Mozilla launches Firefox 46, as dull of an update as they come

[Ascaris]

thats the only reason I took so long to switch to begin with. I don't want to use chrome, but I need to be able to open a youtube video without my browser hanging for 15 seconds.

I use Firefox with a lot of extensions (25 at the moment), and I've never seen that on Youtube, not even when I have 100+ tabs open. Have you tried the 64-bit edition? In my experience, it's far better than the 32-bit, and has been since the first beta release of the 64-bit version for Windows.

It's frustrating indeed to see Firefox trying to be Chrome, but to me, it's still the only choice. I wish I didn't have to use addons like Classic theme Restorer to fix Moz's many boneheaded design decisions in the last few years, but at least once I've done that, I can still get the UI and features I require. I used to use Pale Moon (before FF was available in a beta 64-bit edition for Windows), but ever since it started to identify itself as Pale Moon rather than FF to addons, many of the ones I use haven't worked, and FF x64 (beta or otherwise) has soundly beaten every x64 Firefox derivative (Waterfox, Cyberfox, Pale Moon) in performance (as measured by Peacemaker).

 

[mike1959]

Here I'm using Win10 on a Lenovo Yoga 500, intel i3 + 4GB RAM, a fairly ordinary setup.
Firefox ver 46.0, 32 bit, and Adblock plus, and on Youtube, if I click on a linked video on the right hand side of screen, it takes +- 1 second to open and start playing. Don't really see any problems whatever.

 

[oldikes]

I use Firefox with a lot of extensions (25 at the moment), and I've never seen that on Youtube, not even when I have 100+ tabs open. Have you tried the 64-bit edition? In my experience, it's far better than the 32-bit, and has been since the first beta release of the 64-bit version for Windows.

Yea its what I've been using. Ive tried a bunch of stuff but when it gets to the point where I have to spend too long a time messing with files (copy the profile, etc etc etc) and reinstalling the browser just to get it to function normally, I gotta switch. I already have too much stuff to do, and who knows how often thatll keep happening.