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Jeez FF really stepping up the game. Seems like 32 was released just yesterday.

I'm not sure if there are any performance issues since I switched to FF about a year ago when bought new laptop with SSD and 16 gigs of ram it's as fast as Chrome. As for webdev tools, they are not worse, you are just too used to webkit ones. I might even say that FF has better dev tools because you can modify request and re-send it.

I switched because Google is trying to integrate Google too much into Chrome. That's definitely not something I look in a browser since I would like it to be independent and not spy on what I type/do.

Anyway, if anyone who is contributing to FF reading this I just want to thank you for best browser ever.

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> Seems like 32 was released just yesterday

Every six weeks, as it's been for like three years now...

> Anyway, if anyone who is contributing to FF reading this I just want to thank you for best browser ever.

Thank you. The web is full of criticism, so it's nice to get compliments sometimes.

Thanks :)

Yoric is an engineer at Mozilla. "Thanks" seems relevant and the downvotes seem unnecessary.

> I'm not sure if there are any performance issues

I also use Firefox on a MacBook Pro(2014), I don't know if this existed before or not but, under battery > Apps using significant enery, Firefox is one of em', opening the same exact tabs on Safari doesn't show safari on the list

is this because apps that come with Apple are not included in the list or is Safari better at Energy consumption?

I believe it's the later: safari is really good at not wasting energy. Anandtech looked into this not too long ago: http://www.anandtech.com/show/8327/browser-faceoff-battery-l...

Yeah, Safari is good at it. I seem to remember that Apple has had battery-consumption measurement instrumentation that they only made available to outside developers recently.

We have an ongoing project to make Firefox very good, too, but as all big projects, this might take time.

For what its worth, Chrome does the same thing and has for quite some time.

You still can't edit JS like you can in chrome devtools. This is such a boon and a basic thing, really, that I can't switch until they add it. Aside from that, yeah, FF is getting pretty good.

Have you filed a bug on the topic? I'm sure the devtools team would be interested.

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