{"id":406,"date":"2021-06-08T09:10:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2021-06-08T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T14:10:31","slug":"firefox-updated-2021-06-08-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/firefox-updated-2021-06-08-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"FireFox Updated \u2013 2021-06-08 \u2013 Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well \u2013 this was a bit unexpected. With the various browsers available there was a large market share by Google Chrome. This may not shift as people don\u2019t really care generally, but there were some privacy issues with it that came to light in more recent times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/google-chrome-browser-data\">https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/google-chrome-browser-data<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/03\/20\/stop-using-google-chrome-on-apple-iphone-12-pro-max-ipad-and-macbook-pro\/?sh=68893baa4d08\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/03\/20\/stop-using-google-chrome-on-apple-iphone-12-pro-max-ipad-and-macbook-pro\/?sh=68893baa4d08<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/06\/03\/google-chrome-privacy-lawsuit-could-you-get-a-5000-payout-incognito-mode-class-action\/?sh=73fa17fe1485\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/06\/03\/google-chrome-privacy-lawsuit-could-you-get-a-5000-payout-incognito-mode-class-action\/?sh=73fa17fe1485<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That last link is about a privacy lawsuit. People concerned about that have stepped away, but I doubt it will reduce the number of users by any significant amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always used a number of browsers for various things. Currently installed I have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Edge (no choice here).<\/li><li>Opera.<\/li><li>Google Chrome.<\/li><li>Mozilla FireFox<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>FireFox has been pretty decent, but always had a major issue with closing multiple tabs. If you even had 2 open tabs, once you close the browser it would sit for a while before the \u201cclose multiple tabs and exit\u201d prompt would appear. The workaround would be to close EVERY SINGLE TAB before finally exiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my current tests, I\u2019m glad to say that this issue seems resolved. This is as of 2021-06-08 on FireFox version 89.0. Take it for a test drive if you like. Link is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\">https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well \u2013 this was a bit unexpected. With the various browsers available there was a large market share by Google Chrome. This may not shift as people don\u2019t really care generally, but there were some privacy issues with it that came to light in more recent times. https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/article\/google-chrome-browser-data https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2021\/03\/20\/stop-using-google-chrome-on-apple-iphone-12-pro-max-ipad-and-macbook-pro\/?sh=68893baa4d08 https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/daveywinder\/2020\/06\/03\/google-chrome-privacy-lawsuit-could-you-get-a-5000-payout-incognito-mode-class-action\/?sh=73fa17fe1485 That last link is about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/2021\/06\/firefox-updated-2021-06-08-faster\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FireFox Updated \u2013 2021-06-08 \u2013 Faster<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XHmQ-6y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlosthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}