Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
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#2More info about Firefox Quantum (aka Firefox 57) here: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum/
(Also appears to feature an updated logo.)
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#3I've been trying out the nightly versions of 57 and it's really fast. Would recommend people try out the Beta.
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#4I just wish they would have filled in more missing APIs before mandating web extensions.
For example there is no way to do a gestures extension that doesn't rely on buggy DOM injection.
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#5Looks amazing. I hope I will finally be able to ditch Chrome!
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#6I just wish they would have filled in more missing APIs before mandating web extensions. For example there is no way to do a gestures extension that doesn't rely on buggy DOM injection.
Yeah, I agree. And it's a shame, because it looks like these features are coming to web extensions (e.g. see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1384515 which tracks the api needed for "tab groups"). It just won't be there for launch.
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#7Running Safari 11 on High Sierra and got a 90 on the speedometer 2.0 test referenced. Why are they bragging about a 66?
For reference, ran the test with Firefox Quantum on the same machine and got a 68.
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#8I just wish they would have filled in more missing APIs before mandating web extensions. For example there is no way to do a gestures extension that doesn't rely on buggy DOM injection.
Yes, it's a real shame that it seems like they don't even care about extensions anymore, and therefore forces me to stay on the older versions and miss out on the new and welcome improvements. I'd be more ok with their switch to web extensions if they had included more powerful API:s, even if they're not available in other browsers.
My developer edition recently got upgraded to 57, and Greasemonkey stopped working. Reading what the developer writes it seems as they are going to rewrite the whole extension from scratch, with a lot of the functionality left out because it's no longer possible to do.
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#9I just wish they would have filled in more missing APIs before mandating web extensions. For example there is no way to do a gestures extension that doesn't rely on buggy DOM injection.
Having gestures / hotkeys fail on a home page is infuriating as well. Especially if you just want your home page to be an empty page.
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#10Couldn't the minor speed differences in the comparison video [1] in the post be attributed to the variable latencies of server responses? Or is that accounted for somehow?