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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by foolfoolz »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #44

As someone that jumped ship from how slow Chrome has gotten and went to Nightly /w Stylo and (CPU threads - 1) e10s processes enabled about 2 monthsish ago... Holy damn Firefox is actually fast. Fair comparison, both having Pocket, uBlock, Evernote, OneNote, Pushbullet, and Bitwarden; neither of them having an extension the other doesn't. Above described Firefox Nightly config vs Chrome Dev. Test machines are a works…

I never thought I'd say this but the 2 fastest bowsers on my computer are Firefox and Edge

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by k__ »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #44

As someone that jumped ship from how slow Chrome has gotten and went to Nightly /w Stylo and (CPU threads - 1) e10s processes enabled about 2 monthsish ago... Holy damn Firefox is actually fast. Fair comparison, both having Pocket, uBlock, Evernote, OneNote, Pushbullet, and Bitwarden; neither of them having an extension the other doesn't. Above described Firefox Nightly config vs Chrome Dev. Test machines are a works…

I switched to Chrome years ago and every time I try Firefox it feels sluggish, so I don't switch back.

Last time was a week ago :\

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by moosingin3space »

mtgx wrote: post #54

That video in the post seems to show Chrome is still significantly faster in half of the tests shown there. How is that possible? From what Servo was initially promising (even 3-4x the speed of old Firefox), it didn't look like Chrome would come close either. Did they make that many compromises when "porting parts from Servo" to Gecko? What's hurting Firefox's performance so much that even after implementing Electrol…

This release only includes the CSS components (Stylo) from Servo. The new rendering architecture, WebRender, is expected to land later.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by zeep »

It is a lot faster for me... so far, the most noticeable example is when using the back/forward buttons on Reddit (it used to reload the whole page every time) but more than half of the extensions that I use haven't been updated yet to work with Firefox 57. Looks like you can enable legacy extensions, about:config?filter=extensions.legacy.enabled, but it appears to be only for installed extensions (you can't add new ones).

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Touche »

Can someone more in the know explain if this uses webrender or not? I thought that it did...

I have to admit that I'm not super impressed with the results here. Based on the talk that pcwalton did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erfnCaeLxSI I was expected it not to just be a little faster than Chrome, but to, like, double the speed, or more.

Is it that these are just not good candidates for showing how much faster than webrender can be? Or has Firefox slowed it down vs. in Servo maybe?

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by jean- »

Mister_Snuggles wrote: post #60

Decided to give this a quick try and WOW! I'm blown away by how fast it is! The speed is incredible! On the downside, two of the most important extensions I use (uMatrix and Enpass) don't work with this version of Firefox. It looks like they're both being updated to support it though, so it's just a matter of waiting til they get published or installing them by hand.

Starting with 1.0.1b5, uMatrix is compatible with the latest Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/versi...

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by bovermyer »

k__ wrote: post #62
DiabloD3 wrote: post #44

As someone that jumped ship from how slow Chrome has gotten and went to Nightly /w Stylo and (CPU threads - 1) e10s processes enabled about 2 monthsish ago... Holy damn Firefox is actually fast. Fair comparison, both having Pocket, uBlock, Evernote, OneNote, Pushbullet, and Bitwarden; neither of them having an extension the other doesn't. Above described Firefox Nightly config vs Chrome Dev. Test machines are a works…

I switched to Chrome years ago and every time I try Firefox it feels sluggish, so I don't switch back. Last time was a week ago :\

This has been my experience also.

However, I'll try Quantum and see if it improves the situation. I really don't want to be using Chrome.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by doktrin »

Wow, it really is blazing fast, and just at a glance I like what they're doing with the dev tools. Unfortunately...

> Vimperator : "This add-on is not compatible with your version of Firefox."

Ouch. Guess I might need to wait a bit to make this my daily driver. All in all, though, I have to say I'm really glad to see Firefox is still solidly in this race - and with a kick ass and quite possibly superior product to boot.

edit :

I didn't realize at the outset that a FF57 version of Vimium was available (link provided by gogoengie) :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-ff/

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