That took long enough. I used Firefox primarily for a year or so starting in 2015 but chrome won me back real quick. Let's be honest, Chrome was to only good browser. Hopefully quantum changes this.
Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
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Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
#92For people who use password managers, beware that lastpass's extension is not compatible with the new release. Found that out the hard way.
The lack of LastPass is a pain, however it made me discover BitWarden, which is free, open source, has 2FA, has working firefox & chrome plugins, and iOS/Android apps. It is also trivial to import your LastPass data into bitwarden. It's definitely worth giving it a try.
(The LastPass firefox app also seemed to use a lot of CPU for some reason, I have no idea how that was possible?)
Note: It doesn't support all of LastPass features, like per-website extra data, which may be a problem for some users. There's also no Safari plugin.
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#93As 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…
Chrome is an insane ram hog. It is inexcusable to be using >400MB per tab, but I see that all the time.
I don't know how much my tabs use, but it isn't 400MB or I'd have ran out of RAM a hundred tabs ago...
Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
#94Can 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 t…
WebRender, last I heard, is targeting 58. It's certainly not in this release. I use it in nightly via the config flag; it is pretty great but there are still some glitches from time to time.
Actually Nightly is what I'm using. Is there a page where I can see the types of speed advantages that pcwalton showed off in his talk?
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
WebRender, last I heard, is targeting 58. It's certainly not in this release. I use it in nightly via the config flag; it is pretty great but there are still some glitches from time to time.
Actually Nightly is what I'm using. Is there a page where I can see the types of speed advantages that pcwalton showed off in his talk?
Oh sorry, you said config flag, I haven't tried this yet.
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#96It is so fast. The last time i was this amazed was my first ride in a Tesla P85.
Excellent job Mozilla.
Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
#97As 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…
Nightly has been amazing. I’m just waiting on LastPass before I switch full time.
Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
#98For people who use password managers, beware that lastpass's extension is not compatible with the new release. Found that out the hard way.
The lack of LastPass is a pain, however it made me discover BitWarden, which is free, open source, has 2FA, has working firefox & chrome plugins, and iOS/Android apps. It is also trivial to import your LastPass data into bitwarden. It's definitely worth giving it a try. (The LastPass firefox app also seemed to use a lot of CPU for some reason, I have no idea how that was possible?) Note: It doesn't support all of Las…
Bitwarden also doesn’t support per login “re-enter master password”.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
57 really is a huge improvement, I can no longer feel any difference in responsiveness between firefox and chrome.
In some ways I think firefox has actually surpassed chrome (e.g. on my xps 13 touchpad scrolling is much more responsive/smoother in firefox)
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#100> Firefox Quantum enhances Firefox’s integration with Pocket, the read-it-later app that Mozilla acquired last year. When you open a new tab, you’ll see currently trending web pages recommended by Pocket users so you won’t miss out on what’s hot online, as well as your top sites. That doesn't sound good. What are the reasons for having bloatware bundled in instead releasing them as separate add-on or installation opt…
Because to a lot of people, it's useful functionality, not bloatware.
Truly, "bloat" can only be defined as "a feature I personally do not use right now".