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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 torstenvl »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #22

Firefox, I love you, but you and my 15" rMBP (with 4k Dell external monitor) simply don't get along: https://i.imgur.com/rByz7zS.png I don't what causes this, but in the last 2 years it's gotten worse and with Quantum the CPU usage is even higher. Chrome and Safari don't have this issue.

I also have very poor performance with my 2015 rMBP and external Dell 4K display, but it's almost as bad without the display.

Although performance is greatly improved (and, seriously, the developers should be proud of the progress), there's still a lot of work to be done. There's significant lag in even non-network UI (e.g., highlighting the row under the cursor in about:config lags behind the mouse cursor by almost a second).

As much respect as I have for the developers for this progress, I still can't really use software that makes me feel like I'm intoxicated.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by kpwags »

I made the switch from Chrome to Firefox a couple of months ago primarily because of the open source and privacy aspects.

I have to say I was impressed by the speed improvements, and since I started using Firefox Nightly a couple months ago, it's gotten even faster. Only complaint is that I don't have a working LastPass plugin yet, though they claim they'll have it released by the time v57 is finalized.

I'd recommend anyone give it a try for a week or two and see what you think.

EDIT: I meant from Chrome to Firefox

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by sf_rob »

gilrain wrote: post #167
imple wrote: post #88

I can throw my hat into the ring and attest to just how great 57 is. I can remember the Australis update coming out and receiving a mixed reaction, but I can't see this update receiving anything but praise. If you've been on Chrome for a while I'd definitely encourage you to try it out. As a developer one small thing that's irked me is the recent removal of the ability for the dev tools to render html responses. Ther…

Just as an aside, I used LastPass for a long time, and held on in discomfort for a while after their acquisition, but their inability to keep their Firefox plugin updated or even working finally convinced me to switch to 1Password. I couldn't be happier, and their Firefox extension is modern and well-done!

LastPass has announced that they will have their extension updated by the time 57 hits release. I'm not sure it's fair to expect them to have something for Beta even if their competitors do.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by interfixus »

I have previously in several HN comments been vocal and adamant about leaving the Mozilla shipwreck before it foundered on the shoals of 57.

And I may have been wrong.

At long last there is meaningful information on addons.mozilla.org about what actually works now, and what doesn't. Looking nowhere near as bleak as it all sounded just a few months ago. I can have my uMatrix, I can have something Flagfoxish, I can open tabs by rightclicking links, I can have meaningful search from context menu. I can have something which doesn't look like Chrome. I may actually give the thing a chance.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by typon »

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…

And here I am just enjoying my Opera. Built-in ad blocker, built-in WhatsApp Web, great UI, ultra fast, supports all modern web technologies.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by pimeys »

bluejekyll wrote: post #97
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…

Nightly has been amazing. I’m just waiting on LastPass before I switch full time.

I'm a quite happy user of KeepPassXC as my password manager. I seriously dislike how LastPass stores the passwords on their servers. And KeepPassXC is open source and actively developed.

https://keepassxc.org/

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by yborg »

So I kind of rely on Xmarks since I have to run on multiple browsers, and afaik it's still the only cross-platform sync system. Unfortunately it's also pretty much abandonware and highly unlikely to get ported to WebExtensions :/ Is there anything else out there that has similar functionality that would be compatible?

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by tinalumfoil »

Bit of an issue for anyone with a touchscreen: No smooth zooming [0].

I eventually switched to firefox regardless, but the issue has been unassigned for five years. Chrome, Edge and Firefox Android have had this feature for as long as I can remember.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789906

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by k__ »

pimeys wrote: post #170
k__ wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I installed that nightly and it really feels fast and modern. They even got rid of that search bar, haha. Only fonts and the scroll bars seem a bit old school compared to Chrome. Also, WhatsApp Web keeps logging me out.

> Also, WhatsApp Web keeps logging me out. This is an issue on my Arch Linux laptop, but not at work using Ubuntu. Both run Firefox nightly. Been going nuts with this issue!

I have it on my Windows7 machine with Firefox Nightly, but not on Chrome.
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