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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 jhasse »

the_duke wrote: post #346
floatboth wrote: post #268

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, it's really weird that you STILL have to force enable it through about:config. Come on Mozilla… Mesa 17 has arguably the best OpenGL implementation ever.

I can confirm that the 57 beta has acceleration enabled by default on Linux.

Are you sure? You need to check about:support, as the checkbox in the settings does nothing on Linux. It still says

HW_COMPOSITING blocked by default: Acceleration blocked by platform

for me with Nightly (57) on Linux.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by snaky »

gepoch wrote: post #49

Lots of comments from people suffering issues and missing their favorite plugins, so I thought I'd jump in as a former Chrome user. Firefox quantum is really very good. This is the first time in a long time that I've been able to entertain switching browsers. It is at least on par with the speed of chrome, and since I'm moving from chrome, I'm not really missing any Firefox plugins too much. I've been able to port my…

> Mozilla has sacrificed some of its existing userbase to make a grab at Chrome's. It's worked in my case, but they've definitely upended the environments of a lot of people. I hope it pays off for them

Yeah, it always pays off to ditch the core of the user base chasing after the fresh new users, chasing after the main competitor - on their field and by their rules, look at Blackberry.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Ambroos »

Vinnl wrote: post #34
Ambroos wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this a known issue? https://cl.ly/1b2O1g231m47/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-26%20at%2... I'm on High Sierra and the UI at the top seems to do something really really weird...

I haven't encountered this, but it'd be great if you could report it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ Who knows, the fix might make it in time for the actual release.

Looks like it was already reported! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401957

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by snaky »

drdaeman wrote: post #282
Brakenshire wrote: post #169

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Pocket is now owned by Mozilla, and is going to be open sourced. What separates that from any other functionality built into the browser, for instance Firefox Sync or Autocomplete?

1. Firefox Accounts & Sync is a terrible mess. Its security is still broken[1] and it's insanely over-engineered[2]. I really wish it shouldn't have existed, and instead Mozilla would've focused on providing an API to build a synchronization service upon. And then, whatever - their services could've been an pre-bundled extension. 2. I believe all of those SaaSes (i.e. Firefox Screenshots, too) shouldn't belong to the…

Add to this things like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812348 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814801 to make the whole picture even worse.

Did you open-sourced your alternative self-hosted Accounts & Sync implementation?

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by zeep »

khc wrote: post #348
zeep wrote: post #64

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…

does extensions.legacy.enabled actually work for you? I set it to true but lastpass is still disabled

No it didnt... but I started from a fresh profile and I thought that it was why

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by jug »

This is very nice. I have always _wanted_ to use Firefox because a web built much for the community is best used on a browser built by the community with no corporate influences such as trying to push their own "web platform". It's just that it has felt far too bulky compared to Chrome.

But yeah, this is quite workable, and Quantum WebRender hasn't even landed yet. By Firefox 60 we should have even more substantial (i.e. noticeable) improvements.

It's scrolling very smoothly, and the browser rendering sites doesn't seem to impact typing into the adress bar much. It elegantly passes my personal little stress test with multiple Periscope tabs running at once, something that near killed Firefox 56. Honestly it doesn't even really flinch, and that's on an aging laptop, but an 8 core at that, so I guess the Quantum components so far in Firefox are happy about this.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by offa »

Ambroos wrote: post #29
Vinnl wrote: post #2

More info about Firefox Quantum (aka Firefox 57) here: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum/ (Also appears to feature an updated logo.)

Is this a known issue? https://cl.ly/1b2O1g231m47/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-26%20at%2... I'm on High Sierra and the UI at the top seems to do something really really weird...

Switching the theme from the Default to Dark/Light does the trick for me, but yeah, definitely a minor nuisance.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by ivanfon »

doktrin wrote: post #102
Vinnl wrote: post #74

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Vimperator, unfortunately, appears to be one of the few extensions that can never be fully ported, as it made use of API's that implied a security risk.

Very interesting, that does appear to be the case - likewise for VimFx. From what I gather, the go-to Vim plugin after this year will be Vimium (which I currently use on Chrome), although it hasn't yet been ported to FF 57.

I’m sad that I’ll have to stop using VimFX, it was the best Vim plugin I could find. It was lightweight and did just what it had to (I absolutely hate the custom search/address bar thing in Vimium). My alternative right now is Saka Key. I hate the default keybindings, but you can customize them all you want. The thing I miss the most right now is being able to focus on the address bar (pressing “o” with VimFX). I’m not sure if it’s possible with the current WebExtensions API.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by ivanfon »

baby wrote: post #16
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #3

I've been trying out the nightly versions of 57 and it's really fast. Would recommend people try out the Beta.

Is Tree Style Tab working on it? I've disabled updates until further notice.

It’s been working great in the latest Firefox developer edition.
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