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Re: Firefox Quantum

#11

Post by agumonkey »

imple wrote: post #7
marksellers wrote: post #6

Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox: The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare. When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query +…

https://i.imgur.com/hWl9YR8.png A screenshot from my screen just now, running FF58 and Chrome side by side. Firefox's menu bar is smaller.

It's probably a subjective proportion thing. Pure metrics aren't necessary what people "measure", maybe the border above tabs is not seen as wasted space. Same for perf, Firefox might be faster in tests, but chrome has an overall feel of speed is "better".

Re: Firefox Quantum

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Post by Newky »

This release is amazing, I was slowly moving everything to Chrome from Firefox over the last year-ish.

This really changes Firefox. Everything is incredibly snappy, at times more responsive that chrome.

The small amount of addons I use are now available.

Can't wait to get this by default in Ubuntu.

Re: Firefox Quantum

#13

Post by daleharvey »

marksellers wrote: post #6

Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox: The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare. When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query +…

I just tested Windows and OSX, when opening new tabs and windows the address bar gets focus

Re: Firefox Quantum

#14

Post by Yliaho »

I've recently jumped on the Quantum beta from years of using Chrome, and so far, the experience has been really enjoyable.

But please, for the love of everything that is holy, let developers customize scrollbar styles. Thank you.

Re: Firefox Quantum

#15

Post by agumonkey »

zaarn wrote: post #4

I've been on Firefox Nightly for a while now and the difference to my FF56 vanilla install, it behaves much more like chrome and has become my daily driver. It can and has fully replaced Chrome (after the KeepassHTTP Connector was ported) in all matters (development, daily usage, hackernews).

I used nightly regularly, then stopped. With quantum I used it again. It has shown strong improvements, massive ones, I spent two weeks in nightly. But at point it has perf issues that I don't have with chrome. I'll stay on it for a while to see if it goes away.

Re: Firefox Quantum

#16

Post by mariusmg »

I have been using it for 1 month now and have to say Quantum is the first time i have been actually impressed with the speed of a browser. Great job Mozilla, hopefully some Chrome only users will at least try Firefox now.

Re: Firefox Quantum

#17

Post by marksellers »

imple wrote: post #7
marksellers wrote: post #6

Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox: The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare. When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query +…

https://i.imgur.com/hWl9YR8.png A screenshot from my screen just now, running FF58 and Chrome side by side. Firefox's menu bar is smaller.

Thanks! Hadn't tried on Windows.

Re: Firefox Quantum

#18

Post by deno »

I only wish Firefox would give some love to Mesa. GPU acceleration is still off by default on open source graphic stack on Linux (RadeonSI/Intel).

Re: Firefox Quantum

#19

Post by marksellers »

daleharvey wrote: post #13
marksellers wrote: post #6

Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox: The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare. When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query +…

I just tested Windows and OSX, when opening new tabs and windows the address bar gets focus

I guess it's just Linux then. Ah well, I hope you enjoy it anyway. I'm still going to donate to Mozilla at the end of the year. If nothing else, competition is great and their documentation is amazing.

Re: Firefox Quantum

#20

Post by flohofwoe »

marksellers wrote: post #6

Maybe these are silly things to complain about with fellow techies, but the things that prevent me from switching to Firefox: The menu bars are enormous even on a compact theme. Bigger than on Chrome. I only have so much vertical space to spare. When opening a new window, the address bar isn't the first thing to receive focus, unlike on Chrome. With Chrome, I just bang out WINKEY + C + H + R + ENTER + part of query +…

Looks like in Firefox v56 you need to change the start page to "blank" in the preferences (edit: to get the address bar focused after opening a window).

However in current Nightly (which is on v58) the input focus goes straight to the address bar, even in the default settings, so looks like more users complained ;)

I'm just using Ctrl-L to focus the address bar, works on all operating systems and browsers.

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