Have a look at the Phoronix benchamrk of Firefox 57. Not really impressive. Still a lot of catching up to chrome.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=firefox-...
Firefox Quantum
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Re: Firefox Quantum
#52While it's going to be a great release (have been trying the Quantum beta on side), I'm very sad to see many of the extremely useful extensions that will just stop working as soon as I switch.
Can anyone comment.on whether tree style tabs has been ported, or commented on if it will be?
Re: Firefox Quantum
#53While it's going to be a great release (have been trying the Quantum beta on side), I'm very sad to see many of the extremely useful extensions that will just stop working as soon as I switch.
Can anyone comment.on whether tree style tabs has been ported, or commented on if it will be?
Looks like it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
I'm using Firefox Nightly and it let's me install it.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
Certainly not the case as far as opening new tabs goes on my machine, an 1.9Ghz with 4Gb RAM. Firefox opens the new tab instantly while Chrome has a noticeable delay. The same with closing tabs, especially heavy ones. Also Chrome takes just a little bit longer to start than the latest Firefox, although I didn't actually measure this. I think the general perception that Chrome is fast is more a group-think at this poi…
Trust me, I use "old" core 2 machines, right now on a 1st gen i5 and I regularly cringe at firefox, whenever I run chrome, something lifts off my mind.
I don't charge firefox, it was resetted non long ago, ublock origin and containers (I removed youtube extensions and the likes). Still twitter hungs enough for me to feel annoyed.
I'm not a speed addict, I even love slowness when done right [1], but I rate firefox nightly a little below chrome (stable or canary) at that point.
[1] I use an HP48 calculator, the thing was slower in terms of UI than all its competition but it was such a nice ux design you rarely care about it.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#55... and almost all my extensions will cease to work. 16 legacy, 4 ready for 57. a few of them i use very often: automatic save folder, save file to, video downloadhelper, downthemall!, search by image for google, image zoom, copy links
Set extensions.legacy.enabled to true and enjoy. Do not know how long that will work though, but all mine seem to be working.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#56While it's going to be a great release (have been trying the Quantum beta on side), I'm very sad to see many of the extremely useful extensions that will just stop working as soon as I switch.
Can anyone comment.on whether tree style tabs has been ported, or commented on if it will be?
It practically has, although they're still working on an API to hide the tab bar - until then, you'll have to hide it by editing a local CSS file.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#57While it's going to be a great release (have been trying the Quantum beta on side), I'm very sad to see many of the extremely useful extensions that will just stop working as soon as I switch.
Can anyone comment.on whether tree style tabs has been ported, or commented on if it will be?
Tree style tab has been ported, it's a version that's a bit rushed but it does the job.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a bit misleading. When you maximize Chrome's window the space above the tabs disappears, making Chrome's footprint smaller than that of Firefox. Though I still wonder why Chrome's menu bar enlarges when the window is not maximized. Edit: A screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/yabXSEz.png
Maximized browsers on wide screen monitors aren't very usable though, you end up with loads of pointless whitespace. The browser works best with a roughly square viewport on 1080p, or tending towards portrait on 1440p.
Good reason to use Firefox then, and its ability to have side tabs:
Re: Firefox Quantum
#59... and almost all my extensions will cease to work. 16 legacy, 4 ready for 57. a few of them i use very often: automatic save folder, save file to, video downloadhelper, downthemall!, search by image for google, image zoom, copy links
You can switch to Firefox ESR to keep using your extensions and give the extension authors more time. ESR 52 will be supported with fixes until June. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/
And in June 2018...then what?
Sorry - just very tired of people tossing out ESR as a solution to this problem. It isn’t - at best, it just kicks the can down the road. At worst, it’s continuing to support a company that’s shown utter disregard for a huge portion of its user base by the way they’ve handled XUL deprecation. No one’s saying XUL didn’t need to go - it did. What’s frustrating is the complete removal of it without before providing a viable replacement and the accompanying big shrug / middle finger to anyone who relies on XUL-based extensions and can’t switch to the neutered WE version (see Tile Tabs and Tree Style Tab).
As a long-time Firefox user, I’m extremely disappointed by the way Mozilla has handled this. I’ll use 57 for dev tools and bookmark sync, but Waterfox or Vivaldi will be my daily driver.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#60I switched to the beta a couple of months ago, and it's just better than Chrome in every way. It's both faster and seems to have better memory usage.
The Nighty version will always be the best version ;)