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So what is the ETA for release of Webrender in Firefox now?
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It was never that slow as some people declare it to be.
Yeah, it positively was , and it would lock the browser up with misbehaving tabs. I managed to use Fx50 (or so, I forget the exact release) for about a day before going "nope, back to Chrome, it might chew batteries like crazy but at least it's fast." Firefox has significantly improved and deserves praise for it. Rewriting history to always be at war with Eastchromea is unnecessary.
I've been om FF the while time and I'm impatient.
In the other hand I've no reason not to believe it when so many people report performance issues.
My best guess is a combination of different browsing habits and/or different hardware/os.
(My browsing habits are mostly hn, local news and pages I work on and I've had decent hardware running various versions of Linux and Windows.)
Anyone running Quantum on Linux with a 4k monitor? I switched from Chrome for a couple months but the lag/jank/choppiness (especially when scrolling) finally drove me back to Chrome. Still loving the new FF on my HD screens though.
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Yeah, it positively was , and it would lock the browser up with misbehaving tabs. I managed to use Fx50 (or so, I forget the exact release) for about a day before going "nope, back to Chrome, it might chew batteries like crazy but at least it's fast." Firefox has significantly improved and deserves praise for it. Rewriting history to always be at war with Eastchromea is unnecessary.
"It doesn't work on my machine" is a new one. The benchmarks have always been respectable. I'm sure there are some configurations that made it work poorly, and that's a problem. That isn't true in general.
I too found Firefox pre-57 slow and switched to Chrome. That was because the user experience was slow, slow to open, slow in UI responsiveness, slow to make websites actually usable. Everything had this UI lag feel.
I'm sure it benchmarked fine, but I am a human, not a JavaScript benchmark.
Switched back to Firefox a few months ago and I'm blown away by the speed. Last time I had this feeling after switching to Chrome from Firefox years ago, haha. Besides videos everything works like a charm. Somehow some videos won't start and sometimes I get a message that the video format could not be read, never had this issue in Chrome.
Edit: Experienced this under FF57, unknown under 58 because I just updated it.
This also usually happens with things like Facebook videos, but would less often happen with Youtube.
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Just wanted to say you're not alone, I'm on 56 for the same reasons.
55 here because 56 breaks Mozilla's own Tab Center add-on. I see no mention of new APIs for add-ons in the release notes...
Mozilla dropped support for Tab Center a while before Quantum IIRC. Another addon took its place, but then was dropped by its developer with Quantum. Supposedly [1] will allow transition from the older addons. I'm looking forward to finding out once 59 is out.
[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/ [2]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423725
^ That blog post was written when my Firefox Nightly was what is v58 today.
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"It doesn't work on my machine" is a new one. The benchmarks have always been respectable. I'm sure there are some configurations that made it work poorly, and that's a problem. That isn't true in general.
The person above said "slow," you assume they meant artificial JavaScript benchmarks but I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intent. I too found Firefox pre-57 slow and switched to Chrome. That was because the user experience was slow, slow to open, slow in UI responsiveness, slow to make websites actually usable. Everything had this UI lag feel. I'm sure it benchmarked fine, but I am a human, not a JavaScript benchmark.
I don't know how to tell the difference between "Firefox is slow" and "Firefox has an undeserved reputation for being slow."
I love Firefox and switched back from Chrome with FF 57, but I really wish they had a Task Manager like Chrome does, so I can spot and kill misbehaving tabs rather than have all my tabs seem to steadily slow down. It's the only feature I miss from Chrome, and hope it appears in FF soon.