Firefox 58

Post by untog » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 7:51 PM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #34

jherdman wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likewise, but I've found the performance on a few key websites to be awful. Namely Facebook, and often Google Inbox. Another consequence of switching has been difficulty in using things like my Apple TV or Chromecast (e.g. casting a video to my TV), or using my Mac's media keys to control Google Play Music.

Google inbox is terrible on ff, this is vendor lock-in by google, the new MS

Post by raguuu » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

zintinio5 wrote: post #68

potch wrote: post #8

I wrote up a more detailed look at some of what's in Firefox 58: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/firefox-58-the-quantum-era...

How does one end up in a position to do this work at Mozilla? I'm currently looking for a new SWE role, would absolutely love to work on Firefox.

Post by _pdp_ » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 7:55 PM UTC

tdumitrescu wrote: post #22

k__ wrote: post #7

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.

Yeah, the browser has gotten snappier. But then I pop open the dev tools and they're unbearably slow - like I simply can't do real dev work in FF anymore, have to use Chrome. It may be that I tend to do a lot of development with Web Components, which FF still doesn't have natively (though Custom Elements are live in 59/nightly, right?!), but either way it seems like a failing of the tooling that it beachballs for 5-1…

Post by blinkingled » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 7:56 PM UTC

AtticusTheGreat wrote: post #77

blinkingled wrote: post #40

Since release 57 I have almost exclusively started using Firefox on Android. I know most quantum enhancements aren't yet in the Android version but something improved leaps and bounds at 57. The ability to use sync and various privacy enhancing extensions mean FF has a great appeal on Android. Now only if they can fix the remaining URL load delays and improve video playback compatibility it'll be a great experience.

I did try Firefox 57 on my Android phone and found the scrolling to be unpleasant with lots of artifacts and stuttering. It's still a much better experience with the mobile version of Chrome.

Post by godelski » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 7:58 PM UTC

nick_name wrote: post #62

godelski wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does anyone else get videos that show as like a pink or green screen and can still hear audio? I've experienced this on multiple machines with both Linux and Windows. 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.

Hey @godelski, I had that issue in Firefox 57, but it seemed to have gone away with 58. Just FYI - I tried altering a bunch of `about:config` non-default settings, but none of them helped. Thanks.