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...
Not in any notes: they removed the Android widget. Coincidentally, so did DuckDuckGo today. :(
Firefox 58
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Re: Firefox 58
#102Switched 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.
I also switched back to firefox a few weeks ago and I'm not impressed.
* Performance is really not that good. I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive).
* Scroll-wheel to switch between tabs is gone.
* No multi-tab management (shift/ctrl+click to select and move multiple tabs) like Chrome has
* Firefox's UI on Android is utter garbage, so I haven't been able to switch there which defeats the point of having browser sync. [it leaves zero space for the url bar, all taken by useless buttons which Chrome cleverly hides under the menu button]
Re: Firefox 58
#103Switched 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.
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.
I guess this is bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417442 ? If so that looks like it’ll be fixed in 59.
Re: Firefox 58
#104FF 57 was much snappier on my Mac than on Chrome, but it occasionally turned into a CPU hog and got the fans spinning full blast. Did anyone else experience that?
Yes, I simply couldn't use it because it drained my macbook battery too quickly. I just updated to 58, but it seems to still be a problem.
Same here - first thing I did when v58 came out was check to see if CPU usage was lowered, which it unfortunately wasn't.
I see no reason why CPU activity should spike to 20% every few seconds with one blank tab open and no extensions enabled.
Re: Firefox 58
#105Don't know else to shout this from the roof tops, but it's a biiiig deal in terms of browsing happiness: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/another-win-for-tracking-protec... ^ That blog post was written when my Firefox Nightly was what is v58 today.
That speed comes at the cost of delaying or breaking existing sites, fwiw
Such as?
Re: Firefox 58
#106Switched 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.
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.
We've seen this on select AMD (https://bugzil.la/1417442) and Nvidia (https://bugzil.la/1422850) video cards. What GPU and driver version are you running?
Re: Firefox 58
#107Does FF 58 have anything like the Request Policy extension (which broke as of FF 57, last I heard)?
I've been using uMatrix for this job for a while now. I find it much better than I ever found RequestPolicy, but of course YMMV.
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#108Font rendering any better in 58?
I was trying Firefox 57 after release on OS X 10.11.6 and it seems like it was giving me eye strain which I strongly presume is the fort rendering. Firefox 52 and Chrome 63 seem to be unaffected.
Re: Firefox 58
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Tab Center was reimplemented using WebExtension APIs and released as Tab Center Redux: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re...
Re: Firefox 58
#110Earlier 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
Google Inbox is also pretty terrible on chrome for me, i'm not sure i'd blame vendor lock-in.