Is this the one that makes you launch Chrome for Hangouts/GoToMeeting/etc?
Because why won't you then use Chrome in the first place?
Firefox Quantum
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Re: Firefox Quantum
#22Firefox has definitely been getting better over the past year or two.
I've always used Firefox, since Chrome doesn't have the ability to scroll through tabs, they just get smaller and smaller on the tab bar. I've never understood why the feature hasn't been added, it seems pretty minor. Firefox also lazy loads existing tabs on startup.
Anyway, for a while, around 2011-2012, Firefox had terrible memory and stability issues. It's good that they've largely been fixed. Firefox is the most extensible and free browser, I'm surprised more tech people don't use it, considering the tech communities love for power and the ability to customise things.
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#23I've been using it (beta) for a while on a win10 desktop.
No perf issues to report.
Launch time is now on par with others.
I'll consider going back from chromium to FF on macOS after the mainstream release.
Happy to see some love going on for ff, which I used to love back then, BC (before chrome) era.
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#24I switched to Beta 3 weeks ago just to run version 57 and I couldn't be happier on my Windows 10 machine. Firefox starts much faster, is more responsive and I haven't seen a single crash.
However, on my Mac, I really don't like the default black chrome. It just looks as out of place as Firefox always did on the Mac, which is just sad :-(
And, I miss Self-Destructing Cookies (SDC). Cookie-AutoDelete (CAD) is fine, but the white list of SDC was automatically shared with Firefox Sync, while CAD settings aren't.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#25> I’m sure Firefox 57 will also get a fair share of sour feedback and comments written in uppercase.
I might be part of that crowd (though in lowercase) because none of the WebExtensions mouse gesture addons work on macOS/Linux anymore due to this outstanding bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1360278
No official dev seems to look into it, and the community patches from the tracker only fix the Linux case.
Re: Firefox Quantum
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mine is 57.0 as well. If you go to preferences there is a "restart to update firefox" button. Whack that after installing the beta and you get the release version. I really like this. I've dumped Chrome and Safari entirely from daily use.
>and you get the release version Apparently that's not the final release version. Despite not having a beta/RC version is not the final version, that one will come next week.
Thanks for the heads up - appreciated!
Re: Firefox Quantum
#27I switched to Beta 3 weeks ago just to run version 57 and I couldn't be happier on my Windows 10 machine. Firefox starts much faster, is more responsive and I haven't seen a single crash. However, on my Mac, I really don't like the default black chrome. It just looks as out of place as Firefox always did on the Mac, which is just sad :-( And, I miss Self-Destructing Cookies (SDC). Cookie-AutoDelete (CAD) is fine, but…
Anyway, congratulations Mozilla already for this great work. I'll try to convert friends and family back from Chrome ASAP.
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#28I switched to Beta 3 weeks ago just to run version 57 and I couldn't be happier on my Windows 10 machine. Firefox starts much faster, is more responsive and I haven't seen a single crash. However, on my Mac, I really don't like the default black chrome. It just looks as out of place as Firefox always did on the Mac, which is just sad :-( And, I miss Self-Destructing Cookies (SDC). Cookie-AutoDelete (CAD) is fine, but…
The compact light theme looks native enough for me (at least it's so minimal that there's little to offend there ;)
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#29So the "fast" nightly features are now in "regular" Firefox?
I tried the nightly a few weeks ago and it would always forget my logins so it was essentially unusable.
But the performance was much much better than with Chrome, so I would like to switch to Firefox :)
Re: Firefox Quantum
#30It'd be great if I could remove this ugly bar at the bottom of url suggestions input field (the one with "Search XXX in..." and search engine icons if any).