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Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Vinnl »

AndrewCHM wrote: post #28
eklavya wrote: post #11

I so wanted to use the new Firefox and switch from safari. I searched and was excited to learn there was an extension for integration with keychain on mac only to learn that it was no longer supported :( I understand the push behind web extensions but I don't think there will ever be a keychain integration addon now.

fwiw there is nothing that web extensions lack that would prevent that from working https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Na... exists to allow web extensions to talk with programs on the computer, its up to someone to write the extension and executable for that usecase

Or to port an existing Chrome extension, as they work similarly now.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Vinnl »

zeep wrote: post #26
Vinnl wrote: post #2

More info about Firefox Quantum (aka Firefox 57) here: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum/ (Also appears to feature an updated logo.)

You can see the logo update right away in the other link, I don't see where they talk about it in your link....

Oh haha, oops - I guess I just ignore banner-like images. They don't talk about it in this link, I just noticed it.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Vinnl »

Ambroos wrote: post #29
Vinnl wrote: post #2

More info about Firefox Quantum (aka Firefox 57) here: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/quantum/ (Also appears to feature an updated logo.)

Is this a known issue? https://cl.ly/1b2O1g231m47/Screen%20Shot%202017-09-26%20at%2... I'm on High Sierra and the UI at the top seems to do something really really weird...

I haven't encountered this, but it'd be great if you could report it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Who knows, the fix might make it in time for the actual release.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by virtualwhys »

baby wrote: post #16
EasyTiger_ wrote: post #3

I've been trying out the nightly versions of 57 and it's really fast. Would recommend people try out the Beta.

Is Tree Style Tab working on it? I've disabled updates until further notice.

Yes, thankfully there's a nightly build[1].

Until there's a stable/signed release you have to allow unsigned extensions; set `xpinstall.signatures.required` to false.

To hide the default tab bar I needed to put the following in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xyz123-profile-here/chrome/userChrome.css

    #TabsToolbar > * {
      visibility: collapse;
    }
Some features, like autohide, aren't available with the new web extensions model, but otherwise works the same as pre-57 versions of TST.

[1] http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/xpi/nightly/

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by foepys »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #22

Firefox, I love you, but you and my 15" rMBP (with 4k Dell external monitor) simply don't get along: https://i.imgur.com/rByz7zS.png I don't what causes this, but in the last 2 years it's gotten worse and with Quantum the CPU usage is even higher. Chrome and Safari don't have this issue.

I had the same problem from time to time when a Google search result page was open. Closing it made everything normal again. It'd be interesting to know if that was only me or if others have the same problem.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Yoric »

reikonomusha wrote: post #30
baby wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is Tree Style Tab working on it? I've disabled updates until further notice.

Tree Style Tab is the killer feature for me and some of my scientist coworkers. If this disappears or doesn’t work, I’ll probably use Chrome.

Which would be a shame, now that Firefox is (IMHO) better than Chrome, once again :)

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by vhbit »

karkisuni wrote: post #7

Running Safari 11 on High Sierra and got a 90 on the speedometer 2.0 test referenced. Why are they bragging about a 66? For reference, ran the test with Firefox Quantum on the same machine and got a 68.

Similar results here, Firefox is the slowest one:

- Safari Technology Preview: ~80

- Vivaldi Beta: ~72

- Firefox Beta: ~57

- Firefox Nightly: ~54

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by Yoric »

simlevesque wrote: post #33

Quantum has been broken for me for at least a month. Everytime I click on the right mouse button it goes to the previous page. It never happened on any browser before including Firefox.

That looks weird. Have you filed a bug?

Also, just in case, have you tried without extensions? Because that looks like something that a misbehaving WebExtension could easily do.

Re: Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

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Post by angrygoat »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #22

Firefox, I love you, but you and my 15" rMBP (with 4k Dell external monitor) simply don't get along: https://i.imgur.com/rByz7zS.png I don't what causes this, but in the last 2 years it's gotten worse and with Quantum the CPU usage is even higher. Chrome and Safari don't have this issue.

I wonder if MacOS just isn't that much of a priority for Firefox? Popular but heavy sites like Facebook perform quite poorly relative to Chrome on my (admittedly quite old) early 2013 MBP, but the difference seems to vanish under Linux or Windows.

I'd love to switch to Firefox, I'm not that keen to be running a browser made by a gargantuan advertising agency.

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