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Has anyone had poor performance on mac? I notice that my fans tend to spin up quite frequently with normal browsing. I didn't really have this issue with chrome.
> The point of parallelization is to harness the full power of the CPU. If you don’t want that try reducing the content process limit near the bottom of general options.
[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-h...]
And no gestures if you are on Mac or Linux.
The main thing keeping me tied to Chrome is how it syncs passwords, bookmarks and history. Is Firefox's sync as good?
Yes, and you own the private key.
EDIT: Okay, tested again; it depends heavily on the website you do this on.
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Android will get Quantum with 58, in approximately 6 weeks time. https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/31/firefox-58-for-android-ena... But even without Quantum Firefox on Android is way faster than Chrome because it supports ad blocking plugins.
Yeah, I can't wait for FF58 on Android. TBH FF on Android has felt a little choppy, even with ublock origin enabled. The Chromium-based Firefox Focus feels faster, but too bad it doesn't support extensions. Hopefully FF58 will be the best of both worlds on Android soon.
The main thing keeping me tied to Chrome is how it syncs passwords, bookmarks and history. Is Firefox's sync as good?
It works for me. I keep two instances of Firefox (Release and Nighly) on my work computer (Windows 10), Nightly on my phone (Android) and a couple computers at home running Firefox ESR (Debian). No problem whatsoever, even with such an heterogenous setup. Do you have any particular need that you think steers from the normal and that Chrome does currently serve? Because for my use case, everything works perfectly.
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Tree Style Tabs was the only blocker for me, and I was amazed that it was possible to recreate under the new API. I use both Firefox and Chrome, but for very different purposes. In Chrome, I have 20-50 tabs spread across two windows. In Firefox, 400+. Tree Style Tabs is necessary for how I use Firefox. My backup plan was staying on an older version, possibly indefinitely.
400 tabs? 400 ? I'm sorry if I sound a little condescending, but have you considered using bookmarks instead? I cannot even imagine a workflow where four flippin' hundred active tabs are needed.
(Personally, I believe a good bookmark-like system could solve most reasons I have many tabs. But I neither know what exactly that'd look like nor do I want to spend the time developing it, so tabs it is)
Asked this a week ago in anticipation for the release but got no response.[1] Whatever happened with Cliqz? Is it still a part of the release? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15643154
It has never been part of the release - it was part of a test rollout to 1% of German users (not sure if that was of an actual or a beta release).
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...
At last LastPass has released a new version! (FF Developer Edition has passed beyond the grace period so only allows modern extensions. I've been using Chrome just for lastpass for months!)
This is what's holding me back from changing mostly. Honestly, lastpass is great for me but I almost wish built in browser password managers were better. I used to use Google Chrome's password manager but one time I synced with another computer or phone and everything got erased and there was no undoing it. I lost everything. Maybe syncing is better now but after that sync that thought "hey let's make sure everything…