I have been looking to this release and since it is now live what are your guyses impressions of it so far, I put a link to an article that goes somewhat in depth looking at quantum if any of you are interested before checking it out yourselves
Just updated. Watching a youtube video pins all four cores to 80%, the UI is sluggish and plugins no longer work.
So, ehm, not great.
EDIT: Itās really fast when not playing a video, so something is going wrong with the decoding. Just noticed some of my addons have been removed without asking, despite being compatible though.
Am I the only one who canāt seem to relocate the āOpen a new tabā buttonā to the right of my tabs? Itās not something I canāt get used to just a bit odd.
Otherwise it ticked all my expectation boxes (for my craptop at least). Seems to work more efficiently (maybe placebo effect?), I donāt know about battery life since I basically started using it only like 2 hours ago. Overall iām happy. May even replace it on my workstation instead of using it exclusively on my craptop. Also the fact that you canāt rearange the āTop Sitesā section in a new tab is a small annoyance, but maybe thatās just me.
i7-2600k here, watching a video (1080p, 60fps) in ātheater modeā puts one thread at about 80%. Whatās your GPU setup? Iāve got iGPU and Nvidia. It sounds like youāre not getting hardware acceleration on the decode.
The addon binaries may not be compatible.
I donāt know what youāre trying to do. Looks just fine, using the AppImage.
Itās definitely faster. Firefox was a buggy, slow piece of shit prior to this release. Iām not sure that itās faster than chrome, but itās definitely my preference.
Iām running archlinux on an i5-3570k + GTX 1060. Video decode worked fine before so this is definitely a regression
Just reinstalled one of the add-ons (Kee, new version of KeeFox) and it works fine.
Also found some more problems
A website of my university doesnāt display correctly
Dragging around icons in the ācustomizeā menu sometimes makes the icons disapper
@SgtAwesomesauce Firefox decided to use your profile picture for previewing this thread
some of my settings have been reset
On the plus side, I used to have a tab open that wouldnāt show up in the tab bar. That is gone now.
Iām wondering whether my firefox profile is screwed, as Iāve also had problems logging into twitch a couple days before. Iāll do a complete wipe and reset all settings when Iāve got time.
Iāll update on my laptop now, letās see what happens
Canāt say why it wouldnāt work. When I get a chance, Iāll try it on my Arch box (has an AMD GPU, but it should tell us if itās an Nvidia issue or if itās Firefox)
Thanks for the help. Iām not trying to debug this right now though, just wanted to share my experience. Firefox has always had a tendency to self destruct so no point in fixing things without wiping my profile. Iāll make a new thread if any problems persist and I need help.
After opening that site as well as about:support the UI turned sluggish again and the CPU usage went up. Itās not reproducible though and youtube works fine now too. So the CPU usage wasnāt because of the video after all but just a random bug.
Itās my personal lecture schedule. Iād have linked if I could
Just strikes me as odd, especially because it uses the L1T logo for other pages. Itās not like you are the OP either. This only happens on the new tab page, which I never use anyway.
Yeah, I was just amused at the fact that Harold is getting some prime real estate on your browser. I did it to be funny a while back and it just kinda stuck.
I went looking for my old add-on and found something about future add-onās have to use an API?
Application Programming Interface, but I donāt really know what that means to plug-in programmers.
Does that mean they have to use the Firefox API language as opposed to HTML or something?
I find Quantum to be a little faster, snappier comes to mind, but I donāt care enough to run speed tests.
And I like the graphic design changes.
The API is how add-ons communicate with firefox. You can think of it as a language the two use to exchange information. The new firefox has dropped support for the old API and thus requires all add-ons to switch to the new one.
The odd thing in my case is that even add-ons which did support the new API were removed. Also they werenāt just disabled, but silently uninstalled.
Thatās not gonna happen with my add-on even though the general consensus is it should be part of Firefox.
Some guy on reddit figured out how to do it in CSS, but I donāt want to mess with that.
I made some CSS changes once and after hours of work I couldnāt figure out how to save it.
All Roomy Bookmarks Toolbar did was hide the description for items in the bookmark toolbar until you hover over it. I used to have 50 bookmark icons, but without the add-on I can only see 12 icons+description with Quantum.
Iāve wiped my profile and havenāt had any hitches so far. Runs noticeable faster than before
The only thing I really donāt like is that there seems to be no way to get rid of the titlebar. I used to use an add-on for this, but itās no longer compatible because of the API break.
i didnāt have any problems with this release it runs faster and can handle more tabs than before or less memory and even when under heavy load it doesnāt get sluggish as much as it used to be, my legacy addons kept working just fine too. All in all, pretty good release
go to Customize and on the bottom left part uncheck the boxnext to Title bar
The font rendering on some Windows 10 boxes on Intel HD 2000 graphics card (sandybridge) with MS Edge installed is magically really broken in Firefox 57.
Iām still looking at the issue, and Iām no longer sure if itās Microsoft shenanigans or something is just broken.