Firefox Quantum is live, what are your guys impressions

Operating Systems & Open Source
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To be honest Top is pretty buggered these days for modern OOP software with large virtual address space. HTOP does better.

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I don’t have that checkbox. Somebody already suggested doing that on the PGP discord but the box isn’t there for everyone.

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Personally i still prefer Vivaldi.
That said, it really is a nice browser, i can see Mozilla is going in the right direction, i just hope “legacy” applications like IBM’s Trusteer add support for it soon.

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Try the h264ify extension.

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The problem is gone.

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It seems that if you change the top bar, by either adding or deleting buttons, the new tab thing relocates all the way to the right like this,

Screenshot from 2017-11-16 16-24-31

but it seems to fix itself if you just restart firefox.

By this I meant that it uses way less memory and cpu because everything from Eclipse to nautilus runs much smoother on my craptop. That’s why I called it a placebo effect, since I don’t have the actual numbers to prove it, it just feels better.

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You can with this addon. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/new-tab-tools/

I never understood this complaint. All browsers seem to load pages at the same speed. There are only millisecond differences which you can’t notice anyway. Although I did notice FF 57 starts faster than other browsers.

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Woah, thanks for that. Do the entries stick with the firefox sync account though? I used to use something similar but it didn’t have cloud support and after 3 distro changes it got really annoying.

I don’t find this to be true, the *-56 firefox did have a noticably slower renderer on my laptop than chromium. As well as opening much too slow.

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Im only running it in VM’s but it works well. Chrome is not giving me problems and the extensions I run are working fine so why would I switch away where I would be maybe missing extensions I use.

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I pretty much managed to De-google my life by now. And Chrome sends all URLs you visit to google so Chrome will never see the light of a day on my rig. I don’t need it and I don’t want it. The browser doesn’t have anything that I’m missing out on.

To be honest I really couldn’t give a shit which browser loads pages by few milliseconds faster. When I look at the choices all I see is

  • a browser that can’t render websites properly (IE)

  • a browser that has no extensions(Edge)

  • a browser that has extensions and spies on you (chrome)

  • and browser that has extensions and doesn’t spy (Firefox)

If It really was as bad as people make it out to be then there is always Vivaldi. Or maybe their computers are shit in which case all software will run slower.

@meetOwl Do you know what i consider as slow loading times? When you use Tor.

Back on topic…

I upgraded to 57 on my laptop and one extension is missing. Privacy Settings by Jeremy Schomery. Apart from that it works fine. However I wish Mozilla would stop catering to the minimalistic UI which everyone is obsessed with. Everything looks as if it was drawn on blank paper with nothing but a pencil.

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Mozilla has made Firefox great again.

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My impression is…

Newgrounds doesn’t work.

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I can only imagine this is the case. I think they’re trying to amp up security and give developers a faster method than JS and HTML.

I’ve got a feeling these addons will return in the coming weeks/months. This tends to happen during API breaks.

Ah, yeah. That makes sense. I’ve noticed it’s definitely using less memory and the CPU usage appears to be significantly more efficient as well. (at least on my sandy bridge system)

I’ve never had a good experience with firefox up until now. Maybe I just didn’t throw enough ram at it, but I figure 32GB is enough. FF 57 improved page load times, renderer responsiveness and out of page UI responsiveness.

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As someone who doesn’t enjoy how chromium works, even though i like Vivaldi there isn’t anything that can replace Firefox for me. There are just small things about chromium that rubs me the wrong way in how it feels to use. Firefox also has at least one extension which i would rather like to have. The other global dark mode i have found and is the one on the chromium side doesn’t work even close to as well as this thing
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text/?src=userprofile

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Im addicted to dark mode now. Gnome corrupted me :slight_smile:

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yeah, i really like dark modes makes my computer more pleasant to use at the later hours of the day

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If I can have my bookmarks displayed like they were rather than a long bloody list I will be happy. It only seems to show recently used BMs and I can’t figure out how to change it…

EDIT

Okay I figured it out. It was hidden in the customize options. It was showing me the library icon rather than the one for the bookmarks.

As for speed it does seem noticeably faster. I like the screen capture feature which is nice to have built in.

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My experiences after a few days of usage (Windows 10):

  • feels faster than chrome
  • does not slow down with a lot of tabs open
  • uses more CPU, but not by that much.
  • uses ~80% more memory. However I have 32 GB, so maybe Firefox thinks that it can use more

I will switch to firefox during the weekend on my work laptop (Ubuntu), which has only an 2C/4T i5 and 8 GB RAM, so I will see a clearer picture.

So far I like it, right now I think it is better than Chrome for my usage.

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I am still split between Vivaldi and Firefox. Firefox even before the update was ok for me, now it has more animations but still doesn’t have the customizability of Vivaldi.
And I dont like that now the new screenshot feature is 2 clicks away not only one. And it still doesnt work as good as Vivaldi’s one.

If Vivaldi started to use the Firefox engine I would enjoy that browser :smiley: oh and a big miss in VIvaldi is the missing of scrollable tabs. I like the FIrefox tab style better.

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Dark modes are a must for night browsing

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