This is kinda sad: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/07/firefox-marketshare-falling-off-cliff-former-mozilla-cto-thinks-knows
We just need to spread some propaganda about how Firefox is much better, faster, secure, etc. I believe there are enough people who would buy that, even if it's not true. 
And now for some good news: http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/108229-firefox-quantum-flow-big-impact-app-loading-memory/
If you're on the Nightly build you can probably see some of the improvements. The thing is just blazing fast.
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That drop is an insane improvement 
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It is pretty nice 
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Check if all the speedy features are enabled. Especially on Linux. Like Hardware Acceleration and Multiprocess Windows.
Just got nightly and yes it is blazing fast just like chrome. I am so fucking happy i don’t have to switch to google chrome.
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TFW your daily driver is FreeBSD and all you have to do is pass a couple flags in ports to make chrome a distant memory
wait what?
I just installed firefox 55, because I read that it can spawn more subprocesses at the cost of RAM.
And HOLY SHIT is it fast at loading all my tabs on session restore.
You have to go to the settings and manually set the limit of subprocesses. It’s default is 1, max is 7 (which I chose).
By simply reloading about 25 tabs at once I can get my R5 [email protected] to 50% load.
It uses 1.7Gb instead of 1.1Gb of RAM.
I am very impressed by this update.
yep its amazing
is a small memory leak though. caused firefox to consume 7gb of ram with only a few tabs. was over the course of a week or so of running
im on firefox nightly now and it’s amazing
i love this feature on firefox , check it out guys! https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers-experiment?as=u&utm_source=inproduct
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What the exact name of the setting?
Thanks! But I already had that set to 16 manually though about:config before 
hmm, just tried setting it to 12 or 10, but I don’t really see any more performance gains. Not with about 20 tabs anyways.
Maybe it’s limited internally to max. 7, but if they raise the limit, I am ready 
In system monitor I had 12 threads, but It’s just too fast for my cpu already 
man the newer firefox really improves the experience on mac.
crashes about 7 times a day on the older versions but now it crashes 7 times a day but only taking out a tab or 2 at a time
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