Firefox 57 (aka Quantum) out now. Huge performance improvements.

[Guest]

@ScratchCat Might go and look into it. But I really like my current version of FF, and I therefor don't really see a reason to upgrade. Did try the 56 64 bit version, but it consumed 3+ gb of memory and multiple processes. My version 43 of firefox "only uses" ~1 gb of ram, and a single process. Easy to terminate in task manager.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Great now all thats left is to make it even faster and more resource efficient by integrating DNS based ad blocking.

If you haven't, read up on modifying your hosts file. (on windows at least) Works really well.

[GoodBytes]

54 minutes ago, AdmiralMeowmix said:

The fact that some of my fav add ons no longer, and will never, work anymore makes me use WaterFox instead. Until they re-allow creators to make UI changes and better customizability I wont be using FF:Q.

I can't predict the future, but I think the add-ons will updated shortly.. it is not the first time that Firefox had a change to the add-on system that required updated. And if it doesn't, you'll have some alternative that will show up that is equal or better.

[ignaloidas]

I'm currently on 59, hi from the future. FF now uses only 1mb of ram and can run on 100K monitors no problem.

 

On a serious note. It totally got faster in 59. I feel it a lot as my PC is basically a garbage can.

[TimeOmnivore]

My only problem with it so far is that the tabs are square instead of rounded. The fact that that's my only complaint tells me that this is a fantastic update when you also take into consideration all of the significant performance update, which I noticed about 10 seconds into using this new version. Once I removed the pointless spaces in the address bar, the change in design stopped bothering me, since it's basically the same as before, which I liked.

 

Also, YouTube Subscription Checker by XrXr still works, and since that's the main reason I use Firefox over chrome, that's great, too.

 

EDIT: So, Twitch on Firefox uses about 30% more of my CPU than Chrome, so that sucks. Then again, before the update, Twitch wouldn't work at all for me on FF, so that's an improvement I guess?

[GoodBytes]

For those who don't know, in Firefox, under customization, you can set the theme to:

 - Default

 - Light

 - Dark

 - or a pre-made custom theme, with suggestions given and "Get more theme" button which jumps you to the website to get more themes.

 

I use the dark one.

 

Then you can pick if you have a touch friendly extra large version of the interface, normal, or compact under the "Density" drop down menu list.

 

[S w a t s o n]

1 minute ago, GoodBytes said:

For those who don't know, in Firefox, under cutsomization, you set the theme to:

 - Default

 - Light

 - Dark

 - or a pre-made custom theme, with suggestions given and "Get more theme" button which jumps you to the website to get more themes.

 

I use the dark one.

Oh my god thanks for letting us know, I just upgraded earlier today and was wondering about a dark theme. It's SOOOOOOOOOO nice.

[ScratchCat]

9 minutes ago, TimeOmnivore said:

My only problem with it so far is that the tabs are square instead of rounded. The fact that that's my only complaint tells me that this is a fantastic update when you also take into consideration all of the significant performance update, which I noticed about 10 seconds into using this new version. Once I removed the pointless spaces in the address bar, the change in design stopped bothering me, since it's basically the same as before, which I liked. Oh, and I wish the pinned sites in the "New Tab" were as large as they used to be, but it's not that bad, and you can easily add more if you want. So, a pretty good update I'd say.

 

Also, YouTube Subscription Checker by XrXr still works, and since that's the main reason I use Firefox over chrome, that's great, too.

 

EDIT: So, Twitch on Firefox uses about 30% more of my CPU than Chrome, so that sucks. Then again, before the update, Twitch wouldn't work at all for me on FF, so that's an improvement I guess?

Twitch uses around 35% on my Atom Z3735, probably the hardware acceleration is still a bit unstable in Firefox.

Update: It seems to be twitch itself. Firefox uses the normal flash player, chrome uses its own version which probably fixes many things

 

 

[laminutederire]

I finally can use that browser again! Yay

[Princess Luna]

I have really liked it, already used Firefox before now all more reason to use it.

[yian88]

1 hour ago, GoodBytes said:

I have been using it for a while now (well beta version), and it is amazing!

I think Firefox is back on the map with this web browser.

Really ? i tought you only use Edge and internet explorer.

[Bananasplit_00]

hmm might switch, if anyone has an easy way to transfer around 80 tabs from chrome to FF with less effort then just opening all the same tabs one by one lol

[AdmiralMeowmix]

1 hour ago, GoodBytes said:

I can't predict the future, but I think the add-ons will updated shortly.. it is not the first time that Firefox had a change to the add-on system that required updated. And if it doesn't, you'll have some alternative that will show up that is equal or better.

Nope Any Add-Ons that change the UI in any way are no longer allowed and to do most of what these add ons do you have to go and change the CSS yourself and even then there's limits.

[TimeOmnivore]

Being that the new folder design for bookmarks looks really bad imo, here's a method of changing it for any curious(from various support/reddit posts):

 

1. Type about:support in address bar - 2: Click "Open Folder" - 3. Navigate to or create the "chrome" folder. 4. Open or create userChrome.css.

5. copy/past this into it:

Quote

@namespace url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul);

.bookmark-item[container]
    {
        list-style-image: url(' /* Base64 code goes here */ ') !important;

        }

You can find the Base64 code for various folder icons here - https://www.iconfinder.com/ - I personally used https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/33890/folder_icon#size=128

Just click "Copy Base64 PNG" and paste it there; make sure to leave the ' and ' on either end and remove the /* and */.

Then just restart Firefox.

 

 

[yian88]

actually its quite amazing how good it got, if you use youtube with the New UI on chrome it lags severely it barely opens a new video takes 2-3 seconds, new firefox is instant so nice

[Thony]

All I need is an adblock and stability. Gonna install it as soon as I get home.

[AHaskin14]

Been running the pre release for about a month now and haven't had a single complaint

[Dabombinable]

Is it a case of using less RAM...because its hitting the HDD/SSD its installed on harder?

[pyrojoe34]

1 minute ago, Dabombinable said:

Is it a case of using less RAM...because its hitting the HDD/SSD its installed on harder?

Good question. I don't know the answer but I don't think so. I have drive caching disabled on FF and still saw a decrease in RAM use. I think it's probably just better optimization and a reduction in redundant data caching.

[MyName13]

1 hour ago, GoodBytes said:

For those who don't know, in Firefox, under customization, you can set the theme to:

 - Default

 - Light

 - Dark

 - or a pre-made custom theme, with suggestions given and "Get more theme" button which jumps you to the website to get more themes.

 

I use the dark one.

 

Then you can pick if you have a touch friendly extra large version of the interface, normal, or compact under the "Density" drop down menu list.

 

I can't find that on the Android version.

[Guest]

5 minutes ago, MyName13 said:

I can't find that on the Android version.

I don't believe FF on Android is customization (Maybe there is a flag for it, don't know). It does support add-ons so *maybe* there is something out there but I doubt it.

[Memories4K]

Didn't Mozilla sell out to Yahoo or something?

[NinJake]

Mmm sweet FF goodness

[Haaselh0ff]

Switching my shitty Surface 3 back to Firefox after using Edge. I'm so happy that it doesn't guzzle my RAM anymore!

[Inkz]

I can't wait to get back home later to try it!