Firefox 57 discussion!

[IrshaadH]

Just downloaded the new version, it does seem pretty snappy.  However, it's been a few years since I've used this browser.  In terms of RAM management, I don't see much of a difference.  Animations seem smoother, though.  Also, the mobile version feels much more fluid than Chrome upon initial testing?

 

Has anyone else here tried it out?  What are your impressions?

[Guest]

Is it supposed to be a big upgrade from 43.0.1? Going to try it anyways, due to sometimes choppy animations. (gifs)

[IrshaadH]

Just now, Dutch-stoner said:

Is it supposed to be a big upgrade from 43.0.1? Going to try it anyways, due to sometimes choppy animations. (gifs)

Yes, according to Mozilla, it's running on a brand new engine designed to be faster and use less memory than Chrome.

[Guest]

For me, it already used less memory then chrome... (and it was also just a single program running in taskmanager, easy to close/reboot)

[Guest]

So I updated... I thought: well, this is nice! Don't see any difference, and it should be faster! Checked version... 47.0.2... Did another update: 56.0 (32 bits). Another try to update firefox: 57.0 (64-bits)! Yay! But nay! Ugly AF, going to restore my old version.

[Vode]

I have been using Firefox Nightly since they'd announced Quantum and it's been amazing.

 

I generally prefer open source solutions if they are available and Firefox 57 and onward seem to be a homerun as far as I'm concerned.

[Guest]

I like it. Especially now that all of my add-ons work. The ugly default theme is easily fixed. Definitely snappy.

[Sakkura]

I won't upgrade until NoScript is available. But apparently the dev hopes to release a compatible version later today.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Legendarypoet said:

The ugly default theme is easily fixed.

The internet told me the old classic style won't work anymore. So how did you fix your theme?

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

The internet told me the old classic style won't work anymore. So how did you fix your theme?

I used customize to move things where I wanted, then changed the theme to dark.

[DanielMDA]

Its good, but im a hardcore chrome user.

[Guest]

Ok @Legendarypoet. So I asume your way of fixing it, is completely different then using a classical skin. Correct?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Ok @Legendarypoet. So I asume your way of fixing it, is completely different then using a classical skin. Correct?

Yes, I'm not entirely certain what you mean by classical skin.

[Guest]

FF 59 Nightly FTW The upgrade to servo elements is nice, though I can't wait to see some studies on servo versus current engines in regards to security and performance (Better parallelization FTW).

[PCturbobutton]

Does anyone here know of a good session manager that works with the new FF, especially one that can save individual windows?

I'm switching back from chrome and my previous favourite extension/addon called TabCloud doesn't work on this latest version of FF.

 

So far I've had one crash within 5 minutes of installing, and as above I only have one addon that doesn't work.

Other than that this new version seems definitely fast coompared to Chrome which has been slow for me recently,