Firefox Quantum (aka 57.0)

[nmur]

anybody tried the new firefox? it's pretty damn fast now.

i love high framerate animations and so the only reason i switched to firefox earlier this year was because it had smoother scrolling than chrome. i travel pretty light with extensions so my transition wasn't too hard.

this major update makes scrolling considerably faster still. if you don't have a load of chrome exclusive extensions i would recommend you give this one a try

[SBJ]

Finally able to switch back to Firefox. Been waiting for that.
It's awesome so far and I haven't had a single crash doing what I usually do online.

[Giorgio]

I'm waiting for Ubuntu to update their repositories.

I've found a replacement for all my addons.

[DALExSNAIL]

Using it now that i saw this thread, and even only about an hour in I am liking it. Very smooth and fast.

[SpAmRaY]

Is there a portable version?

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[JohanAR]

I've been using it since it was a nightly. The big selling point for me is that they've finally reverted the horrible menu (looked like a mobile phone / Windows 98 desktop), reinstated the "duplicate tab" function and made the tabs square

[metalliqaz]

reinstated the "duplicate tab" function

So key.

made the tabs square

meh, I think this makes them harder to discern visually

[_rubik]

I need to go go through my machines and update.. In some of my older Deb installed I'm pretty sure I'm running 4x.0, so that might need to be addressed.

[tp4tissue]

i'm on 47

Because WHY UPDATE..  it's text..

Animations ? , you mean ads...  Nope don't need those..

[SpAmRaY]

Biggest issue I've got with Firefox is within a few minutes of opening it the ram usage jumps to 2-3Gb even with only one tab open and it never goes back down until I close it completely.

Hopefully this is fixed in this new version.


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[_rubik]

The biggest issue I seem to be running into with the new firefox is DNS issues when behind a VPN. Other than that it seems really sleek.

[tp4tissue]

Biggest issue I've got with Firefox is within a few minutes of opening it the ram usage jumps to 2-3Gb even with only one tab open and it never goes back down until I close it completely.

Hopefully this is fixed in this new version.


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mine seems to be @ 500mb..

u got t00 much pr0no spam.. !!

[nmur]

Animations ? , you mean ads...

heaven's no, i've got ublock origin

i was specifically talking about scrolling smoothness. it was a bit of a let down having a 144hz monitor but having a browser with a choppy scroll

[tp4tissue]

Animations ? , you mean ads...

heaven's no, i've got ublock origin

i was specifically talking about scrolling smoothness. it was a bit of a let down having a 144hz monitor but having a browser with a choppy scroll

for me the trouble is pixel inversion trails.. more so than frame-rate.. sigh...........

Alas ulmb is not available in any big monitors.

[rowdy]

I've installed it on my Mac at home.  It's even less native-looking now.  Haven't used it much though.

[TalkingTree]

It's eating about 400 MB of RAM but the rendering of pages is pratically instantaneous.
Not sure how faster is from the previous versions for the last time I used Firefox, it was called Netscape Navigator.

[tp4tissue]

It's eating about 400 MB of RAM but the rendering of pages is pratically instantaneous.
Not sure how faster is from the previous versions for the last time I used Firefox, it was called Netscape Navigator.

I remember thinking..

Why would anyone need 64mb of ram.. that's ludicrous.

[Leslieann]

It's eating about 400 MB of RAM but the rendering of pages is pratically instantaneous.

400 megs? I usually hover between 1 to 3 gigs, though 6 or 7 is not unheard of.

One day though....

[rowdy]

I've noticed smooth scrolling with the middle mouse button is much faster.

Used to have to move the mouse pointer at least 1cm away from the click point to get it to scroll at more than a crawl, but now move 2cm and it scrolls much, much faster.  Too much faster, actually, or have I just become used to the old way?

Reminds me of IE in the old days, when you'd middle click, move the mouse pointer down, and down, and down, and nothing happened, and down, and wham!  Suddenly you're at the bottom of the page.

[TalkingTree]

400 megs? I usually hover between 1 to 3 gigs, though 6 or 7 is not unheard of.

Not sure if it makes any difference but I'm running it on a Windows 7 - 64 bit machine with 3 GB of RAM, perhaps it uses RAM proportionally with the total amount available.

I'll try at home with a different setup.

[SpAmRaY]

Is there a portable version?

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To anyone looking, yes there is I'm using it now.

However, I have the portable executable then 7 other firefox executables, they were running as soon as I launched the app.

Currently I estimate between all of them they are using ~2.6Gb of ram, I have 16 tabs open to mostly information type sites, no videos or flash games or anything like that.