Firefox Quantum first impressions

[arche 177]

Just wondering what everyone that has tried Firefox Quantum thinks of it. Seems to interact nicely with Emby. I don't see the 30% less memory they claim, but seems nice on first impressions.

[Luke 42077]

It's definitely performing better, which is good because throughout this year Firefox was beginning to fall behind Chrome and Edge in that department.

[Chyron 256]

It's definitely performing better, which is good because throughout this year Firefox was beginning to fall behind Chrome and Edge in that department.

 

Agreed. MUCH faster. And the Settings drop-down menu under the hamburger button is back to its previous appearance as a list rather than icons.

 

 

However, now my FXChrome skin is (temporarily?) broken, and the Firefox Logo atop the about:home page was removed, which both give me a slight sad.

[Luke 42077]

I can't imagine many people are using skins. That is the sort of thing where the performance is too important to care about the impact to skins. From their standpoint, you do what you have to do to improve the product, then clean up the mess later.

[Chyron 256]

I can't imagine many people are using skins. That is the sort of thing where the performance is too important to care about the impact to skins. From their standpoint, you do what you have to do to improve the product, then clean up the mess later.

 

That was not a dig at Mozilla for breaking it. The skin dev just needs to update his addon, which at this time is a bit of a bummmer because I really dislike the rectangular tabs' appearance.

 

I also did like the giant Firefox logo on the previous versions' default about:home page. If I turn off everything but the search box now, then about:home is nothing but an empty white page with a single empty search box. And about:home loads faster than changing the home and newtab pages to google.com

Edited November 16, 2017 by chyron8472

[Luke 42077]

Yes the new brighter logo is nice.

[Chyron 256]

Truth be told, I've been a fan of Firefox for the most part since back when it was called Netscape Navigator. Apparently most people these days like Chrome? But then most people these days love Apple, and I am most certainly not one of those people either. Chrome is decent, but it doesn't hold a candle to the customizability and speed Firefox offers for me. Perhaps at the risk of stability, but hopefully Quantum has fixed that.

 

EDIT: Okay, wait. I turned that text up there into a link, and then clicked on it to test it, and it loaded the linked wiki page downright almost instantly. Wow. I was shocked it was so fast.

Edited November 16, 2017 by chyron8472

[Dair 0]

Had no idea this was a thing till I saw this thread, massive improvement for me on the Web app and everywhere else, very nice