I can wait a bit. The browser really is a lot faster now. The developer of Downthemall is also working on an update as well which will be ready a bit later sadly but at least it's coming.
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Firefox Quantum |OT| - Ground up redesign with new speed engine, UI, & extensions
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I can confirm that it feels considerably snappier on old hardware as well. My parents' PC is at least 10 years old and has never been upgraded. As an example, loading and navigating large documents on Google Drive used to be a slog, but I've noticed significant improvements with 57.
Best News I've heard today! It's the only add on I had that I didn't wise uninstall to not survive the change.
Same going to have to get used to it. They also moved refresh back to the left side with Back/Forward. Although at least we can customize that
I'm just missing Wikiwand, I'm really suprised about how much I love this new version (I left the Firefox side many years ago)
It does feel a lot faster. I'm pretty happy with it. I only have a few things that got deactivated and I can either use a user script to add it in or the developer will be updating the add-ons so its overall working out for me. Really pleased that updates are coming from a lot of developers
Looking forward to trying this out. I hope Self-Destructing Cookies still works. And I'm thinking about switching out Ad Block Plus for uBlock.
Anyone have any thoughts on ABP vs. uBlock Origin? Should I switch or just stay with ABP?
edit: Looks like Self-Destructing Cookies won't be ported to WebExtenstions. Boo. Any suggestions for a replacement?
Anyone have any thoughts on ABP vs. uBlock Origin? Should I switch or just stay with ABP?
edit: Looks like Self-Destructing Cookies won't be ported to WebExtenstions. Boo. Any suggestions for a replacement?
I don't know why, but fonts look different... and not in a positive way. They seem to be smaller, or more appropriate, finer.
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Not sure why but Firefox uses 205MB RAM, while Chrome needs only 110. That is with only this thread open in both browser, uBlock on both but several other extension on Chrome. Didn't they promise less RAM usage?
Use uBlock it eats way less of your resources.
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Not sure why but Firefox uses 205MB RAM, while Chrome needs only 110. That is with only this thread open in both browser, uBlock on both but several other extension on Chrome. Didn't they promise less RAM usage?
ABP has an "acceptable" ads feature that's on by default last time I checked which defeats the purpose of the add on as far as I'm concerned.
If that's changed then uBlock is probably still a better choice simply because it's more flexible and efficient than ABP is
Well, apparently you do not even need a Adblocker since you can block ads by default with the tracking protection which you can enable in the settings under privacy etc.
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That is not entirely true, unfortunately. I still get ads on YouTube. It probably has something to do with the provider of the ads, maybe if they use further tracking within their ads. I don't know.
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That is not entirely true, unfortunately. I still get ads on YouTube. It probably has something to do with the provider of the ads, maybe if they use further tracking within their ads. I don't know.
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I'm seeing a similar thing here. RAM usage on Chrome is 75MB and in Firefox it's 133MB.
Made the switch to uBlock Origin once ABP made the acceptable ad feature a thing.
I edited my original post, but enabling tracking protection only removes certain ads but not all. However, it also disables Pop ups, at least there is an option for that too.
I'm on the beta, and for the life of me I can't seem to find a good blocker for pop-up ads.
I also want to get rid of that damn X on the address bar and replace it with the refresh button like before.
Classic Theme Restorer doesn't work any more, but the developer has put together some CSS that'll let you do a lot (but not all) of the customization CTR used to. Download the ZIP file from here, follow the instructions here, and you're more or less in business. You'll have to edit userChrome.css to change things around, so it's a little fiddly, but it's worth it. I've got my tabs back where they belong and the URL bar is behaving as it should. Check it out.
Which X to you mean? Left of the adress bar is a refresh button. The only Xs I can see are the ones to close tabs and the window.
Excellent, thank you! This looks even better than SDC. I dig that they allow both white and greylisting.
Is there a list of supported ad ons? Firefox is my favorite browser for many many years. This looks a great!
Right on the address bar where the refresh button used to be is a big X to close the tab instead.
It constantly throws me off.
My add-ons still all work, the only one I miss that was broken a few updates ago was Lazarus Form Recovery. Very happy with Quantum so far, and hey, the base and dark themes fit well to ResetEra.
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Keep in mind the Android version is only getting the UI refresh. They haven't fully implemented the new engine on mobile yet. It'll be faster, but it's not getting all of the desktop shit.
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Dis browser is FAAAAAST! All this years of been a loyal Firefox user despite having lot's of better and faster browsers out there, have finally paid off :') Loving the performance so far! It runs fantastic on my old 4gb ram 2 core PC from work. If it runs fast here I cannot imagine how it must run on a powerful PC, damn! Great job, Mozilla!
Oh my, this new Firefox is pretty nippy isn't it?
Might return to making this my default after a few years of Chrome.
Might return to making this my default after a few years of Chrome.
Just updated to it and yep its quick. I'm hoping the mobile version is good, never liked using it on android previously and stuck to chrome.
Are you sure about that? I have the exact opposite problem where ES is the only add-on working. Check if you are updated to the latest version of ES.
Nice. So far so good, feeling a bit snappier than before. So far I'm also impressed at how few bugs I've encountered. One bug I noticed is that if you remove extra icons (e.g. Pocket) from the navigation bar, you can't get them back without resetting the whole UI. I imagine that's a design oversight that's getting fixed some time, but it's still a slight problem.
See this:
Basically the UI is still fully customizable, but it has to be done via userChrome.css, which is not exactly user-friendly. That said, to move tabs back to bottom, you only need a few lines there. By default, the colours look a bit messed up then because they weren't designed for that, but fixing them is only a few more lines. Of course if you don't know what you're doing (it's basically the same as developing a website), you need a premade userChrome.css, like this one here.
It's called Tracking Protection for a reason. As far as I know, it uses lists like typical adblockers, but it only uses lists that block tracking parties. It doesn't particularly care about ads, only tracking elements - and many ads happen to track you, so it blocks them. I've heard that the lists Tracking Protection uses are included in uBlock Origin by default, so if you're using uBlock Origin, you don't really need tracking protection since uBO blocks the same things and more.
It's already there, at both Google Play and APKMirror. Apparently Google Play isn't distributing it yet (at least to everyone), but you can download it from APKMirror if you'd like. That said, someone said it doesn't have all the improvements just yet, so waiting for it shouldn't be a big deal.
Bold move breaking compatibility with all legacy extensions, but it appears to be worth it for the rewrite. At least at first glance it's reading heavy pages very fast, and the default interface is decent - though I'm still going to "need" to adjust somethings like the position of the tab bar.
Now that I have installed a replacement for the mouse gestures extension, time to test this a little more, but so far... very nice.
Now that I have installed a replacement for the mouse gestures extension, time to test this a little more, but so far... very nice.
I'm really enjoying the new version. There are only a few basic extensions I'm missing from Chrome and the speed + layout is making up for those.
edit: Is there any way to hide the bookmarks toolbar except on new tab?
edit: Is there any way to hide the bookmarks toolbar except on new tab?
Sound great. I want to try this new version, but I rely on my add-ons. Broken add-ons are a deal breaker for me.
Still not good compared to Chrome or Safari to me. I main FF only on my windows computers.