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Title: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Rupert on November 29, 2017, 03:33:37 PM
Seems lightening fast for me.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: rcjordan on November 29, 2017, 03:35:05 PM
You and the 6 others using it worldwide will be happy.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Rupert on November 29, 2017, 03:49:19 PM
Wow... I had not realised how small it was:
http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share  approx 7% there. but still 14% of desktops.

chrome is bigger than I expected.


no one else use it here?
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Travoli on November 29, 2017, 04:47:18 PM
I still use it regularly. Probably need to switch to Chrome.

I was surprised to see how few use MS browsers.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: BoL on November 29, 2017, 04:54:16 PM
Still using it, could have done with a few of the plugins that were sacrificed but switching to Chrome would be a bigger pain in the arse.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: ergophobe on November 29, 2017, 05:22:23 PM
I use it, but not as the primary.

It is nice though. But as mentioned, the browser wars are over, and Google won.

But it wasn't *that* long ago that we declared the browser wars over and MS had won. So who knows.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Mackin USA on November 29, 2017, 09:27:57 PM
I LUV FF
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: littleman on November 29, 2017, 09:44:52 PM
I just updated from 52 and it is noticeably faster.  Running on Linux.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Drastic on November 30, 2017, 03:08:49 AM
Use it daily everywhere except mobile. Afraid to update, seems a lot of plugins will not be compatible? Or maybe more are updated now.

Thinking about switching to Opera which is basically reskinned chrome that doesn't phone home to G.

Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Mackin USA on November 30, 2017, 11:24:09 AM
> Thinking about switching to Opera

Kissing BTs BUTT  ;D
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: jetboy on November 30, 2017, 11:54:36 AM
I'm on Firefox 57. It still leaks memory, but does it on multiple threads instead of just the one. It is very fast though.

The're an add-on called Foxified which apparently allows the running of Chrome and Opera plugins. I haven't tried it yet. I'd be interested in your feedback if you do.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: ergophobe on November 30, 2017, 02:27:19 PM
Quote from: jetboy on November 30, 2017, 11:54:36 AM
The're an add-on called Foxified which apparently allows the running of Chrome and Opera plugins. I haven't tried it yet. I'd be interested in your feedback if you do.

Haven't tried it yet, but I recently came across a blog post where someone did it with Dreditor (Drupal Editor) and said it just worked straight away. He just saved the Foxified version and released it as a Firefox plugin with (as I understood it from his blog post), no changes.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: ergophobe on November 30, 2017, 02:28:12 PM
Found the post - https://www.millwoodonline.co.uk/blog/dreditor-for-firefox
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: grnidone on November 30, 2017, 10:09:57 PM
I LOVE it!  Love love love it!
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: littleman on November 30, 2017, 11:34:42 PM
http://www.zdnet.com/article/just-how-fast-is-firefox-quantum/
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Leona on December 01, 2017, 11:51:42 AM
I hate it, yes it is fast but I only used firefox for the extensions, browser display checking and different logins for websites, none of the useful extensions work anymore so it is pretty redundant, faster but useless for me. I will be using waterfox more than the new firefox.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Mackin USA on December 01, 2017, 12:15:41 PM
>>> WATERFOX

I will try that!



Features

    Disabled Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
    Disabled Web Runtime (deprecated as of 2015)
    Removed Pocket
    Removed Telemetry
    Removed data collection
    Removed startup profiling
    Allow running of all 64-Bit NPAPI plugins
    Allow running of unsigned extensions
    Removal of Sponsored Tiles on New Tab Page
    Addition of Duplicate Tab option
    Locale selector in about:preferences > General

Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: rcjordan on December 02, 2017, 12:32:41 PM
Mozilla saw its 2016 revenue increase 24 percent to an all-time high of $520 million

https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-revenue-jump-fuels-its-firefox-overhaul-plan/

Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: gm66 on December 07, 2017, 12:50:56 PM
Not heard of Quantum before, better be better than Aurora!