Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition

Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by bwat49 on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:05AM (#15339275)

57 really is a huge improvement, I can no longer feel any difference in responsiveness between firefox and chrome.

In some ways I think firefox has actually surpassed chrome (e.g. on my xps 13 touchpad scrolling is much more responsive/smoother in firefox)

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by gue5t on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:09AM (#15339318)

Re: touchpad scrolling, make sure you disable "smooth" (animated) scrolling and enable precise scrolling; on Linux this requires setting MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 in the environment.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by k__ on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @11:40AM (#15339613)

Nice, thanks!

Everything feels 10 times faster without smooth scrolling, while I have to say that the nightly already felt blazing fast _with_ smooth scrolling, haha.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by SubiculumCode on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:21PM (#15342625)

This should be off by default. Feels and looks faster. What is the downside?

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by gue5t on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @05:42PM (#15342768)

Tracking the thread through https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207700 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170342 (and ultimately https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93539 ) it appears that when XI2 is used, focus-out events were not sent in rare cases under old versions of Xorg. If you're running modern software there should be no downside.

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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition by SubiculumCode on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:01PM (#15342897)

Thanks. Could the Mozilla installer detect the version of Xorg and set ?

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