How Firefox Got Fast Again

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by acqq on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:35PM (#15688195)

Exactly, Firefox is slower for both me and my girlfriend, I am a kind of "typical non-typical" and she "typical typical" user, and it got annoyingly slower for both. And now I've just lost all the extensions too, including NoScript and the dictionary(?!?)! See my other post here for details.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by codexon on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:51PM (#15690124)

I think most people don't know this, but you need to download the nightly, NOT the regular version of Firefox (56 as of now) to see the speed increase.

The regular Firefox is much slower than Chrome still. The nightly is now noticeably faster than Chrome.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by rehemiau on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:42PM (#15690977)

This all mozilla's bragging about speed is premature. They should've published this article after firefox 57 reaches stable.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by codexon on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:53PM (#15691032)

Yup this article confused me as well.

The current stable release 56 just can't compare to chrome.

Apparently they have decided 57 is stable already but plan to make it official tomorrow.

From my unscientific testing, 57 is only as fast as chrome, while the nightly (59) seems to be faster than chrome. They should have waited until 59 was stable.

I would be using the nightly as my main browser if I didn't have experience with crashes and bugs with nightly versions before.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by batiudrami on Monday November 13, 2017 @08:45PM (#15691928)

57 stable starts rolling out today (14/11).

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by sverige on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:49PM (#15688330)

I've been using firefox since forever too. (Actually, since Mozilla 1.0 (aka Nutscrape) in 1993 or thereabouts.) I'm at that point where I'm about to dump it again, as I have periodically in the past.

They keep making it more and more like Chrome. If I wanted to use Chrome, I would. It's gotten to bloat maximum.

It's slow as hell. It's less flexible and less easy to personalize. They have broken some of my favorite add-ons.

This piece is pure propaganda.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by mgbmtl on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:07PM (#15688502)

I was feeling the same, but FF57 really is much better.

It does break some extensions, but many have converted. Which are you having trouble with? The main one I'm missing is "Disable Ctrl+Q".

My notes: https://www.bidon.ca/fr/random/2017-10-05-webextensions-supp...

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by sverige on Monday November 13, 2017 @03:42PM (#15690032)

The main one I've been missing is Pentadactyl (for quite a while). Vimium-FF is ok I guess.

My main objection is still the sheer size and the amount of memory it takes, and the continual feature creep to make it more and more like Chrome. I know I'm in the minority, and also that it's heresy to say anything bad about Mozilla here. Oh well.

I only wish I had lots of money and/or time so I could help revive the development of xombrero, but at least it's still available.

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Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again by bovine3dom on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @03:40AM (#15693600)

Have you looked at Qutebrowser if you want a standalone browser?

Other options for Vim-like web extensions are Saka key, Vim-Vixen and Tridactyl.

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