How Firefox Got Fast Again

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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