Firefox’s faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out

Re:Firefox’s faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out by toyg on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @10:37AM (#15704439)

Personally, I think the next target should be battery usage, that's where Chrome is vulnerable IMHO. The second target should be robust performance under Android, and the third some gimmickry that can entice iOS users (plus improvements on performance under iOS - I know the webview is what it is, but at the moment it lags even just typing in the search bar).

Enough with the distractions (ffos, iot, buzzword-of-the-day...), FF is getting back to basics and doing great, let's have more of it!

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Re:Firefox’s faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out by beojan on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @10:47AM (#15704520)

> The second target should be robust performance under Android

That's going to be hard, given Android and Chrome are both Google products.

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Re:Firefox’s faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out by toyg on Friday November 17, 2017 @10:41PM (#15727648)

It doesn't have to be better, it just has to be "not much worse", so that people coupling it with FF on desktop won't feel like they are missing out. You will likely not get new users from Android first, but you should be able to make sure all your desktop users remain so when using Android devices.

Besides, Google is not exactly famous for internal synergies, for years they had two different browsers on Android and they still have multiple chat apps...

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