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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by ddavis on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:11AM (#19430938)
On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.
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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by abrowne on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:17AM (#19430988)
AIUI, Mozilla is rewriting the address bar ("QuantumBar"), and you can now toggle it on in Nightly by setting browser.urlbar.quantumbar to true in about:config. I've only tried it on Linux, but it seems smoother.
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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @04:48PM (#19435674)
When did the "Awesome Bar" become the "Quantum Bar", what's the difference, and why can't they call it the "address bar" (yes despite it being overloaded with other functions)?
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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by abrowne on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @09:55PM (#19438162)
It's this rewrite specifically that's called QuantumBar.
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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by Leace on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @11:45AM (#19431904)
Thanks for the pointer, the toggle works in stable too but the smoothness you describe just isn't there yet :)
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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by reticulated on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:15AM (#19430972)
Appears performant to me on a 2015 MBP. What's the use case in which you see problems?
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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by xrisk on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:17AM (#19430986)
Have this same problem. 2015 rMBP. The FF UI feels so much more laggy than Chrome/Safari.
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Re:Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances by elven_lord on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:22AM (#19431036)
have this exact same problem on my 2015 rMBP, switching between tabs quickly is hideous.
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