Upcoming Firefox 57 ("Quantum") is twice as fast as Firefox 52

mingeroonie · 27 Jan 2018 at 17:31

One of the addons I use is "Roomy bookmarks Toolbar" and Im having trouble finding a replacement for quantum.

Any suggestions for a replacement before I update?

Sorted now

darael · 29 Jan 2018 at 18:10

50.0.1 is already out, but there's no release notes just yet. I hope this fixes some problems I had with scripts.

FlakGunna · 29 Jan 2018 at 18:11

I still find it slower than Chrome. Loved FireFox back in the day though.

LoadsaMoney · 29 Jan 2018 at 19:03

Just had v58.0.1 come through.

demonix · 29 Jan 2018 at 19:08

I'm about done with firefox as the more recent versions have started bringing in issues with tabs suddenly being put into their own window and it's been getting on my nerves.

Narj · 29 Jan 2018 at 20:02

I've given up on Firefox. It's even worse on android. Brave browser is miles better.

Rroff · 29 Jan 2018 at 20:03

I've had pretty much zero issues with Firefox so far since Quantum upto latest 58 (think one update had some minor text colour issues on certain elements).

The mobile browser is kind of meh though and I don't bother with it.

jpaul · 29 Jan 2018 at 20:51

mingeroonie said:
Any suggestions for a replacement before I update?

vertical tabs though on a landscape -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs-reloaded/

The android/mobile versions has not be quantumized.

on the h/w acceleration have folks seen crashes using both internal and external gpu ?
saw an interesting article on next h/w acceleration tech, whilst failing to find out what the current acceleration tech is meant to improve
The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank

~>Dg<~ · 30 Jan 2018 at 12:40

with latest firefox build. can anyone tell me why they would change now bookmarks going directly into a normal list. they go by default into other bookmarks instead of how it used to be bookmarks menu ?

is there a way to change this by default ? so it puts all bookmarks straight to menu instead of other bookmarks. dont get the logic behind changing this :confused:

Orcvader · 30 Jan 2018 at 13:55

Stylo which was the first part of Quantum that arrived for the desktop on 57, has been pushed back from 59 to 60 on the Android version. And apparently it won't be the big performance boost which it really needs. Seems WebRender will be the one to improve things since mobile SoCs tends to have a stronger GPU compared to the CPU.

@~>Dg<~ saw this mentioned a few days ago and it's a possible bug. This extension has been suggested for now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/default-bookmark-folder/

~>Dg<~ · 30 Jan 2018 at 15:17

cheers driving me crazy

darael · 30 Jan 2018 at 22:45

Just tonight on these forums, I'm noticing very quick white flashing when navigating. Tried a system restart, but the problem persists.

mrk · 30 Jan 2018 at 23:14

~>Dg<~ said:
with latest firefox build. can anyone tell me why they would change now bookmarks going directly into a normal list. they go by default into other bookmarks instead of how it used to be bookmarks menu ?

is there a way to change this by default ? so it puts all bookmarks straight to menu instead of other bookmarks. dont get the logic behind changing this

By design, it make slogical sense. if you're just adding quick bookmark to handle (organise) later,t hen going into other folder is the done way to keep things clean rather than build a list of ever growing items in the primary bookmarks menu.

People need to learn better organisation!

~>Dg<~ · 30 Jan 2018 at 23:19

before one click the bookmark i wanted was ready to use in a organized list. its been that way for probably ten years on firefox.since update to do the same process i have to click bookmark then open otherbook marks then change to old way.so its extra efforts steps to produce exactly the same thing ! its bad design not good. even with the new way its still extra steps to do the same.

how can anything be more simplier than old way ? it was one click in the list.one step to get the bookmark ! its impossible to be easier ! it was the least effort.

now you have to do two steps for the same process.typical software designing.take a perfect way then complicate it for no reason.

Rroff · 30 Jan 2018 at 23:19

darael said:
Just tonight on these forums, I'm noticing very quick white flashing when navigating. Tried a system restart, but the problem persists.

Are you using hardware acceleration?

darael · 31 Jan 2018 at 00:05

Rroff said:
Are you using hardware acceleration?

Narrowed the cause down to Ghostery. Disabling it fixes the flashing.

pastymuncher · 15 Feb 2018 at 13:02

Is there anyway to stop the annoying "Are you bored with your background" popup? I can't find anything in the settings. Never used to get popup's with Firefox but now I get this a couple of times a week. I can't actually say that this new version is any faster than the older versions either.

V F · 15 Feb 2018 at 13:40

darael said:
Narrowed the cause down to Ghostery. Disabling it fixes the flashing.

Ghostery.

Horrible extension. Hated it even with Safari on OS X.

~>Dg<~ · 15 Feb 2018 at 17:43

cheers ! still a double process from something that was previously one.