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Title: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Magnum on November 17, 2017, 09:59:32 AM
Anyone testing Firefox Quantum ?

It uses all available cores and is really fast.

As it is a beta, it does have some bugs.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: jimg on November 17, 2017, 10:30:48 AM
It doesn't support my favorite addon (classic theme restorer), so I am carefully keeping portable apps  from updating to it.  Can't stand the chrome and clones interface.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: jj2007 on November 17, 2017, 01:03:08 PM
QuoteHow many ways can you customize the toolbar in the new Firefox?

    There are 265,252,859,191,742,656,903,069,040,640,000 more ways to customize the new Firefox toolbar right out of the box!

Now I am deeply impressed! What a pity that I just moved to PaleMoon (https://www.palemoon.org/) because FF always slowed down my machine with its greed for memory 8)
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: felipe on November 18, 2017, 02:49:23 AM
I'm now, apparently  :idea:. After an update now firefox looks almost as ugly as windows 10.  :(
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: cman on November 18, 2017, 11:41:42 AM
The new Quantum version of Firefox seems ( so far ) a great improvement over prior versions. It seems to be as fast as Chrome now and starts up much quicker than old versions. The prior version of Firefox would always crash during long youtube "live streams" and I haven't had that problem with Quantum. So far , so good ..
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Magnum on November 18, 2017, 01:46:19 PM
Glad it's working for you.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Jokaste on November 18, 2017, 04:06:50 PM
I tested it, it is very fast.
Thanks for this news.
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: Adamanteus on November 18, 2017, 07:08:56 PM
Join  :t
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: hutch-- on November 19, 2017, 12:13:59 AM
I don't have a single problem with Slimjet.  :badgrin:
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: anunitu on November 19, 2017, 12:27:08 AM
Also using quqntum,so far so good,onwin7 homr
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: felipe on November 19, 2017, 02:04:48 PM
Well, after all it's faster.  :biggrin:

But i didn't like the appearance.  :(

:redface:
Title: Re: Firefox Quantum
Post by: hutch-- on November 19, 2017, 08:16:52 PM
Slimjet, no "Gurgle" telemetry (spyware) and genuinely fast.  :biggrin: Firefox lost it years ago, I don't even keep a copy of it on my machines any longer.