I always have been using Firefox but I do have Chrome and Edge (gasp!) installed as well -- for backups.
I am happy with Quantum. It's slick and suits my needs, just need some addons I used to work again. Too bad they don't fully support theming like old Firefox versions.
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I do feel it's a little faster. I'm not the type of person to have 500 tabs open, however.
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All my add ons are gone, my firefox Dark Fox is gone, Cookie Manager gone, and lots of add ons now are disabled, tabs looks like Opera. Not thanks, inmediatly run a downgrade and block the autoupdate.
Firefox without Download Them All! has no use for me.
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i was preparing for this new version few months, so no problem with addons. so far i like it. i hope it will be much faster and new look is ok for me.
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It stopped tryng to open SteamVR on half the sites, so that's good.
There's a bunch of sites that it can't render correctly, so that's bad.
I'll keep using Opera and Edge as my backups to Chrome until the Firefox team figure out how to make a browser.
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Not really impressed by the new Firefox. Biggest good change I'm seeing is when Tor Browser updates it will push uMatrix instead of NoScript. :D
Waiting for their Servo to take off.
But for anyone having lots of tabs open, they need to master the arts of OneTab as well The Great Suspender for Chrome or for Firefox either Suspend Tab or Tab Suspender.
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I've used OneTab for a long time and it's really great, but I do end up accumulating tabs in there. At the moment, I've got 584 tabs in it! Perhaps I'm not so great at managing it, hahaha.
Also, I believe the new Firefox has parts of Servo in it, but it will be nice when it's all finalised.
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feels like a virus to me. almost nothing works anymore, userscripts seam to be removed entirely. only good thing is the speed, but i'd rather have a working snale than a broken jet.
luckily reverting to 56 made some addons usable again, scripts are still gone though. >:c
Edit: reroll here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-older-version-of-firefox
Edit 2: when rerolling and scripts won't work, uninstall greasemonkey and reeinstall. everything should be back then.
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You apparently don't understand how things work based on your own post.
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Almost nothing works = what? If your add-ons aren't supported/no WebExtension version and you need them dearly, don't switch. Yes it's true WebExtension requirement breaks old add-ons ecosystem, but it's nowhere near 'almost nothing works'.
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luckily reverting to 56 made some add-ons usable again = if your old add-ons worked before you had switched, then when you switched back they will work again and not just 'some'.
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scripts are still gone though = easy, reinstall them from your sources.
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FF57 is even faster makes FF56 looks like a snail.
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Are there any comparisons online? Mozilla compares 57 to 52, which isn't an interesting comparison.
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Yes, do you want independent comparisons or random guy's?
Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAhTQMdEYM
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Thanks! That was quite informative. 57 doesn't seem that significant an update in terms of speed, based on that. Nothing like 55 was over 54.
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On Firefox Quantum Steamgifts runs awfully slow :(
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seems snappier, but no good without NoScript in my main browser - won't use it for now
... at least ghostery, ublock, adb+ work - at times there's 150+
damn connections to services that do but 1 thing - collect your data
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Overreacting.
And you're trusting someone who had a code war with Adblock Plus, which is very ironic to place your trust in him.
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"trusting someone" ... "code war with adb+" ... lol, preach on buddy -
you don't seem to understand how useful noscript is
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uBlock Origin is not only an ad blocker. You can customize it to block all scripts by default and whitelist them per site. I don't know if that's how you were using NoScript.
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thanks for the info didn't know about that, just checked up on it along with
the logger plugin that'll make things also look (more like noscript) - neat!
uBO sure seems to have a lot of options (esp the "element zapper" i've used is great&quick)
... had started using it since only 3 months ago, additionally to adb+
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I replaced AdBlock Plus with uBlock Origin long time ago. Never looked back. AdBlock Plus is a resource hog and they also use obscure practices like getting money from some companies to have their websites whitelisted by default.
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Firefox was my mainstay but the constant UI fuckery finally got to me and I switched to palemoon like 6 months ago. No reason to go back that I can see.
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Palemoon declared they'll be using ESR forever, so good luck with ancient codebase for years to come.
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Really fast, so far. The only problem is that secret sniffer script was disabled, and I don't know how to install it with greasemonkey
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Wtf did they do. Why is everything black&white now? How to go back to yellow folders? Jesus
Why is adress bar so short, I have blank space on the left and right side, wasted for nothing. I can't even see entire site adress of this topic.
I wonder if they reduced memory usage. Since last big update firefox is using way too much memory and its sluggish for me.
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the new firefox fell so amazing just soooooooooo cooool
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Love/hate relation at the moment. On one hand, it's faster. Working the CSS of pages (and pretty much the entirety of the Developer Tools) are lightening fast, and lots of bugs were resolved. On the other hand, everything else has been a pain, most importantly userstyles using Stylish.
In other words, some userstyles may sometimes simply to refuse loading entirely (seems to happen when opening new tabs), resulting in the pages' CSS partially being changed, which is very annoying and pisses me off. Not sure if there's a simple solution to this problem. Heck, might be a problem with my userstyle - however, I've never had that problem in the older versions of Firefox. If anyone knows of a solution, I'd love to hear it.
(Below: How it's supposed to look vs how it loads in new tabs)
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Stylish broke a few days before the firefox update for me, the culprit was the new version of stylish actually.
Try switching to Stylus, it does the same, but works.
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I figured there could be something wrong with Stylish, thanks for the heads up. I'll give it a few days and see if they fix it before switching.
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Is there a way to install it alongside with old firefox, without upgrading it? I would give it a try then. If not - I will stay on old version until... Well, until I actually need to move somewhere because something important for me stop working.
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It updated today for me, so far it seems to work slightly better. I don't use many add-ons so the transition was mostly painless.
I would like to say however that I'm not shocked that it looks a bit more like Opera now, again.
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I haven't updated it yet and after what I read in this thread I might not update it at all. I think I'll download the portable version to see what it's like before deciding whether to update it to the latest version or not. I prefer the look of the old versions of Firefox, which still had the menu and not the Chrome look.
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You could turn the menu bar back on, just right-click in the title bar area and check "Menu Bar"
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Only problem is the new look sucks. So far everything else is good. I wish I could change back to the old theme.
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crap. noscript and greasemonkey broken. new version of GM no scripts installed. ugh.
tried several options, gave up.
reverted back to 56.0.2
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https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
All legacy add-ons still work and gets current security updates.
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Anyone try the new firefox and Steamgifts? I usually have a lot of tabs which slows down Chrome considerably. Anyone try it out yet? With and without extensions?
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