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

Pawnless Endgame · 14 Nov 2017 at 20:54

Cheers for the feedback guys about the new Firefox. I realise that developers behind unMHT (for MHT files) isn't going to support the new Firefox, so that is a deal-breaker for me at the moment. I liked the MHT format because they are single files rather than multiple files + folder per web page and I have a huge archive of MHTs going back to the late 90s so I want to keep them. Obviously I don't want to switch to IE because it's pants

opethdisciple · 14 Nov 2017 at 21:02

Have they got read of the download manager?

I used to like that feature over Chromes download tab. Seems Mozilla have ditched it?

Orcvader · 14 Nov 2017 at 21:28

No-One said:
Is Adblock+ working on this version yet? Just want to check before I install

Highly recommend uBlock Origin for both Firefox and Chrome, it's a lot lighter and a lot more powerful as well.

opethdisciple said:
Have they got read of the download manager?

I used to like that feature over Chromes download tab. Seems Mozilla have ditched it?

Still there but for some reason the download button auto hides itself. A bit of a pain, but I found if you download something to make it appear, then go to "Customise", drag it to the overflow area, then back to the toolbar, a pop up appears over it with the option to untick auto-hide. You can also access the download manager via the new library button.

mrk · 14 Nov 2017 at 21:52

Sad to lose the use of legacy extensions, still no viable replacement for ReHost Image...

Anyway, I like v57, few UI stuff got changed around, and I don't like the all black tab bar when choosing the dark theme, I preferred v56's "dark" shade instead of all black, it's more pleasing.

opethdisciple · 14 Nov 2017 at 22:37

Do you guys install the Flash plug-in?

mrk · 14 Nov 2017 at 22:37

I have not had Flash installed for over a year. Only sites that are not worth visiting use Flash still anyway.

For anyone wanting to increase the new tab "Top Sites" grid from the paltry 12 (old Firefox had more), hit up About:Config and adjust the value in

Code:

browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.topSitesCount

gronf · 15 Nov 2017 at 02:35

After using CTR to keep tabs on the bottom for so long, it was hard to have them on top, but I'm getting used to it! I know there's still a script or something to get them back on bottom, that I think Orcvader linked me to a while ago (thanks), but meh

As for the new Firefox, it's clearly snappier, really liking it.

Glanza · 15 Nov 2017 at 08:47

Stuck it on this morning at work, going to see how it performs with my usual day to day usage and might make the switch back to FF after many years if it performs well.

#Chri5# · 15 Nov 2017 at 08:58

Orcvader said:
Might need to check here, should be able to hide/move them with CSS: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirefoxCSS/

Thanks - that pointed me in the right direction and I found this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/736cji/how_to_hide_native_tabs_in_firefox_57_tree_style/

Hides the top tabs and the caption of the side bar. Get a blank bar at the top of the screen which is a waste of a bit of space but removes the scrolling of the tabs which got annoying as it caught your eye.

Glanza · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:08

I use scriptblock on Chrome but doesn't appear to be a FF version yet, what's the best scriptblock to use?

darael · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:13

I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of the dark area to the right of the tabs. Other than a mix up of icons, I can't really see any difference in speed.

Orcvader · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:15

Glanza said:
I use scriptblock on Chrome but doesn't appear to be a FF version yet, what's the best scriptblock to use?

NoScript: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/noscript/

No Web Extension version yet, but the developer is hoping to get it out by the end of the week: https://hackademix.net/2017/11/14/double-noscript/

darael · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:31

Having used Firefox a little longer this morning, it does all seem a little faster. I am finding it uses the same amount of RAM as the last version, if not a little more - currently about 415MB of RAM with just this one tab open to post this.

What is really niggling me is the font on my online banking seems to have increased beyond comfortable. I don't know if this is an issue with Firefox or my bank.

mattyg · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:38

darael said:
Having used Firefox a little longer this morning, it does all seem a little faster. I am finding it uses the same amount of RAM as the last version, if not a little more - currently about 415MB of RAM with just this one tab open to post this.

What is really niggling me is the font on my online banking seems to have increased beyond comfortable. I don't know if this is an issue with Firefox or my bank.

Maybe I need to close some tabs before I jump across. Is that really 10Gb ram...lol

Chrome tabs

darael · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:44

mattyg said:
Maybe I need to close some tabs before I jump across. Is that really 10Gb ram...lol

Chrome tabs

That's 10.5GB of RAM. :eek:

mattyg · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:53

darael said:
That's 10.5GB of RAM.

My Mrs says I'm a hoarder...Looks like I'm hoarding tabs too, 85 of 'em

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2017 at 09:53

On my win 7 box, the spell checker works out the box. On my Windows 10 home PC I had to install the dictionary add-on? :confused:

Glanza · 15 Nov 2017 at 10:21

Option is ticked for spell checking but it doesn't appear to be working for me either on Win 10.

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2017 at 10:24

Glanza said:
Option is ticked for spell checking but it doesn't appear to be working for me either on Win 10.

Good to know it's not just me then.

opethdisciple · 15 Nov 2017 at 10:30

Glanza said:
Stuck it on this morning at work, going to see how it performs with my usual day to day usage and might make the switch back to FF after many years if it performs well.

I seem to have made the switch back after many years.

My one conundrum is whether to install flash or leave it installed. A minority if the web does still use flash.

BT Sport web for example only have a beta version of their non flash based player available. If available!