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Firefox Quantum

November 14, 2017, 07:11(EST) By Eric (a.k.a. TweakHound)

Firefox 57, a.k.a Firefox Quantum will be released today. It’s a big deal. Completely redesigned, the folks at Mozilla say it’s twice as fast and uses 30% less memory. In addition, the interface will be cleaner and is designed for high-resolution displays
If you want to know the hows see here: Entering the Quantum Era—How Firefox got fast again and where it’s going to get faster
One of the downsides of an all new browser is that many old add-ons will not work. It is up to the add-on creators to update their stuff. The hysterical, chicken-littles over at Zdnet call this “add-on armageddon“.
I’m pretty pumped about Firefox Quantum. I hope it returns Firefox to its former glory.

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  1. James says

    November 14, 2017, 08:25(EST) at 08:25

    Thanks for the HU Eric. Just updated my FF56 to FF57 and it is really snappy. Far faster than before (but then I have 5 add ons disabled, non of which should have had any impact on speed)

    Nothing new to get used to either (unless I haven’t found it yet)

    Liking it so far

  2. David Millians says

    November 14, 2017, 11:26(EST) at 11:26

    I wouldn’t say it’s an Armageddon, but it is a big deal. Having to change how you do things is not fun. Right now, at work, we’re on ESR because of this. It could mess up some apps, and we wanted to be sure that sites (E2020, for example) had all the time they need to fix it, so we could keep people off IE as much as possible.

    Personally, I’m not sure if Sage (an RSS feed reader) or NoScript are compatible. I would be hard-pressed to do without either of those.

  3. Yan says

    November 14, 2017, 12:46(EST) at 12:46

    A nice upgrade. But i’m tired of doing special GPO stuff and managing certificates differently with Firefox in my day-to-day sysadmin job. Until they change that, it will still be Chrome/IE for everyone in my company.

  4. Paul says

    November 15, 2017, 01:22(EST) at 01:22

    It may be faster, but more important to me is the user interface. Quite a bit of effort went into configuring Classic Theme Restorer, and judging by the number of users of this add-in a lot of other people also didn’t like the last UI “improvements”.

    Ugly is all I can say.

  5. Gary says

    November 17, 2017, 12:00(EST) at 12:00

    I installed 57 and after a few days of ugly UI, restored 52.5.0ESR and related settings. I’ll stick with ESR as long as I can.

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