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Firefox Quantum - The newest, fastest version of Firefox yet. 🔥🦊

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Firefox Quantum is the newest, fastest version of Firefox yet. Launches November 14, 2017. Available in beta now for all.

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Daniel Fitzpatrick
Am I misinterpreting the video, or does it just show that firefox and chrome are about the same speed with some negligible differences on occasion... Thats fine, if so. Just seems like a weird way to market something.
Sam Ayres
@dancyfits To be honest Chrome has been in a league of it's own for so long, I guess it is boastful advertising to have similar browser render times.
Angel
@dancyfits I was thinking the same thing lol, But if its an honest review I guess it matters which one of those sites you use the most to be able to choose which browser works best suited for you
Jonas Gierer
Refined Github
@dancyfits It's about as fast as Chrome, but it's using much less RAM (which isn't mentioned in the video for some reason)
Duarte Martins
@dancyfits I like the honesty. Recently saw a talk by them and they said they expect to see 2-3x speed improvements in the next 18 months or so.
brandon hoe
Helium Core
@dancyfits @duarteosrm Are you referring to Chrome or Firefox?
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
Direct shots at Google Chrome (see the video). Speed is a top priority for me, but I have so many Chrome Extensions that I don't want to lose. Request for product: Chrome Extension to Firefox Add-On converter.
Jonas Gierer
Refined Github
@rrhoover Firefox Quantum also deprecates the old proprietary Add-On format so the new cross-browser extension format WebExt is now the only way to publish Add-Ons for FF. With that, it's extremely easy to convert Chrome plugins into Firefox Add-Ons. Our previously Chrome-exclusive plugin (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) took maybe a few hours to convert and publish to the Firefox Add-On store.
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
@jgierer12 ahh! Good to know.
Amanpreet Singh
Arun
Hunter
@rrhoover @apsops I knew this was available!
Nick Woodhams
FAXY
@rrhoover @apsops Didn't seem to work for me on gleeBox. https://chrome.google.com/websto...
Patrick Bollenbach
Recipe Kit for Shopify
Firefox 57 is seriously a gamechanger. It is ridiculously fast + nice sleeping at night knowing that Google isn't stealing absolutely every piece of information about me
Arun
Hunter
@patrickbolle absolutely. I have always use Firefox and moved to Google Chrome a few days back on a friend's suggestions. I am back to using Firefox again with Firefox Quantum. The screenshots tool that comes with Firefox Quantum is my most favorite.
Philip Young
Session
@patrickbolle Hi Patrick!
Patrick Bollenbach
Recipe Kit for Shopify
@philipyoungg Hahah hello Philip! Stay warm for me, it's cold up here in Canada!
Shahrukh Ahmad
@patrickbolle "nice sleeping at night knowing that Google isn't stealing absolutely every piece of information about me" - This is serious
Zach Dubos
Ask search? Really?
G G
If only they had multiple accounts like chrome. I currently have about 26 of my 30+ google accounts loaded in chrome. If Firefox had multiple users with the ease of switching between them I would switch. Also Firefox needs to support HLS video streaming and give up on only supporting OGG.
Alan Williams
@androidlove Multiple accounts are supported https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox...
G G
@astropiloto Thank you, switching today! The least amount of data Google receives the better.
Ryan Coleman
@androidlove @astropiloto Can the multi-accounts support separate bookmark groups? I use different chrome profiles depending on my workflow and each has their own set of bookmarks. I'd rather not converge them all into one bar
Alan Williams
@androidlove @ryan_coleman No they don't, sorry.
Fang-Pen Lin
Monoline
@androidlove Tried Firefox Multi-Account Containers, it works pretty well, but still missing some key features, like per window account session. Pressing CMD + T is always opening a default tab without container. It takes long time to long tap on plus button and select container. It would be nice if this feature can be improved, then it would be perfect!
Ivan Penchev

Have been using it for some time now and migrated everything from Chrome. The Firefox Quantum features a great speed improvement, indeed, and a sleek new UI. (Look at the update below). However, I don't really like that the address and the search bar aren't taking the whole empty space but are rather constricted in the center of the toolbar. This creates some awkward blank space around them and on the right side, it feels like there are several missing toolbar icons. Everything else I've seen about the UI feels great, especially the tabs, the colors and how unobtrusive the new UI is in the browsing experience.

Update: As others have pointed out in the comments, the whitespace around the toobar could be removed and the toolbar icons can be customized so this is not an issue.

It might be me, but I have also observed some issues with pages rendering (the Firefox install I'm currently running is clean from ad-blockers and such plugins). For example, when I open a startup page on BetaList, the main image is never loaded. It might also be a compatibility issue of this particular websites.

I especially like the sync feature and the ability to easily make page (or element) screenshots directly within the browser and without looking for thrid-party extensions.

Pros:

Speed; UI; Sync; Ability to do page screenshots;

Cons:

Found several websites which work great on Chrome but have issues with Firefox;

You can change to use the address bar as a search engine and get rid of that search box on the right in Preferences > Search. I'm not sure about your other concern but I think it's fantastic.
Mann Hing
If you right click the tool/search bar section, firefox included whitespace "icons" you can remove that will fix the issue you have with the blank space around the search bar.
Ivan Penchev
@dorelljames, @hingadingaling thanks a lot, so the concern about the white space is out and the ability to customize these icons makes it even better. After several more days of use, if I exclude the rendering issues (which might as well be websites' compatibility issues, not browsers') it feels great.
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Arthur
TikTok Super Tool
IMO chrome is not just a browser. It’s the whole ecosystem that google has built around it which makes it hard to switch. So even if Firefox is faster it will take more than that to make me switch
Emmanuel Lemor
@arthur_sav There is truth to that but it's not a good ecosystem so I'll take a bit more fragmentation for better everything else...
Arun
Hunter
🔥 @firefox Quantum is finally launching today! I have been using Firefox Quantum for over 1 month now and I am thoroughly impressed - faster performance, doesn't hog on my computer memory, and not to forget the all-new Firefox Screenshots feature available on Firefox Quantum. Don't forget to give it a try when it's available today. 👏
Mario Daskalov

I have used firefox almost exclusively. Fooled around with chrome for some time but I wasn't happy with the memory usage on my machine. The only thing I missed in firefox was the speed. Chrome used to perform better than firefox but that has changed now!

Pros:

It is faster than ever.

Cons:

I am not sure I am into the whole "integrating external services intro the browser".

brandon hoe
Helium Core
That's the reason I don't use Chrome, even though it's speedier than Safari. It's an absolute resource hog. Looking forward to having a speedier alternative to Safari now!
Amir
This is actually noticeably faster. I don't think that I'll move from Safari but now I know another good alternative to recommend to people.
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