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I'm actually quite impressed with how Firefox Nightly is snappy. The only part missing, is Firefox slightly slower startup time (although that improved as well

by Ygg2 9y ago

I'm actually quite impressed with how Firefox Nightly is snappy. The only part missing, is Firefox slightly slower startup time (although that improved as well).

infogulch 9y ago
Yes nightly is really fast and I'm really enjoying using it. But the missing extensions (mostly LastPass in my case) is starting to grind, even though a large number of extensions are already ported.
- nyordanov 9y ago
  I switched to bitwarden. I'm more worried about Tab Groups than LastPass.
  - infogulch 9y ago
    Right. It looks like tree tabs is being ported too, which I'm glad about.
  - Crespyl 9y ago
    I've reluctantly given up on Tab Groups, but losing VimFX and FireGestures is still causing me pain. TabGroups was really unique in that it felt (to me) like the kind of interaction-redefining change that tabbed browsing was in the first place. I'm adjusting myself to using virtual desktops and KDEs WM-level tabs to compensate, but I still miss the addon.
adwhit 9y ago
Expecting a big publicity drive from Mozilla soon, because if Firefox 57 ends up as snappy as Nightly is right now, it could win back some of the people who want to support Firefox but eventually moved to Chrome for performance reasons. Then once WebRender lands, well, who knows? I assume Google are planning something in response - the continued dominance of Chrome is worth considerable $billions to them...
azinman2 9y ago
I’m impressed by how stable it is! I know it’s a nightly that’s two stable versions “behind,” yet it’s been totally solid for me so far. I’m surprised the built in containers left behind the extensions option to always a url open in a specific container. To me that’s the unique interesting bit — my banks can always be in my banking container, Facebook in a social, etc. By having the browser force the mapping I can make sure that I minimize cross-contamination, reducing attack surface area and increasing privacy.

by Ygg2 9y ago

I'm actually quite impressed with how Firefox Nightly is snappy. The only part missing, is Firefox slightly slower startup time (although that improved as well).

infogulch 9y ago

Yes nightly is really fast and I'm really enjoying using it. But the missing extensions (mostly LastPass in my case) is starting to grind, even though a large number of extensions are already ported.

nyordanov 9y ago
I switched to bitwarden. I'm more worried about Tab Groups than LastPass.
- infogulch 9y ago
  Right. It looks like tree tabs is being ported too, which I'm glad about.
- Crespyl 9y ago
  I've reluctantly given up on Tab Groups, but losing VimFX and FireGestures is still causing me pain. TabGroups was really unique in that it felt (to me) like the kind of interaction-redefining change that tabbed browsing was in the first place. I'm adjusting myself to using virtual desktops and KDEs WM-level tabs to compensate, but I still miss the addon.

adwhit 9y ago

Expecting a big publicity drive from Mozilla soon, because if Firefox 57 ends up as snappy as Nightly is right now, it could win back some of the people who want to support Firefox but eventually moved to Chrome for performance reasons. Then once WebRender lands, well, who knows? I assume Google are planning something in response - the continued dominance of Chrome is worth considerable $billions to them...

azinman2 9y ago

I’m impressed by how stable it is! I know it’s a nightly that’s two stable versions “behind,” yet it’s been totally solid for me so far. I’m surprised the built in containers left behind the extensions option to always a url open in a specific container. To me that’s the unique interesting bit — my banks can always be in my banking container, Facebook in a social, etc. By having the browser force the mapping I can make sure that I minimize cross-contamination, reducing attack surface area and increasing privacy.