Mozilla launches new Firefox today

Fudzilla ^ | 11/15/2017 | Nick Farrell

[Elderberry]

Quantum it is rather good

Mozilla today launched Firefox 57, branded Firefox Quantum, for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. We have been running it for a month or so and it is rather good.

Mozilla calls Quantum “by far the biggest update since Firefox 1.0 in 2004”, but even ignoring the hyperbole it does bring much needed performance improvements and a visual redesign to the Firefox stable.

Firefox 57 for the desktop is available for download now on Firefox.com, and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. The Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play, and the iOS version - which is usually updated separately from the other platforms - should eventually arrive on Apple’s App Store.

Mozilla says that Firefox Quantum is twice as fast as Firefox was six months ago, and according to the still in development) Speedometer 2.0 benchmark, it also uses 30 percent less memory than Chrome.

While Firefox has historically run mostly on just one CPU core, Firefox Quantum finally takes advantage of multiple CPU cores on desktop and mobile. Firefox Quantum features a faster CSS engine written in Rust that runs quickly, in parallel across multiple CPU cores, instead of running in one slower sequence on a single core.

Firefox Quantum prioritizes the tab being used before other tabs you have open in the background. It includes a new CSS engine called Stylo, which takes better advantage of multiple CPU cores that are optimised for low power consumption.

[goldstategop]

Thunderbird is tied to the ESR release schedule so you won’t have to worry about upgrading until next summer.

[goldstategop]

You could run FF ESR indefinitely for the same reason I run Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB.

I’m sick and tired of constant upgrade churn.

[beergarden]

“Hard to believe anyone here still uses Firefox after they booted their founder for supporting traditional marriage.”

****

Yup. Freepers have short memories. I dropped it and the same conservative guy told everyone to use Brave. One of the longest boycotts for me so far..

[Elderberry]

Let me know what you go to. I’m a Thunderbird user as well.

[goldstategop]

I run CF. Based off FF ESR and is rock-solid for me and compatible with FF extensions.

I have Waterfox and Pale Moon installed as well.

[beergarden]

I have Opera which changes the ip address for me so I have a free VPN. Until now, Im not sure how I did it.

[CatOwner]

Thanks for the link. I don’t see any indication of how long the support will continue. At some point, Mozilla will force companies/users off of this version.

[Dr. Sivana]

Hard to believe anyone here still uses Firefox after they booted their founder for supporting traditional marriage.

Hard to believe anyone still uses Internet Explorer or Edge when Bill Gates and Microsoft matches to the Brady Campaign, is a corporate supporter of the liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress, is a partner of The Nature Conservancy,contributes to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which supports abortion, contributes to Girls, Inc., which is a pro-abortion organization,is a corporate contributor to Achieve, Inc., which is a liberal educational organization that supports Common Core, is a sponsor for the League of United Latin American Citizen’s (LULAC) 2017 National Gala, which advocates for sanctuary cities, is a member of Georgia Prospers, Accessed 8/11/16. Georgia Prospers is a coalition of businesses opposing religious liberty ... etc, etc. etc.

Hard to believe anyone still uses Google Chrome when everything Google does is about collecting personal data, and the company fired someone for writing a well-thought out memo for internal consumption questioning political correctness. Google is actively helping the communist Chinese government suppress dissent while simply blacklisting free speech it dislikes in the United States altogether.

Hard to believe anyone still uses Apple Safari when Tim Cook has made it clear that Apple will use it's considerable financial and corporate clout to promote the social left agenda across the board.

The rest are all using Mozilla or Chrome engines, except for a handful of Linux only niche browsers. Everyone's hands are dirty.

I continue to use Firefox and derivatives because:

I won't use a browser that doesn't have a full menu bar.

I don't like anything that is attached to the Google or Facebook borg-like eco-system if I can avoid it.

I won't use a product that crashes/doesn't work a substantial amount of the time (IE/Edge) except when necessary [e.g. for employer or browser-specific web apps] (IE).

[AndyTheBear]

Don’t like using Mozzlia products after what they did to Brenden Eich.

[LegendHasIt]

So, how much built in spyware is in it?

What does it report of your browsing, and to whom does it report?

[zeugma]

It will also break almost any extension you have.

[CatOwner]

Actually, I found my answer here:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/faq/

Looks like ESR 52.* is good through June 2018.

[Gene Eric]

To this day, I refuse to use Mozilla software. The wretched freaks that forced out Brendan Eich don’t deserve a share of the market Eich helped to create.

[Gene Eric]

>> Hard to believe anyone here still uses Firefox after they booted their founder for supporting traditional marriage.

Agreed. And it’s not necessary.

[Revel]

“Let me know what you go to. I’m a Thunderbird user as well.”

You don’t have to use Firefox in order to use Thunderbird. I don’t of any direct correlation between them.

[CedarDave]

Agreed. And it’s not necessary.

Well, I disagree. If you look at tech notes/reviews for the Firefox clones (Palemoon, Waterfox) they have technical issues. As far as Google Chrome goes, harvesting of your browsing info is a problem, and MS Explorer is becoming ancient which is why they want you to use MS Edge.

As for Firefox, I'm using an extension that allows posting of links, images, bolding, lists and use of italics with only a single click. It makes my use of HTML with FR much, much easily. Several other extensions (such as word count, speed dial, classic theme restorer among others) make browsing much easier.

[tomkat]

Reckon they're up to about version 1,447 by now, ehh ?

Btw, FF = gaystapo collaborators

[uncbob]

Thanks for that link
I did the same thing

New one was driving me goofy

[uncbob]

Thanks

[tomkat]

Laughing WITH you   ;-)