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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 17 7:53 pm Post subject: Firefox Quantum
I like it. Bit less pretty but a shed load faster than old Firefox.

jema
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 8:53 am Post subject:
Firefox on my PC has to be watched or it hits 13gb of memory and kills the PC

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 9:11 am Post subject:
Quantum says it uses less than it used to and less than Chrome. Haven't looked at what's actually happening yet.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 11:25 am Post subject:
Thanks for the heads up Sean. Installed and now seeing what it is like.

Slim

Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 6612
Location: New England (In the US of A)

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 12:36 pm Post subject:
wow. You weren't kidding about faster (also less pretty)

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 2:00 pm Post subject:
upgrading OSX to High Sierra broke link opening between Thunderbird and chrome so I decide to give it a try More blocky but seems good The memory usage isn't terrible but they are also slightly disguising it as in OSX at least there are multiple threads tracked each using about 200MB so it isn't quite as low as you might think

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 3:45 pm Post subject:
Doesn't work with Active X, so if your bank relies on an Active X plugin then don't switch. I had to switch back. I can't say I noticed any extra speed but it certainly seemed more reliable, FF was crashing pretty much every day for me.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 4:02 pm Post subject:
I'm quite enjoying it. It does seem faster.

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 4:11 pm Post subject:
Tahir's in that London, his broadband's probably about a gazillion MBs.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45674
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 6:49 pm Post subject:
YeH our work B.B. is good but home is crap I’ll try it here

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 17 2:44 pm Post subject:
Well I have just done a very painful upgrade from 16.10 to 17.10. Went to 17.04 and the mouse was operating on the wrong screen Then going to 17.10 died, then the recovery console was seizing on loads of things trying to force the upgrade through. But it has to my surprised booted to Quantum, but I have lost tab-mix plus which was rather useful when you do run with dozens of open tabs.

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8938
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Nov 17, 17 6:13 pm Post subject:
I followed my usual ubuntu upgrades, and they included firefox..it is now seriously fast!

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