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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 41910
Location: North Devon
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 Posted: Tue Nov 14, 17 7:53 pm Post subject: Firefox Quantum |
 
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I like it. Bit less pretty but a shed load faster than old Firefox. |
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jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 26621
Location: escaped from Swindon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 8:53 am Post subject: |
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Firefox on my PC has to be watched or it hits 13gb of memory and kills the PC  |
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sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 41910
Location: North Devon
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 9:11 am Post subject: |
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Quantum says it uses less than it used to and less than Chrome. Haven't looked at what's actually happening yet. |
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 6174
Location: Just south of north.
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 11:25 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the heads up Sean. Installed and now seeing what it is like.  |
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Slim
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Posts: 5282
Location: New England (In the US of A)
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 17 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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wow. 
You weren't kidding about faster (also less pretty) |
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bagpuss
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
Posts: 10507
Location: cambridge
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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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 |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44144
Location: Essex
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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Chez
Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35904
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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I'm quite enjoying it. It does seem faster. |
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sean
Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 41910
Location: North Devon
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Tahir's in that London, his broadband's probably about a gazillion MBs. |
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tahir
Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 44144
Location: Essex
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| Posted: Thu Nov 16, 17 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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YeH our work B.B. is good but home is crap I’ll try it here |
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jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 26621
Location: escaped from Swindon
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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. |
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gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 6355
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
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| Posted: Fri Nov 17, 17 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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I followed my usual ubuntu upgrades, and they included firefox..it is now seriously fast! |
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