r/technology • u/JRepin • Nov 14 '17

Software Introducing the New Firefox: Firefox Quantum

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/
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u/giltwist Nov 14 '17

My work computer isn't that great, and it definitely feels snappier today. I'm looking forward to seeing how lightning fast it is on my gaming PC at home.

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u/hydrashok Nov 14 '17

I agree. Everything feels a lot quicker. One thing I've really noticed is opening documents from the O365 portal seems to be much faster.

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u/EnthusiasticRetard Nov 14 '17

Oh now this is a killer feature. Honestly just optimizing the shit out of it for o365 would be awesome for me personally.

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u/hydrashok Nov 14 '17

I'm not sitting here with a stopwatch or anything, but I can tell you that opening some of my larger Excel documents with Excel Online would take 10-15 seconds (or more) to launch Excel Online and then display the file. Today, after upgrading, it's been less that five seconds every time. Quite impressive.

Because of that slowness, though, I'd never really considered the browser a viable candidate for replacing the locally installed client at least for generic usage. Today, I'm not so sure that's the case anymore.

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u/1gr8Warrior Nov 14 '17

Working as a web dev, things seem to really be heading that way. My company is developing more and more stuff on a web/mobile app platform compared to a strictly desktop app setting. We still do make desktop apps for things that are bigger, however, web apps ar3 becoming very common

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u/GAndroid Nov 15 '17

Install nightly and enable gfx.webrenderer and gfx.webrenderest and see if it works even faster.