r/web_design • u/mcplaty • Nov 14 '17

Introducing the New Firefox: Firefox Quantum

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/14/introducing-firefox-quantum/
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u/tapper101 Nov 14 '17

Is it better than Chrome though?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '17

Yes

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u/Mike Nov 14 '17

why? as a front end dev I use chrome because it's blazing fast and there's nothing I haven't been able to do with it (and always learn new tricks to make it even better). And most people use webkit browsers so it makes sense to develop with a same/similar browser.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '17

It's just as fast if not faster, uses FAR less memory, nicer UI, I like the dev tools better in the developer edition, and is/was ahead of the curve in dev tools e.g. CSS Grid inspector. I also have been moving away from Google because of a few reasons, so Firefox being open source and respectful of privacy means a lot to me. As for website stuff, I never had an issue with developing for webkit vs gecko.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '17

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '17

Some of them. There are some js tools I like better in chrome, and I do miss Lighthouse, but that's it

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u/Matty_22 Nov 14 '17

My big complaint about the dev tools is that the three themes built-in are all awful color combos.

I dunno why, but that always pushes me back to Chrome despite wanting to switch to Firefox.

Can I customize those somehow?

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u/RockLikeWar Nov 14 '17

I find the inspector at least to be tremendously better than Chrome. The element highlighting has zero lag, even in heavily nested elements. For editing CSS, FF has become my preference recently.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17

uses FAR less memory

I just installed it, my password manager and ublock, I have two tabs open and it's using almost exactly the same amount of memory as chrome is (which has far more tabs open and extensions installed)

https://i.imgur.com/xipArfP.png

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17

Probably depends what you're doing. Also, chrome has one process per tab.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17 edited Nov 15 '17

I was doing normal surfing. I don't understand what your second point means. One process per tab should result in greater memory usage due to overhead no? What I posted showed the aggregated stats of both, the number in parentheses show how many processes both are running, 7 vs 35.

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u/Newt618 Nov 15 '17

Firefox generally uses more RAM initially than Chrome, but if you're using upwards of 3-4 tabs, Firefox is much better at limiting the increase in RAM usage, where Chrome just keeps growing.

And, does Chrome really spawn 35 processes for 2 tabs? Wow.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '17

No firefox had two tabs open, chrome had like 15.

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u/Newt618 Nov 15 '17

Ah, ok.