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posted by mrpg on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-extensions-dont-work dept.

From Firefox's faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out

[...] Collectively, the performance work being done to modernize Firefox is called Project Quantum. We took a closer look at Quantum back when Firefox 57 hit the developer channel in September, but the short version is, Mozilla is rebuilding core parts of the browser, such as how it handles CSS stylesheets, how it draws pages on-screen, and how it uses the GPU.

This work is being motivated by a few things. First, the Web has changed since many parts of Firefox were initially designed and developed; pages are more dynamic in structure and applications are richer and more graphically intensive. JavaScript is also more complex and difficult to debug. Second, computers now have many cores and simultaneous threads, giving them much greater scope to work in parallel. And security remains a pressing concern, prompting the use of new techniques to protect against exploitation. Some of the rebuilt portions are even using Mozilla's new Rust programming language, which is designed to offer improved security compared to C++.

Also at: Firefox aims to win back Chrome users with its souped up Quantum browser

The fastest version of Firefox yet is now live


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  • (Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:42PM (8 children)

    by Nerdfest (80) on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:42PM (#597676)

    If uBlock has migrated, odds are that uMatrix has as well, and in my opinion, it's superior to NoScript.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:58PM (6 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:58PM (#597687) Journal

    uBlock is for scrubs, uMatrix is for PROs.

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    • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday November 16 2017, @04:16PM (3 children)

      by RS3 (6367) on Thursday November 16 2017, @04:16PM (#597748)

      uBlock is for scrubs, uMatrix is for PROs.

      I guess I'm somewhere in between. uBlock0 is usually on; uMatrix when I'm in the mood to do a ton of clicking. Unlike so many control panels / options / settings menus these days, you have to be sure to save after teaching uMatrix, or all that clicking was for naught. Not sure if they have a way to export that info, it would be great to be able to copy it to other computers.

      • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @08:03PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @08:03PM (#597862)

        1. You can use the sync feature to sync setting between computers or just export the rules in the dashboard for bot uMatrix and uBlock.

        2. You can set uBlock to "I am an advanced user" and then it adds a clickable field like uMatrix, but not quite as detailed. See: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode [github.com] although I use "hard mode" myself.

        • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:14PM (1 child)

          by RS3 (6367) on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:14PM (#597903)

          Awesome, very informative, thank you!

          My typical brute-force mode is to just copy the extension's whole sub-directory.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @02:28AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @02:28AM (#598039)

            I forgot to mention, Firefox and Chrome both have limits on how much data you can sync, so if you have too many, you may have to roll your own. Luckily, that is stupidly easy if you know what you are doing, but can be frustratingly difficult if you don't.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @08:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @08:57PM (#597892)

      Fine, scrubs whatever. Do I have the TIME to clickify everything? That is where NoScript operates so easily. With FF57, what add-ons should I add. Is uMatrix a superset of uOrigin, so no need for the latter, or totally different? What else should I add in? Not trying to be funny here, but there are thousands of add-ons and most of them are nonsense, but a few can enhance security and improve the surfing experience.

    • (Score: 1) by Crash on Friday November 17 2017, @09:03AM

      by Crash (1335) on Friday November 17 2017, @09:03AM (#598113)
      uMatrix is pretty awesome (and works for 95%+ of my usage), but it does not allow you to blacklist-or-whitelist specific resources. So you pretty much need to use both of Gorhill's extensions (uMatrix & uBlock) if you need finer than domain-level contol.
  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Thursday November 16 2017, @02:12PM

    by KritonK (465) on Thursday November 16 2017, @02:12PM (#597698)

    Indeed, it has migrated. Not much of a surprise, as it was already working in chrome. It probably needed few, if any, changes, to run in firefox.

    As to which is better, that is a matter of preference. With noscript, I have enabled "Temporarily allow top-level sites by default / Base 2nd level Domains", and most sites work as intended, with the possible exceptions of embedded multimedia, if they are served from another host, e.g., youtube, in which case I only need to allow that host. With uMatrix, I have to micromanage every single site, specifying not only the hosts from which it is allowed to use resources, but the kind of resources it is allowed to use as well. Theoretically, one can come up with the minimum amount of permissions that one needs to enable, in order for a site to work. In practice, this is way too much work, not to mention that one needs to actually understand what all these kinds of resources are. With uMatrix, I find myself enabling all the resources of host after host (example.com, cdn.example.com, images.example.com, whydotheyusesomanyhostnamesat.example.com, etc.), then doing it again, as some resources need to be enabled individually, with the process often getting out of hand, as the list of hosts keeps increasing, each time one is enabled. Thus, I prefer using noscript.