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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
(Score: 2) by srobert on Thursday November 16 2017, @02:18PM (4 children)
... are all broken. Vimium-FF or Saka-Key, Print Edit WE, are mediocre substitutes for the first 2. I haven't found a plugin for the 3rd.
(Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Thursday November 16 2017, @06:21PM (2 children)
Playing around with "It's All Text" right now...this is baller.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 1) by Crash on Friday November 17 2017, @09:24AM (1 child)
Not sure I get the point... You can write in your text editor of choice, and then copy-paste into the browsers text-box.
So "It's All Text!" saves you a couple seconds of Activating an Editor, Copy, Activating Browser and Pasting?
And the time savings is questionable, as you have to save the text in the editor to a file.
(Score: 2) by mechanicjay on Wednesday November 22 2017, @12:03AM
I don't know...it opens your editor of chioce at a single click and your text automatically appears in the textbox when you :wq. I guess it only "saves a few seconds", but it also saves like 3 or 4 discreet actions. I'm not sold on it myself yet, but if you do a *lot* of textarea entry, I could see it being more useful.
My VMS box beat up your Windows box.
(Score: 1) by Mike on Saturday November 18 2017, @12:06AM
I've been looking for a replacement for 'It's all text' (and IIRC emacstext, i.e. c-f c-b etc. for moving the cursor in a textarea, which I haven't found). I did find GhostText which looks to be compatible with the FireFox changes. That allows connecting to a number of different editors.