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    Default Firefox Quantum is out!

    It’s fast. Really fast. Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new look designed to get out of the way and let you do what you do best: surf a ton of pages, open a zillion tabs, all guilt free because Firefox Quantum uses less memory than the competition. Your computer will thank you.
    https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
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    So why them never just add all these features and update existing Firefox???

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    Could it be that their new engine comes from chrome

    it uses alot of process just like chrome out of the box

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    Please tell me this is not a chromium clone like what opera did. I would be so disappoint. downloading now. hopefully it will work on my oldass machine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dre' View Post
    Could it be that their new engine comes from chrome

    it uses alot of process just like chrome out of the box

    https://i.imgur.com/qZeljwK.png
    They use 4 processes to manage your tabs, as is seen in your screenshot. Chrome uses more.
    They outlined their change in the following blog:
    https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/0...etter-firefox/
    https://blog.mozilla.org/futurerelea...ocess-firefox/

    They call it E10s.
    With today’s release (Firefox 54), Firefox uses up to four processes to run web page content across all open tabs. This means that a heavy, complex web page in one tab has a much lower impact on the responsiveness and speed in other tabs. By separating the tabs into separate processes, we make better use of the hardware on your computer, so Firefox can deliver you more of the web you love, with less waiting.
    You can change how much processes Firefox uses in your Options menu. The max is 7. Default seems to be 4.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Arch_Angel View Post
    They use 4 processes to manage your tabs, as is seen in your screenshot. Chrome uses more.
    They outlined their change in the following blog:
    https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/0...etter-firefox/
    https://blog.mozilla.org/futurerelea...ocess-firefox/

    They call it E10s.


    You can change how much processes Firefox uses in your Options menu. The max is 7. Default seems to be 4.

    The extra processes that you see for chrome are my extensions,1 per a process as they are sand-boxed. I have about 6-7 extensions.This would be same for firefox as well 1 process per extension as only web page content is limited to 4 process by default.

    I do however like this new Electrolysis (E10s) engine from what i'm reading where it is able to utilize all cores on the processors.

    When I have the time i'll try to migrate a few extensions to it and use it for a week throughout.
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    well it works in windows 7. in xp you get the old version with is ESP, It certainly consumes less memory than chrome and locks up less. I give it a 8 out of 10.

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    I'll upgrade on my Win10 laptop for sure but wonder how it stacks up with Safari on the MacOS. Firefox uses way more energy than Safari on my MacBook Pro.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dre' View Post
    The extra processes that you see for chrome are my extensions,1 per a process as they are sand-boxed. I have about 6-7 extensions.This would be same for firefox as well 1 process per extension as only web page content is limited to 4 process by default.
    I see, I see. I don't use any extensions so I only see 4 processes being used up at any one time.
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    Google is also the default search again for Firefox Quantum.

    Yahoo has been in a bad spot light since the email hacks.
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