Firefox 57 Released

[Chiefcrowe]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/57.0/releasenotes


Loving the speed so far! May have to find a replacement for the flagfox addon though...

 

[cbn]

I am very happy too!

 

[PowerEngineer]

Yes, I just received the update to 57 and so far so good. I was relieved to see that my few add-ins had already been updated to be compatible with this release.

 

[Beer4Me]

It's very cool, but much more Chrome-like in terms of look and feel. Depending on your preference, this isn't a bad thing. I have noticed that my yahoo mail keeps logging me out even if I tell it to keep me signed in. Hmmm.

 

[stockwiz]

Good to see! Much faster! Will give it another try and see how it performs.

 

[Dahak]

Just got it too... not sure if I notice any difference honestly. It seems to be just as fast as before
Now have to wait or try to find some replacement add-ons for the following

• EnchancedSteam -- absolutly needed, to prevent buy stuff twice
  
• FireGestures ( how does FF not have native mouse gestures?) Or some other mouse gestures SmartUP as replacement
  
• Opendownload2 (seems function is now built in?)
• Status4Evar - nice to have the status bar back

 

[ronbo613]

And just like that, all my add-ons are disabled. I'll check back in a week or so.

 

[Dahak]

Well two things that I found out

1 -- I have noticed some screen tearing when scrolling, for example even on these forums.
-Turning on hardware acceleration seems to have fixed it

2 -- I like my tabs and bookmark toolbar below the main address bar so had to do the following
create userchrome.css file in the following location

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\RANDOM.default\chrome

and add the following to it

@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* only needed once */

#navigator-toolbox toolbar:not(#nav-bar):not(#toolbar-menubar) {-moz-box-ordinal-group:10}
#TabsToolbar {-moz-box-ordinal-group:100!important}

 

[Elixer]

Just got it too... not sure if I notice any difference honestly. It seems to be just as fast as before
Now have to wait or try to find some replacement add-ons for the following

• EnchancedSteam -- absolutly needed, to prevent buy stuff twice
  
• FireGestures ( how does FF not have native mouse gestures?) Or some other mouse gestures
  
• Opendownload2 (seems function is now built in?)
• Status4Evar - nice to have the status bar back

I also miss noscript... these days, it is pretty much required.

 

[bononos]

I also miss noscript... these days, it is pretty much required.

Why? I haven't used anything like it in Chrome based browsers and haven't ran into issues?

 

[nemesismk2]

i am very happy with firefox 57 which is very good

 

[Dahak]

Here is a link to Google Doc that has a list of popular addons and if they are ported or not

And with that, I found a replacement for FireGestures called smartUp Gestures Here

 

[Bouowmx]

Mozilla Firefox 57 offers statistically significant speed-up over 52.5 ESR (32-bit, is not using 64-bit important?) in JavaScript benchmarks JetStream (142 to 170), Kraken (1300 to 1100 ms), and Octane (27k to 30k) on Intel Core i5-7200U 3.1 GHz (SpeedShift Energy-Performance Preference 2) and DDR4-2133 C15. What happened?

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Page renders seems waaaay faster to me. All my core extensions are still compatible but it seems like some adblocking isn't working quite right as I have blank gaps on pages.

Maybe spoke too soon... when opening a new tab the whole browser seems to lock up sometimes.

 

[Elixer]

Why? I haven't used anything like it in Chrome based browsers and haven't ran into issues?

With flash being pretty much dead (finally!), the next avenue of attack uses Javascript.
I like to know exactly what a site wants me to run on my web client, and authorized accordingly.

 

[LTC8K6]

Seems far snappier to me and I have had no glitches so far.

 

[FeuerFrei]

I see Mozilla is advertising this release. Good time to add new users I guess, with a new extension model implemented.

 

[mikeymikec]

Yeesh at the new UI, did they think they've copied Chrome enough and now it's time to take a page out of Edge's book?

 

[Dahak]

Yeesh at the new UI, did they think they've copied Chrome enough and now it's time to take a page out of Edge's book?

Yeah, I had to tweak it abit by using the userchrome.css as mentioned about and a different color theme

 

[deustroop]

Does anyone know of an add on, like Theme Font and Size Changer, which no longer does just that, so I can increase the size and colour of the fonts used on the Bookmarks Toolbar ? The eyes are going.

 

[urvile]

I like it. The new UI design is awesome. I haven't had any problems with add ons and the memory footprint is much, much smaller.

 

[UsandThem]

After reading some reviews here, I downloaded it and I am going to test it out. I was a long-time Firefox user until Symantec/Firefox didn't place nice together, and Identity Safe (Symantec extensions) wouldn't work at all with it for something like 18 months. I then switched over to Chrome. Hopefully this new version is good enough for me to switch back.

 

[DaisyDog]

2 -- I like my tabs and bookmark toolbar below the main address bar so had to do the following
create userchrome.css file in the following location

C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\RANDOM.default\chrome

and add the following to it

Thanks for this tip, works well !!

Tabs on top was really starting to bug me as it was the first thing I set when Classic Theme Restorer was still working.

Just one question though - will this code keep working with subsequent releases?
I seem to recall reading somewhere that these .css scripts become non-functional if the version FF version changes.

 

[Puffnstuff]

My 57 updated to 58b4 yesterday.

 

[pcslookout]

I like Firefox 57 a lot!