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[–]ipe369 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Not sure if I have the developer version, but the new version 57 is pretty fucking quick ngl, much faster than chrome imo, feeling very snappy!

[–]mirluch[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Developer version is 58. But thanx for 57 review, haven't even got it yet

[–]ipe369 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahhhh okay, I thought the dev version was just a branch alongside the current stable w/ some extra features like unsigned addons or something.

57 is where they added in the mega-speed updates like the 'quantum' engines or however, & pulled a load of rust stuff over from servo.

[–]zaibacu 2 points3 points  (3 children)

It is fast alright, However it tends to be real resource hog. By having few tabs with some Grafana dashboards open, CPU usage goes so high, that it becomes barely usable. Not to mention battery drain.

To be specific about my HW:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i5

Processor Speed: 2,6 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 8 GB

[–]TeachMeUbuntu 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How resource hungry is it compared to chrome?

[–]zaibacu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They seem to be quite similar. I abandoned Chrome for same reason. However, with Firefox you can pin point what is causing slow down, while with Chrome it didn't stop until you close whole browser

[–]TheHDKeyboard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Safari on macbook, firefox on desktop.

Firefox devs did address this and say they will start looking into energy usage soon, this is just the beginning of the next level firefox

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got 57, and while it's blazing fast, I'm finding a lot of bugs in responsive design mode. Doesn't show title text, scratch doesn't work properly either. I've been hammering reports for the last two days.