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Cool!

As an aside, I've been migrating away from Chrome for a while - and I posted here a while back being dismayed by how terrible Firefox was, how slow/etc it was, etc. Many people suggested I switch to nightly.

Nightly is .. a night and day experience. I've been fully switched from Chrome now, thanks to Firefox. Note that on OSX I've had no complaints with Safari as my Chrome replacement, so I've stuck with them - but on windows it's all Firefox.

Keep up the great work guys, the new stuff is amazing. Hope you can push it to stable branch soon for people. :)

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Just installed Nightly thinking "how can it be any different from the Developer Edition?" ... Wow, I couldn't be more wrong!

It is indeed a night and day experience! More approachable UI, and much faster performance... Big well-done to everyone working hard to keep Firefox competitive :-)

As an aside, whenever I click on a Slashdot article about Mozilla and Firefox...ALMOST ALL the comments bash Mozilla and Firefox to pieces...and mostly from anonymous posters.

On HN we seem to get reasoned arguments for or against Mozilla and Firefox, but not seemingly mindless hate.

Now I know that HN is a higher class forum these days--Slasdot is not still in its heyday--but I have to say it is refreshing.

Wow, nightly is really impressive. Some operations like opening videos are crazily fast, almost feels native.

One conspicuous absence is that there's no way to save a web app to desktop, I use that a lot with Chromium on Linux.

You're likely experiencing the major performance improvements that come along with Firefox 57. In a few weeks the general release should feel that fast without some of the trade-offs that come with Nightly. The biggest downside to 57 I'm experiencing is that not all extensions have been updated to the new web extensions framework, so there are some workflows that don't work for me at the moment (LastPass, which is working on a new release, and Stylish, which I'm not sure will update).

> and Stylish, which I'm not sure will update

Stylish has a Chrome version so I'd guess they'll port that to Firefox for 57+. In the meantime there's Stylus, which is a fork of the Chrome version of Stylish:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/

Be careful about Stylish - since it was sold, it stirred a lot of the community by dropping the original ideals and including tracking software.

The change of hands happened after the last Firefox version update, so it should be safe for the time being.

If you follow why the Stylus extension was made (port from Chrome's Stylish), you can find more explanations.

Thank you so much to alerting me to this, I was completely unaware. Switching to Stylus now, which has the nice side effect of making me readier for 57.

I also don't know how much of that performance boost comes from just disabling all my extensions.

Yeah, I recently went full-bore over to Firefox and DuckDuckGo. I was been surprised by how easy the transition was. Firefox is way better than it was a few years ago.

Stable release of Firefox 57 is November 14th.

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