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This has been my experience also.

However, I'll try Quantum and see if it improves the situation. I really don't want to be using Chrome.

57 really is a huge improvement, I can no longer feel any difference in responsiveness between firefox and chrome.

In some ways I think firefox has actually surpassed chrome (e.g. on my xps 13 touchpad scrolling is much more responsive/smoother in firefox)

Re: touchpad scrolling, make sure you disable "smooth" (animated) scrolling and enable precise scrolling; on Linux this requires setting MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 in the environment.

Nice, thanks!

Everything feels 10 times faster without smooth scrolling, while I have to say that the nightly already felt blazing fast _with_ smooth scrolling, haha.

This should be off by default. Feels and looks faster. What is the downside?

Tracking the thread through https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207700 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170342 (and ultimately https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93539 ) it appears that when XI2 is used, focus-out events were not sent in rare cases under old versions of Xorg. If you're running modern software there should be no downside.

Thanks. Could the Mozilla installer detect the version of Xorg and set ?

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