On macOS: still waiting for interactions with the address bar to be smooth and fast. It's frustratingly laggy in my opinion. Does anyone else feel this way? For me it's the only reason I still gravitate towards Chrome on a Mac.
AIUI, Mozilla is rewriting the address bar ("QuantumBar"), and you can now toggle it on in Nightly by setting browser.urlbar.quantumbar to true in about:config. I've only tried it on Linux, but it seems smoother.
Thanks for the pointer, the toggle works in stable too but the smoothness you describe just isn't there yet :)
When did the "Awesome Bar" become the "Quantum Bar", what's the difference, and why can't they call it the "address bar" (yes despite it being overloaded with other functions)?
It's this rewrite specifically that's called QuantumBar.
Appears performant to me on a 2015 MBP. What's the use case in which you see problems?
Have this same problem. 2015 rMBP. The FF UI feels so much more laggy than Chrome/Safari.
have this exact same problem on my 2015 rMBP, switching between tabs quickly is hideous.