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Not Surprising given Mozilla Stance to duplicate and support everything Google does in a effort to chase relevancy again

Mozilla has lost the ability to be an independent protector of the Open Web

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It's sad because they don't need to. Quantum is great, and you can remap your keybinds and use MaterialFox to get (almost) the exact same experience. Of course your average pleb won't go through this effort, but people need to know how good Firefox has gotten.

And to the people who disagree: Firefox has always been great, but it often came with a lot of bugs and inconveniences. It didn't use to be as accessible.

https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox

> Quantum is great, and you can remap your keybinds

Please explain how. Since firefox 57 (quantum), there's precisely no way to do that properly...

Have they fixed the issue with excessive resource consumption when using Firefox on a Retina MacBook?

I tried to switch to FF on multiple occasions, but it's a CPU hog on MacBook. Why is this issue ignored for so long?

"Resource consumption" in the parent comment refers to power efficiency, specifically GPU blits. That issue has not been ignored. I don't know what "CPU hog" refers to; the issue is not about CPU usage.

It's consuming ~20% CPU in idle on my machine (MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015, 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1867 MHz DDR3, macOS Mojave 10.14.6)

Based on what I saw the last time I checked Mozilla's bug tracker, the issue has a low priority and no one is actively working to resolve it.

From what I understand, it's a low level rendering issue.

That's not true. There was a roadmap posted yesterday and patches to begin to address the issue landed this week, including a new preference to opt into Core Animation. This is Markus' top priority at present. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

Source: I wrote the initial version of those patches, though I think Markus has basically rewritten them all at this point.

My mistake, I hadn't checked on the status in nearly a year. Glad to hear that progress is being made. Thanks for the update and patches!

By following Chrome every time Google wants to removes access to parts of the web not sufficiently encrypted (to thwart ISP competition for ads and data) or not serving ads (like FTP) Firefox is working to keep Chrome relevant.

It has been going on for years.

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