FWIW, I have tried FF 57 beta 3 for a day now, and I could see no regressions. It's just ridiculously fast.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:54 AM Gilles Dubuc <[email protected]> wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Adam Stevenson <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 2:07 AM > Subject: [mozilla-wikimedia-discuss] Firefox Quantum is in Beta > To: [email protected] > Cc: Harald Kirschner <[email protected]> > > > Dear Wikimedia, > > This year Mozilla has been working on our most significant release, > possibly ever. Firefox Quantum is going into Beta today [1]. It will be > shipping to users on November 14, 2017 as a major upgrade of Firefox’s > internals, building the foundation to make Firefox faster with every > release after. We’ve been actively testing these improvements in our > Nightly channel with great results. > > To make sure that we have not regressed Wikimedia properties but made them > faster, we would like your help in testing Firefox Beta. In particular > we’re interested in differences in rendering or functionality inadvertently > introduced and any impact on performance metrics. > > One of the major components of Firefox Quantum is Quantum CSS [2]. This new > CSS engine takes advantage of modern hardware, parallelizing work across > multiple cores. Some websites may depend on assumptions about the ordering > and timing of events that occur during the browser's rendering cycle, > particularly on page load. > > If you discover any issues, please report them to us through Bugzilla [3] > or reach out via our discuss mailing list. We are also here to help, > like setting up Firefox in your automated testing, running performance > benchmarks, or any other questions you have about the web & Firefox. > > Thanks for helping us push the web forward. > > Adam Stevenson > Mozilla > > [1]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/ > [2]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/08/inside-a-super- > fast-css-engine-quantum-css-aka-stylo/ > [3]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product= > Firefox&component=Untriaged > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mozilla-wikimedia-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > . > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/ > mozilla.com/d/msgid/mozilla-wikimedia-discuss/70C0C1E1- > 7C0F-4205-BEA8-D22A4EA95AD7%40mozilla.com > <http://mozilla.com/d/msgid/mozilla-wikimedia-discuss/70C0C1E1-7C0F-4205-BEA8-D22A4EA95AD7%40mozilla.com> > < > https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.com/d/msgid/mozilla-wikimedia-discuss/70C0C1E1-7C0F-4205-BEA8-D22A4EA95AD7%40mozilla.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > > > . > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
