It's amazing how much quicker this version of Firefox is.

https://www.onmsft.com/news/firefox-quantum-developer-edition-released-the-fastest-firefox-ever
Firefox Quantum Developer Edition released: the fastest Firefox ever | On MSFTMozilla today released FireFox Quantum Developer Edition. The company is calling this the fastest Firefox ever and is highlighting the new features making Firefox feel like a newer, faster, and better browser. Firefox Quantum is powered by Quantum CSS, which is a new CSS engine written in Rust …
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by:Brian Matis
Lately, I've been feeling a strong urge to use Chrome less on my Windows systems... Definitely checking this out to see if it'll push me back over to using Firefox as my main browser again. Thanks for the link and your opinion on it, Brandon!
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by:Nicholas
Tested a few webpages against normal Firefox and the old was better
What exactly is faster?

One site I tested had a dark top banner which made the whole top of the browser indistinguishable from the webpage - not sure why they went to the dark side
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by:Brandon Lyon
Pages load quicker. It should be very apparent (at least it was for me using Win10 on a fast computer). Firefox themselves say that pages render ~ 2x as fast.
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by:Nicholas
Probably the old "in lab conditions we got x amount of miles to the gallon"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3252717/Now-t-trust-car-giants-mpg-VW-scandal-Mercedes-BMW-accused-fuel-efficiency.html

It certainly wasn't faster for me but I'm probably not viewing the right webpage...
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