As a recent Firefox user, I'm super excited about the future evolution of the browser. I switched to Firefox Quantum after using Chrome as mainstay for over 9 years and I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the under-the-hood refinements and UX enhancements in v57.0 -- could clearly observe the impact of Gecko's upgraded Servo/Rust components at work.
Noticeable visible differences included page-load performance as well as a smaller memory footprint relative to Chrome.
Faster WebAssembly[0] starting from v58.0 made the speed optimization more visible -- it was at this point when I truly fell in love with the browser -- Firefox dethroned Chrome as my default. Add to this the hardened tracking protection, Greasemonkey's super massive stash of user scripts and values of the non-profit organization that supports the browser -- Chrome felt so old-school.
Noticeable visible differences included page-load performance as well as a smaller memory footprint relative to Chrome.
Faster WebAssembly[0] starting from v58.0 made the speed optimization more visible -- it was at this point when I truly fell in love with the browser -- Firefox dethroned Chrome as my default. Add to this the hardened tracking protection, Greasemonkey's super massive stash of user scripts and values of the non-profit organization that supports the browser -- Chrome felt so old-school.
[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa...