Firefox Quantum Sprint
By Sriram Balasubramanian
Hello All!
The Firefox Quantum Sprint took place on 8th October 2017 at Prozone Mall, Coimbatore.
On the evening of 8th October2017, Mozillians from Coimbatore gathered at Prozone Mall, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, to test the compatibility of Firefox Quantum Beta 57.
What is Firefox Quantum?
Firefox Quantum is a new browser released by Mozilla. Now the beta version(57) has been released to Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. Firefox Quantum is 2X faster than Firefox 52 beta.
Features
- New Browser engine built with RUST language
- Separate CSS engine called Stylo
- 2X speed
- 30% less RAM
- Improved UI
What we did?
We the contributors of Mozilla from Coimbatore, gathered at Prozone and tested the compatibility of Quantum Browser. We were 17 people and we tested nearly 52 websites, in which 50 were Tamil websites. The types of websites tested were Educational (Anna university), Songs & movies, Organizations, health science (Tamilhealth science), News and blogs (eluthu, techtamil), Shopping (chennai silks), Magazines (Vikadan). We reported 19 bugs to webcompat.
Contributions from KGISL
4 Awesome contributors from KGiSL Mozilla Club participated in it and reported 3 bugs.
Here is our results - Etherpad.
Thank you everyone for participating :)