Firefox Quantum Sprint at Salem

What is Firefox Quantum? Firefox Quantum is a new browser 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? During 2-8 October 2017, Mozilla Community started a sprint called Firefox Quantum Sprint to make a successful launch of Firfox Quantum in Beta.Motto of Firefox Quantum Sprint is to make a difference by ensuring that Firefox runs smoothly for all websites and its an opporunity to make Firefox rise again with additional power. In order to motivate many mozilla campus club, we organised Firefox Quantum Sprint at Salem on October 2,2017.

The event started with the following flow,

• Getting started with Mozilla Community
• Introduction about Web Compatibility Issues
• Technical demo on reporting WebCompat issues
• Getting involved in Sprint by testing and reporting bugs
• Swag distribution and Group Photo

VENUE: CCI Computer Education, VRK building, near Palace theater, Salem, Tamilnadu. TIME: 10.00 AM to 1.00 PM.

The event was sucessfully conducted with vibrant number of contributor around Salem from various Mozilla Campus club. The Sprint results can be seen in this Etherpad. We had a great time organising the event in Salem. We would like to register our sincere thanks to everyone who volunteered for this event.

METRICS ACHIEVED:

• No of attendees at the event: 10
• No of bugs filed: 25+
• No of websites tested:100+

Thank You!!!!