FIREFOX DEVELOPER EDITION RELEASE DATE PC

The new, minimalist design introduces square tabs, smooth animations, and a Library, which provides quick access to your saved stuff: bookmarks, Pocket, history, downloads, tabs, and screenshots.

FIREFOX DEVELOPER EDITION RELEASE DATE PC

If you’re using Photon on a Windows PC with a touch display, the menus change size based on whether you click with a mouse or touch with a finger. Photon doesn’t just look good, it’s also smarter. We’re confident that with Photon, Firefox Quantum users will be impressed by the modern new design that puts their needs first. With the new design, Firefox leaps ahead with a new interface that reflects today’s reality of High DPI displays and users who are more task focused than they’ve ever been. Our talented team of designers and user researchers spent time understanding how users perceive web browsers, and in particular where they felt they were waiting on their browsers. To reflect all these under-the-hood improvements, we’ve refined and rebuilt Firefox’s user interface through our Photon project. It’s not enough to perform well on benchmarks, it’s also important that our users feel like they’re using a well thought out and high performance product. Introducing the fast and fluid Photon design So far our pit crew has fixed 468 of these issues, both small papercuts and big bottlenecks.

In addition, for the past several months we’ve run a browser-wide initiative to zap any instances of slowness you might encounter while using Firefox. This prioritization of your active tab, along with Firefox’s “just right” multi-process architecture, results in Firefox Quantum often being faster than Chrome, while consuming roughly 30% less RAM. We’ve also improved Firefox so that the tab you’re actively using downloads and runs before other tabs you have open in the background. Firefox’s new CSS engine runs quickly, in parallel across multiple CPU cores, instead of running in one slower sequence on a single core. One example: we’ve developed a breakthrough approach to laying out pages: a super fast CSS engine written in Rust, a systems programming language that Mozilla pioneered. This improved utilization of your computer’s hardware makes Firefox Quantum dramatically faster.

So how we did we make Firefox Quantum so fast?įirefox has historically run mostly on just one CPU core, but Firefox Quantum takes advantage of multiple CPU cores in today’s desktop and mobile devices much more effectively. Performance varies based on several factors. Firefox Quantum is often perceivably faster. We encourage you to make your own comparisons, but here’s a short video that captures our observations when comparing Firefox Quantum and Chrome on various websites. Results vary based on the computer and apps you’re actively using, but one thing that’s relatively consistent is that Firefox Quantum is about 2X faster than Firefox was a year ago. One simple way of estimating browser performance is with Speedometer 2.0, a (still-in-development) benchmark that simulates modern web applications. Turns out you can measure Firefox Quantum’s speed, too – our pit crew is kind of obsessed with a data-driven approach. Noticeably faster on many of the top websitesįirefox Quantum is such a big leap forward that you’ll feel it instantly, just browsing your favorite websites. We’ve shipped a lot already, but we’ve been planning for many more projects to come together in Firefox Quantum.

In addition, we’ve launched game-changing features like WebAssembly and WebVR, enabling super fast, near-native performance for web apps on the desktop and on VR headsets. For example, we’ve transformed Firefox to run using multiple processes, striking the “just right” balance between speed and memory usage.

Since then, our engineering team has been relentless in their focus on making Firefox incredibly fast.Īlready this year we’ve launched several major improvements to Firefox that have it made it better than ever. Last October we announced Project Quantum, our effort to create a next-generation engine for modern computers, by leveraging technology from our Servo research project. Since the version number – 57 – can’t really convey the magnitude of the changes we’ve made, and how much faster this new Firefox is, we’re calling this upcoming release Firefox Quantum. That’s why we’re so revved up this morning – we’re releasing the Beta of a whole new Firefox, one that’s powered by a completely reinvented, modernized engine. Engines are important, both in cars and in browsers.

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