The fastest version of Firefox has been released.
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Firefox today releases its new browser, Firefox Quantum, from beta. The company claims that it is twice as fast as the original Firefox six months ago.
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Firefox Quantum has an adaptive interface with customizable toolbar. It also exceeds the performance of Google Chrome in the battle for the speed of browsers. The new browser also includes Pocket with recommendations of sites in a new tab. Night mode and other features are available as free Firefox add-ons.
The key moment of Quantum in comparison with Chrome is the smaller use of RAM - something for which Google has been repeatedly criticized for many years. Opening multiple tabs in Quantum takes up less memory than Chrome. On my Asus laptop with an Intel Core i5 processor, it runs six processes for 20 open tabs, and Google Chrome runs 21 processes for 14 tabs. Note that after opening the 10th tab, Quantum starts to show a wavy download sign on the new tabs.
Despite competing with Google in browser space, Firefox uses Google as the default search engine in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan. For years, Firefox used Yahoo by default, although it also offered Google and Bing as alternatives, but recently it terminated its contract with Yahoo, according to a Mozilla email. Business Director Daniel Dickson said: “We have exercised our contractual right to terminate the agreement with Yahoo! based on a number of factors, including what is best for our brand, our efforts to provide high-quality web search, and more opportunities to get content for our users. ”
Private browsing mode for Firefox Quantum looks as good as normal browsing. The purple mask symbol on the right indicates which mode you are in, and Firefox by default has protection against tracking.
Quantum was a project open to volunteers, about 700 authors worked on the code. It took a year to complete the Firefox project. The final version is available for download from Mozilla for PC, Android and iOS.
Firefox today releases its new browser, Firefox Quantum, from beta. The company claims that it is twice as fast as the original Firefox six months ago.
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Firefox Quantum has an adaptive interface with customizable toolbar. It also exceeds the performance of Google Chrome in the battle for the speed of browsers. The new browser also includes Pocket with recommendations of sites in a new tab. Night mode and other features are available as free Firefox add-ons.
The key moment of Quantum in comparison with Chrome is the smaller use of RAM - something for which Google has been repeatedly criticized for many years. Opening multiple tabs in Quantum takes up less memory than Chrome. On my Asus laptop with an Intel Core i5 processor, it runs six processes for 20 open tabs, and Google Chrome runs 21 processes for 14 tabs. Note that after opening the 10th tab, Quantum starts to show a wavy download sign on the new tabs.
Despite competing with Google in browser space, Firefox uses Google as the default search engine in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan. For years, Firefox used Yahoo by default, although it also offered Google and Bing as alternatives, but recently it terminated its contract with Yahoo, according to a Mozilla email. Business Director Daniel Dickson said: “We have exercised our contractual right to terminate the agreement with Yahoo! based on a number of factors, including what is best for our brand, our efforts to provide high-quality web search, and more opportunities to get content for our users. ”
Private browsing mode for Firefox Quantum looks as good as normal browsing. The purple mask symbol on the right indicates which mode you are in, and Firefox by default has protection against tracking.
Quantum was a project open to volunteers, about 700 authors worked on the code. It took a year to complete the Firefox project. The final version is available for download from Mozilla for PC, Android and iOS.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/355162/
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