From Firefox's faster, slicker, slimmer Quantum edition now out
[...] Collectively, the performance work being done to modernize Firefox is called Project Quantum. We took a closer look at Quantum back when Firefox 57 hit the developer channel in September, but the short version is, Mozilla is rebuilding core parts of the browser, such as how it handles CSS stylesheets, how it draws pages on-screen, and how it uses the GPU.
This work is being motivated by a few things. First, the Web has changed since many parts of Firefox were initially designed and developed; pages are more dynamic in structure and applications are richer and more graphically intensive. JavaScript is also more complex and difficult to debug. Second, computers now have many cores and simultaneous threads, giving them much greater scope to work in parallel. And security remains a pressing concern, prompting the use of new techniques to protect against exploitation. Some of the rebuilt portions are even using Mozilla's new Rust programming language, which is designed to offer improved security compared to C++.
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The fastest version of Firefox yet is now live
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @04:31PM
The real problem, of course, is that browsers have tabs at all. Window managing should be left to the window manager, and any decent window manager will provide options for the user to group them (likewise we have finally moved away from the MDI [wikipedia.org] abomination). Process spawning should again be left to user preference or system settings, as should worrying about "sandboxing" to prevent leakage (of which there are a varity of ready-made [wordpress.com] tools [sandboxie.com]).
Or put another way, the whole "the browser is the system" mentality is the cancer that
ishas killinged internet browsers.