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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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(Score: 3, Insightful) by darnkitten on Friday November 17 2017, @03:26AM
Interestingly, I was talking to the proprietor of the local print shop today, and he told me how, after using Adobe InDesign for graphic design work since opening the business well over a decade ago, he came in one morning to find that all of the InDesign files from the past ten years no longer opened. They remained locked until he upgraded and purchased a monthly subscription. "Just like ransomware," were his exact words.
Abuse? Depends on how you define it, but, while I (might not) object to an older version not opening files created in a newer version; I would classify locking him out of his entire library of projects--created on earlier, legally licensed versions of the software--mind you, in an attempt to (figuratively) extort a monthly payment as, both objectionable and abusive.
The terms of service for his use of the software were changed to something entirely different to that which he operated under during over a decade of use. You might argue that he "should have known" not to use proprietary software, but, like most users without a background in technology issues, he didn't see the change coming until he lost access to the files he had created, and had no option but to bow to Adobe's demands.