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: 2) by jbernardo on Friday November 17 2017, @06:22AM (1 child)
Why would I go back to Firefox, when it is now as full of telemetry, and users that dare disable it are insulted by the pompous Mozilla developers? Just check how the arrogant "genius" that infected Firefox with DRM reacted to the bug opened when he decided to beak sound in Linux: "Telemetry is a low barrier to entry way to provide feedback. Nobody in my team has telepathy." - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661#c122 [mozilla.org] dismissing the usage of bugzilla. And that is the second reason not to use Firefox since version 52 - it requires pulseaudio on Linux. Since the fix to >90% of sound issues I've encountered continues to be removing pulseaudio, there is no way I'm running that crap.
Palemoon works quite well, doesn't break add-ons, and isn't forcing bloat and spyware on users.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 19 2017, @07:48PM
> when it is now as full of telemetry, and users that dare disable it are insulted by the pompous Mozilla developers?
WTF are you talking about?
> Is Telemetry enabled by default on normal Firefox releases?
> No. Users of Firefox release builds must explicitly opt in to Telemetry.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Telemetry/FAQ#Is_Telemetry_enabled_by_default_on_normal_Firefox_releases.3F [mozilla.org]