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posted by mrpg on Thursday November 16 2017, @09:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the my-extensions-dont-work dept.

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++.

Also at: Firefox aims to win back Chrome users with its souped up Quantum browser

The fastest version of Firefox yet is now live


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @09:27AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 17 2017, @09:27AM (#598117)

    Something that may cause you to re-think your opinion: All that Javascript to play video is not needed, it's something websites do just to ensure that the user has to learn a new user interface on every website they visit.

    That doesn't give you the video opening in an external player, but I don't agree that should be the default. Not everyone installs a video player, and those that don't may just end up having the video open in Windows Media Player or Quicktime (not sure which is the worst). However, you can right click and "save video as", just like you can "save image as" and then open it in your favorite player. I think you can "copy video url" also, if not, that's a feature that should be implemented.