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Mozilla Releases Firefox Beta for Windows 10 ARM

posted by martyb on Friday April 12 2019, @06:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the buck-feta! dept.

takyon writes:

Mozilla releases Firefox beta for Windows 10 ARM laptops

Mozilla is releasing an ARM version of its Firefox browser today for Windows 10. While Microsoft and Google have been working together on Chromium browsers for Windows on ARM, Mozilla has been developing its own ARM64-native build of Firefox for Snapdragon-powered Windows laptops. We got an early look at this version of Firefox late last year, and it seemed to fare well on an ARM laptop with a dozen tabs open.

This new build of Firefox is available today as part of Mozilla's beta channel for the browser for anyone with an ARM-powered Windows 10 laptop to test. That might not be a lot of people right now, but Mozilla has been working on its Firefox Quantum technology to optimize Firefox for the octa-core CPUs available from Qualcomm. This should mean the performance is relatively solid, while maintaining all of the regular web compatibility you'd expect from Firefox.

Also at AnandTech and Engadget.

Related: Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 8cx, an ARM Chip Intended for Laptops

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday April 12 2019, @07:04PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Friday April 12 2019, @07:04PM (#828715) Journal

    I thought Windows 10 on ARM was locked down so no one could run third party desktop applications, even if they existed.

    This is true of Windows RT, the ARM version of Windows 8. It is not true of the ARM version of Windows 10, which makes three key changes to the business model:

    • Desktop Bridge, a sandbox for desktop applications deployed through Microsoft Store
    • No paywall for leaving "S Mode" (the Microsoft Store-only mode)
    • Included emulator for running i686 executables
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