Firefox Quantum - Mozilla

What's new ?

It's fast...

and beautiful.

Press coverage

By Digital Trends

By The next web

By CNET

Firefox Quantum is pure win.

Firefox has definitely been getting better over the past year or two.

I switched to the beta a couple of months ago, and it's just better than Chrome in every way.

Users comments on Hacker News . And they're a hard bunch.

Performances improvements

• 2x faster than Firefox 52
• 30% less memory than Chrome
• Feels way faster

How we did it

1. Electrolysis 54
2. Quantum Compositor 55
3. Quantum DOM
4. Quantum CSS : Stylo
5. Quantum Render (GPU 58)
6. Quantum Flow
7. Faster release cycle Aurora
8. No more XUL

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A zoom inside Servo

How to render css :

1. Parse DOM+CSS
2. Apply rules on each DOM node
3. Calc dimensions
4. Paint boxes
5. Render boxes as final image

Feature: Synchronisation

• Bookmarks with Pocket
• Tabs
• History
• Screenshots
• Passwords
• Settings (theme, ...)
• Send tabs to devices

Feature: WebExtensions

• XUL
• Common technologies HTML/CSS/JS + specific APIs
• Cross browser
• Multi threaded
• More secure

Feature: Sleek new design

Feature: New tab

Firefox 56

Firefox Quantum

Feature: Container Tabs 58+

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