Here’s a look at the new Firefox browser in action: David Bryant who first told you about Project Quantum explains what’s to come and what we’re doing to continue to improve your browser’s performance. We’ve done all this work on top of the multi-process foundation that we launched this past June. We’ve also improved Firefox so that the tab you’re on gets prioritized over all others, making better use of your valuable system resources. We made many, many performance improvements in the browser’s core and shipped a new CSS engine, Stylo, that takes better advantage of today’s hardware with multiple cores that are optimized for low power consumption. With more than 60 search providers pre-installed across more than 90 languages, Firefox has more choice in search providers than any other browser. Plus, our Pocket integration goes one step further, which includes Pocket recommendations alongside your most visited pages.Īs part of our focus on user experience and performance in Firefox Quantum, Google will also become our new default search provider in the United States and Canada. Our designers created a system that scales to more than just current hardware but lets us expand in the future. We looked at real world hardware to make Firefox look great on any display, and we made sure that Firefox looks and works like Firefox regardless of the device you’re using. To create Photon, our user research team studied how people browsed the web. You guessed it: the Photon UI itself is incredibly fast and smooth. We call this initiative Photon, and its goal is to modernize and unify anything that we call Firefox while taking advantage of the speedy new engine. The second thing you’ll notice is the new User Interface (UI).

The first thing you’ll notice is the speed. If you’re curious about what we did, read on. If you go and download Firefox Quantum right now, you’ll immediately notice the difference, accompanied by a feeling of mild euphoria. It’s by far the biggest update we’ve had since we launched Firefox 1.0 in 2004, it’s just flat out better in every way. Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new look designed to get out of the way and let you do what you do best: surf a ton of pages, open a zillion tabs, all guilt free because Firefox Quantum uses less memory than the competition.

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