{"id":230867,"date":"2017-09-28T08:27:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=230867"},"modified":"2017-09-28T08:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T06:28:25","slug":"firefox-quantum-the-fastest-firefox-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/230867-firefox-quantum-the-fastest-firefox-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Quantum &#8211; The fastest Firefox ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hacks.mozilla.org\/2017\/09\/firefox-quantum-developer-edition-fastest-firefox-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mozilla announced<\/strong><\/a> that Firefox Quantum is now available in Developer Edition, and is the fastest Firefox ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis release marks the first milestone where we believe Firefox fundamentally feels like a newer, better browser,\u201d said Mozilla.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox Quantum Developer Edition includes \u201cQuantum CSS,\u201d a new CSS engine written in Rust and based on the Servo parallel browser engine project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, the Quantum Flow team tracked down and fixed 369 performance bugs in Firefox, with a special focus on responsiveness and UI interactions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Quantum DOM project further overhauled how Firefox prioritises work, responding more quickly to events like user input while delaying less urgent computations until the browser is idle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Compared to Firefox six months ago, the Quantum Developer Edition is twice as fast on benchmarks like Speedometer 2.0.<\/p>\n<p>Future releases of Firefox will include Quantum Render &#8211; a GPU-optimised rendering pipeline &#8211; and Quantum DOM Scheduler that ensures tabs in the background can\u2019t slow down your active tabs, said Mozilla.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/230203-firefox-for-ios-has-automatic-ad-and-content-blocking.html\">Firefox for iOS has automatic ad and content blocking<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has launched Firefox Quantum, the fastest Firefox ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":230869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[981,46325,975],"class_list":["post-230867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-firefox","tag-firefox-quantum","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230899,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230867\/revisions\/230899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}