{"id":252181,"date":"2018-03-13T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=252181"},"modified":"2018-03-13T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:54:49","slug":"firefox-59-quantum-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/252181-firefox-59-quantum-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 59 &#8220;Quantum&#8221; released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/13\/latest-firefox-available-users-browse-web-laptop-fire-tv-office-plus-chance-help-next-firefox-release\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>has released<\/strong><\/a> its Firefox 59.0 &#8220;Quantum&#8221; browser.<\/p>\n<p>The browser supports\u00a0GNU\/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems, and iOS and Android mobile devices.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla said the latest version of Firefox features multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/59.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>performance enhancements<\/strong><\/a>. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Various security fixes.<\/li>\n<li>Faster load times for content on the Firefox Home page<\/li>\n<li>Faster page load times (by loading either from the networked cache or the cache on the user\u2019s hard drive).<\/li>\n<li>Improved graphics rendering using Off-Main-Thread Painting for Mac users.<\/li>\n<li>Drag-and-drop to rearrange Top Sites on the Firefox Home page.<\/li>\n<li>Added features for Firefox Screenshots.<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced WebExtensions API including better support for decentralised protocols and the ability to dynamically register content scripts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Firefox for Android, support for sites that stream video using the HLS protocol has also been added, said Mozilla.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/252029-how-to-protect-your-pc-from-cryptojacking.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to protect your PC from cryptojacking<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has released its Firefox 59.0 &#8220;Quantum&#8221; browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":197481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[981,975],"class_list":["post-252181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252181"}],"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=252181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252187,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252181\/revisions\/252187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}