Today the makers of Firefox introduced their newest (and as they say, greatest) update to the browser. The update includes new beautiful design, faster load time, the name change to Firefox Quantum and few other additional options on top of the old ones. They even claim that it is not faster and less resource intensive than Chrome.
SPEED
The new version of Firefox uses the Quantum engine. Here you can see the memory usage of Firefox compared to other major browsers:
The new version of Firefox uses the Quantum engine. Here you can see the memory usage of Firefox compared to other major browsers:
And the comparison between Firefox 52 and the Quantum:
Now, how does Firefox manage to open webpages faster? It does so by blocking some of the scripts that are making pages load slower thus increasing the overall page load time. There's an increase in switching tabs that is a feature that I really like. It seems like Firefox knows what the users want.
DESIGN
Firefox's got a redesigned interface with a clean, modern appearance, consistent visual elements, and optimizations for touch screens. I would say that now it looks more like the Windows 10's browser Edge (or let me say, metro design) which is positive I guess?
DESIGN
Firefox's got a redesigned interface with a clean, modern appearance, consistent visual elements, and optimizations for touch screens. I would say that now it looks more like the Windows 10's browser Edge (or let me say, metro design) which is positive I guess?
CONCLUSION
From what I've said before, Firefox is indeed 2x faster than the previous versions and a bit faster than other browsers. There's one thing though. I think that it is going to be more noticeable on higher end computers as It's speed is mostly optimized to use the available power of them. But, only time will tell if that's true or not.
From what I've said before, Firefox is indeed 2x faster than the previous versions and a bit faster than other browsers. There's one thing though. I think that it is going to be more noticeable on higher end computers as It's speed is mostly optimized to use the available power of them. But, only time will tell if that's true or not.