With only 15 seconds you can launch more than 1600 tabs, dramatically improving memory usage, revealing the effect of "Quantum Flow" to resolve the weaknesses of Firefox

A modern web browser is sure to say that it is always possible to display different sites with multiple "tabs", but as more tabs are opened, it consumes memory and CPU resources. The problem also existed in the browser "Firefox" developed by Mozilla, but if we use the technology of the newly released development project "Quantum Flow", we will have a huge number of tabs of over 1600 It has been found that it opens in 15 seconds and consumption of memory is surprisingly small.

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Quantum Flow is a technology derived from Mozilla's next generation rendering engine development project "Project Quantum", which was first implemented in the beta version "Firefox 55" at the time of article creation. Its feature is to drastically reduce the amount of resources wasted on hibernate tabs and to overcome the weaknesses of Firefox that used Gecko engines.

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This verification was done by Mr. Dietrich Ayala, Mozilla developer. In the successive version of Firefox 1691 tabs are opened with the tab open, and the time until the processing is completed is measured. In Firefox 20, the time which was over 1 minute increased steadily as the version goes up, and it reaches the peak of about 8 minutes with Firefox 51. After that, there were improvements in Firefox 52/53/54, but you can see that in Firefox 55 and 56 there is a short time of just 15 seconds.


Dramatic improvements in memory consumption are also seen. Firefox normally occupies approximately 2 GB of memory, but in Firefox 55 and 56 with Quantum Flow, it is drastically decreasing to 500 MB or less.


Although it can be said that Firefox in recent years was in a state slightly different from "light weight", around August 8, 2017It is scheduledFirefox 55 is likely to be worth a try.