Firefox's "Firefox Quantum" beta release, the amount of memory consumption also decreases, making more efficient use of CPU

Mozilla started in 2016Next-generation web engine to make Firefox explosion speed "Project Quantum"As a result of its achievement, "Firefox Quantum"We are releasing a beta version of a high-speed browser called. Firefox Quantum is about twice as fast as Firefox 52 a year ago, and I can feel that speed compared with existing Chrome.

Start Your Engines - Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition - The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/09/26/firefox-quantum-beta-developer-edition/

Firefox Quantum is equivalent to Firefox 57, but "Since we can not tell you the size of the change we made and the speed of the new Firefox, the next release is called" Firefox Quantum " "Mozilla.

Mozilla announced in October 2016 that the concurrent processing rendering engine "Servo"Project Quantum" based on the next generation web engine based on the development team, the development team has focused on the acceleration of Firefox.

Next-generation web engine to make Firefox explosion speed "Project Quantum"


And, it was Firefox Quantum that was announced with full. You can see how much faster the Firefox Quantum is compared to Chrome from the following movie. You can see that Firefox Quantum outperform Chrome with Yelp, Google login, Shutterstock and so on.

Firefox Quantum (Beta) vs Chrome - YouTube


Speedometer 2.0The speed was about twice as much as Firefox 52 announced one year ago, and it can be said that the speed can be felt by just opening the page that users always watch.

According to Mozilla, Firefox has been executed by one CPU, but Firefox Quantum achieves high speed by efficiently using multiple CPU cores installed in the device. Also, by giving priority to tabs open and used by the user rather than open tabs in the background, combining with the multi-process architecture will make tabs faster than Chrome while keeping RAM consumption 30% He seems to have succeeded.

Furthermore, as a result of the project "Photon" aiming for UI innovation, Firefox Quantum is adapting to high resolution displays, and changes are made to designs that allow users to focus more on tasks, Mozilla. If you are using a Windows PC with a touch display, the size of the menu will change depending on whether the user is operating with the mouse or with your finger.

This is the UI of Firefox Quantum.


The rightmost menu is like this.


Also,Service "Pocket" to make "read later" convenientAlso integration into Firefox will proceed further. When opening a new tab, the recommendation page from Pocket is displayed ......


When you press the Pocket icon displayed at the right end of the address bar, the page is saved in Pocket and you can view the page from the offline state using iOS · Android application.


Although the official release of Firefox Quantum is scheduled to be Tuesday, November 14, 2017, beta version for desktop · Android · iOS and developer edition can be downloaded from the following.

Try New Browser Features in Pre-Release Versions | Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/desktop/#beta

Firefox Beta for Android
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta

Try New Features in a Pre-Release iOS Browser | Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/channel/ios/

Firefox Developer Edition
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/