Further acceleration and privacy protection advanced "Firefox 58" official release, faster than Chrome & enhanced squish function

The web browser "Firefox" was released in November 2017Firefox Quantum (Firefox 57)We made substantial speeding up, reduced memory usage, improved user experience, and more. Following this will be version up "Firefox 58"Further speeding up has been done, and points such as privacy protection of users are improved.

New fast browsers for Mac, PC, Linux | Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/ja/firefox/


Firefox - Notes (58.0) - Mozilla
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/58.0/releasenotes/

Latest Firefox Quantum release available with faster, always-on privacy with opt-in Tracking Protection and new features - The Mozilla Blog
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/01/23/latest-firefox-quantum-release-now-available-with-new-features/

Firefox 57 that appeared in November 2017 realized twice the speed compared with Firefox 52 which was the latest version as of November 2016. For the latest version of Firefox 58 for Windows usersOff-Main-Thread paintingThe introduction of graphics drawing speed will be introduced.

"Privacy protection installed in"Tracking ProtectionFunction contributes to speeding up.

When comparing the display speed of the website, the site which takes 7.7 seconds by Chrome and 7.3 seconds by Firefox Quantum can be read in 3.2 seconds if it is Firefox Quantum which turned on tracking protection.


You can check the difference in loading with the following movie.

Fast and Private with Opt-In tracking Protection - YouTube


Also, the built-in "shoot screenshot" function now works even in private browsing mode, you can copy the shot screenshot and paste it directly to the clipboard. If you do not want to save the screenshot as a file, but want to process it, it should be convenient to save time and effort.

In addition, the user profile is big change in Firefox 58,User profiles created with later versions including Firefox 58 will no longer be supported in Firefox 57 and earlier versionsAnd that. When downgrading, you will need to create a new user profile, so be careful.

The latest version is available from Firefox official site. To download directly, please save the file from the following link.

· Windows version of Web installer (common to both 32-bit version and 64-bit version)
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/58.0/win32/ja/Firefox Installer.exe(306 KB)

· Windows 64 bit version
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/58.0/win64/ja/Firefox Setup 58.0.exe(38.0 MB)

· Window 32 bit version
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/58.0/win32/ja/Firefox Setup 58.0.exe(35.3 MB)

· MacOS version
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/58.0/mac/ja-JP-mac/Firefox 58.0.dmg(52.8 MB)

· Linux 64-bit version
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/58.0/linux-x86_64/ja/firefox-58.0.tar.bz2(51.8 MB)

· Linux 32-bit version
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/58.0/linux-i686/ja/firefox-58.0.tar.bz2(53.6 MB)