Firefox To See A 'Quantum Leap' Improvement In Performance, Security By The End Of 2017

[Lucian Armasu]

David Bryant, the Head of Platform Engineering at Mozilla, said that users can expect major improvements in performance and security in Firefox by the end of 2017, by implementing some Servo components written in the company's Rust language.

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[beliberdah]

" 'Quantum Leap' Improvement In Performance by end of 2017"

Tell that to your gf after you fail to get it going.

 

[bit_user]

Websites and Ads will just bloat to use up all the performance gains.

And instead of bogging down 1 core, like Firefox used to do, it'll hose your whole machine.

 

[Christopher_115]

"Quantum Leap". So they're going for the smallest increase in performance that is physically possible. 😛

 

[none12345]

Thank you for this article.

This past week ive been having a wierd issue with slow UI in firefox with a certain web site. Only a specific site using a lot of flash.

I manually enabled electrosylisis and no more issues. So yay!

 

[Martell1977]

This will hopefully fix an issue I've had since 2 or 3 updates ago. Whenever I watch a stream in firefox, the stream crashes and I get a "plugin unresponsive" error. I've tried a clean reinstall and several other things to no avail. I have to use chrome whenever I want to watch a stream and I can't stand chrome, but it's better than edge.

 

[firefoxx04]

Firefox on windows works well for me. Android is terrible right now.

 

[bit_user]

"Quantum Leap". So they're going for the smallest increase in performance that is physically possible. 😛

No, they're obviously highlighting the discontinuous nature of the transition.

They're assuming the reader is intelligent enough to realize that the analogy refers to the rate of change, rather than the magnitude. Use context.

 

[tntom]

Can't wait to switch back to FF. Competition is good. Chrome brought sandboxing, slimmer tool bars and tabs that used less vertical real estate, mute-able, duplicatable tabs, and vastly improved rendering performance. I hate how Chrome handles bookmarks the all in one URL text box and how it visually looks.

 

[pasow]

Websites and Ads will just bloat to use up all the performance gains.

And instead of bogging down 1 core, like Firefox used to do, it'll hose your whole machine.

given how slowly ad requirements shift in my job, it will take a while for us to catch up. The dominant 40KB thing for flash stuck around for a decade even to the detriment of the ad and end user at times. it took the forced move to HTML for any industry wide changes to happen.

 

[Guest]

We can talk about anything but nothing comes close to that garbage, Edge.

 

[reza666]

About time, i love FF but man its slow and crashes allot.
On my old MBP i given up. Its better on PC but still far far away from what it used to be.