Mozilla has also made use of the open-source Rust programming language to build a new Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) engine for Firefox Quantum. According to Mozilla, the multi-process approach can help to accelerate page loads while consuming less system memory.
The Firefox 53 release that debuted in April 2017 for example, added the Quantum Compositor feature which helps to help reduce the number of browser crashes due to graphics issues.įirefox 54 further accelerated the browser with the introduction of the multi-process web content rendering technology called Electrolysis (E10S). Quantum is not a single technology or feature, but rather is a set of innovations that Mozilla has been developing and adding to Firefox. Among the tested sites in the video is a Google account login, which loads faster in Quantum than in Google’s own Chrome browser. In a video, Mozilla developers demonstrate that Firefox Quantum is measurably faster than Google Chrome, in terms of page load times on multiple leading internet sites. Mozilla has been incrementally adding features to Firefox over the past year to help speed up the browser, in an effort to provide better performance than Google’s rival Chrome browser.
The new Firefox Quantum browser, which is currently available as a beta, is two times faster than the Firefox 52 release which debuted in March 2017.įirefox Quantum is actually the Firefox 57 release, but Mozilla developers have decided that the speed gains in the upcoming browser milestone are so noteworthy that it should have a unique name as well. The race for internet browser supremacy is accelerating once again, with Mozilla’s latest open-source Firefox browser.