

In most scenarios and websites, this alteration managed to nearly halve the power usage. In October, Mozilla’s engineering team managed to circumvent a critical macOS limitation to make Firefox more power-efficient on Macs. Plus, Firefox suspends tabs you haven’t visited in a while when your computer is running low on memory.Īpart from these big releases, Firefox has also gained plenty of little, yet significant updates. This prioritization trick allows Firefox to process popular websites like Amazon and Instagram anywhere from 40% to 80% quicker. For instance, on a news website, it will load an article’s content before all the ads and newsletter modules. Starting from v.67, Firefox began breaking down webpages to understand which components need to be rendered first and which ones can wait. One of the recent major performance updates arrived in May when Mozilla natively integrated a handful of clever optimizations for which users previously had to rely on third-party extensions. This rare balance of efficiency and performance is the result of the countless under-the-hood upgrades Firefox has rolled out in the last couple of years. On Firefox, my 2015 MacBook Pro’s fans don’t blast past my noise-canceling headphones, which happened fairly regularly on Chrome as it pushed my laptop’s fans to their helicopter-like limits to keep things running. It’s rare that I’m forced to close an existing tab to make room for a new one. I don’t have to think twice before firing up yet another tab. Today, in addition to being fast, Firefox is resource-efficient, unlike most of its peers.

Since Firefox’s 2017 overhaul, Mozilla has been pushing updates around the clock. The biggest draw for me was, of course, the fact that Mozilla Firefox can finally go toe-to-toe with Google Chrome on the performance front, and often manages to edge it out as well. Ranking all 12 versions of Windows, from worst to best Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT to your browser, and you can test it out right now Great, hackers are now using ChatGPT to create malware
