Firefox Quantum 67 delivers better performance, protection and smattering of new features

Mozilla has released Firefox Quantum 67.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux, along with Firefox for Android 67.0. The new release is a major one, boasting several performance improvements, a significant number of new features and tighter security and privacy with the ability to block both cryptominers and fingerprinters Firefox 67 opens with the promise of better performance, achieved mainly through tweaking existing technologies: unused tabs are now automatically suspended, while the setTimeout priority has been lowered while painting takes place sooner, but occurs less often, during page loading. Finally, component initialization has also been delayed until after startup. Hidden away… [Continue Reading]