Recently The Mozilla development team has released and made available a new stable version Firefox browser coming to its new version Firefox 61.0. In this version, Mozilla se focused on Quantum related optimizations. It also states that Windows and Linux users should notice a faster switching between tabs.
Firefox 61.0 has been released as a new stable version of the browser. This happened a few weeks after Mozilla released the beta version of the browser.
Firefox 61.0 introduces performance improvements to the Quantum engine that replaced Gecko in the fall of last year. Mozilla now boasts faster rendering or switching between tabs on Windows and Linux.
The developers of Firefox want to make your web browser "even smarter and faster than any other."
The new version Firefox 61.0, speed up tab switching on Windows and Linux, this happens if the user moves the mouse over a tab, Firefox will sometimes load its website content and if the user finally clicks on it, the website is already loaded there.
From now on, WebExtensions on macOS are started in a separate process.
Firefox 61.0 it also introduces easy link exchange from the address bar menu on macOS. It also provides access to various search engines that can be added to the address bar.
Mozilla too has security enhancements. The new Firefox now supports TLS 1.3.
Mozilla also claims that Firefox 61.0 features better timing and fix, including dark mode interface.
Also, frequently Visited pages must be available more quickly: the new optimization function "retained" display lists locally stores specific page elements, such as backgrounds and text.
In the «Display lists», the browser collects all the graphic elements of a page, which it then displays. So far, Firefox created these completely new lists, for example, when the user reloads a page, this new feature could save time.
The settings for customizing the Firefox home page and the home page for new tabs have been moved.
It can be accessed from the sidebar in Settings or in about: preferences. There, instead of the default Firefox home page, the Empty page option can be selected, leading to a completely empty new tab page.
About the new Monitor Tool Testing function.
Mozilla has made some security announcements this week: On Monday, the company announced that you are testing a new security tool called Firefox Monitor, which the company said it securely checks whether user accounts have been hacked.
Similar to the existing HIBP feature, founded by security researcher Troy Hunt, Firefox Monitor them allows users to enter their email addresses to check if they are part of hacker databases that have been released to the public.
"To help keep personal information and accounts secure, we will test the user's interest in a security tool that allows users to verify whether one of their accounts has been compromised in a data breach," said Peter Dolanjski
"We decided to address a growing need for account security by developing Firefox Monitor, a proposed security tool designed for everyone, but offering additional features for Firefox users."
Firefox Monitor users can see the details of the sites and other sources of violations and the types of personal data exposed in each, and receive recommendations on what to do in the event of a data breach.
Download Firefox 61
If you want to download the new version of Firefox you can go to the official browser website where you can get the new version, the link is this.
Thank you very much for the post, David, I just updated my firefox after reading it, I hope that now it goes much faster, that I prefer to use it before Chrome… hopefully it goes better !!
thanks!
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