Firefox 48 makes the third-place browser worth revisiting

Aug02

by Sindy Cator on August 2, 2016 at 5:42 pm

Earlier today, the public release of Firefox 48 landed for both desktop and Android. Although there hasn’t been much fanfare, it represents a significant leap forward for the browser that is perennially in third place. So, what’s changed? On the desktop, a lot. Mozilla is slowly rolling out what it calls “Multi-Process Firefox” (confusingly, also Electrolysis and e10s), which separates the core Firefox system from web content. This means that if one tab starts to consume too much of your system’s resources, or otherwise locks up, the rest of the browser is unaffected. It sounds really dry, but Mozilla is confident…