Mozilla’s Firefox Quantum browser is ridiculously fast

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by Sindy Cator on September 26, 2017 at 4:13 pm

Mozilla today announced that its significant overhaul of the Firefox browser — called Firefox Quantum — had entered the beta stage, making it tantalisingly close to a general consumer release. Firefox Quantum isn’t an incremental release, but rather a significant step forward for the enduring Chrome-challenger. It’s geared to take advantage of multi-core setups, as are so common in today’s computers. For instance, Quantum ships with a brand new CSS engine written in Mozilla’s Rust programming language. Unlike other browsers, this can work in parallel across cores, rather than as one large process on a single core. It also prioritises…