Firefox 51 It is already a reality, a new update that has practically been launched by Mozilla and is now available for Windows, macOS and GNU / Linux operating systems. This new version, as those responsible for its development have commented, comes with important new features such as the general improvement in its performance where the algorithm has been redesigned to make a much lower use of the CPU.
This is precisely the main novelty that Firefox 51 brings with it, which in addition to not congest the CPU so much provides quite remarkable improvement in terms of performance when viewing videos, something that is of special importance in computers that do not diphthong of acceleration by GPU. Without a doubt, two new features that will, at least, make the user experience much better.
On the other hand, after many meetings and development, finally the guys at Mozilla have decided to give FLAC file playback support, Free Lossless Audio Codec, in the browser itself, so if you are a music lover you will be happy. As a detail, tell you that these types of files are basically lossless sound files, without loss of sound quality, quite the opposite to traditional MP3s.
Firefox 51, performance and optimization by flag.
Finally note that Firefox 51, in terms of great features and news, includes support for WebGL 2 with advanced graphics rendering functions which, as users, will allow us to enjoy above all better textures and much deeper and more realistic shadows. This new feature, according to Mozilla, will significantly improve the experience of all those users who use the browser to play different games.
Firefox 51 implements specific software designed to limit the precision of the function 'Battery time'' so that tracking through the network can be avoided using the data from our battery, it shows a new indicator in the address bar to see the zoom level, improves the support for 360 degree videos, SHA-1 certificates have been permanently blocked and a new notification system has even been included to alert the user when trying to log in to pages that do not use HTTPS.