Last month those responsible for the development of Mozilla Firefox unveiled a new update, specifically the version 48 of the browser, which stands out above all the others thanks to the great commitment made by the team in terms of multiprocessing. Undoubtedly a feature that, as has been seen by a few lucky ones, is the answer that the browser needed to, now, be able to compete in terms of speed with Google Chrome.
As has been officially communicated, we are talking about one of the most interesting changes implemented to date in Firefox. Specifically, the team has been working on getting the browser's renderer engines and the shell itself to run as separate processes. Thanks to this and according to the tests carried out to date, an increase in the 400% responsiveness and a 700% improvement in loading heavy web pages.
Firefox exponentially increases its performance and response speed in version 48
At the moment these news have only reached 1% of users, although, according to the organization, an update will begin to be offered to many more people because the initial tests have already finished. Users who have been able to work with version 48 of this web browser confirm the speed increase as well as the fact that, when you have several tabs open and one of them has an error, the browser does not hang completely.
Based on the statements made by Dotzler handle, Mozilla product manager for Firefox:
All this will be one of the great improvements in terms of the operation of the web interface, especially when loading heavy pages. It indicates that users appreciate the agility of Chrome, Edge and Opera, and that Firefox will gain a lot of agility with Electrólisi (this is how they have baptized this new functionality)
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