Posted on Wednesday, June 14 2017 @ 12:47 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Mozilla announces they've just rolled out the best Firefox ever. The Firefox 54 release promises to deliver very noticeable performance improvements by splitting up Firefox into four processes to run web page content across all open tabs. Mozilla says that by separating the tabs into separate processes, one site can no longer slow down all other tabs. It took a while but Firefox's "Electrolysis" is now finally available for everyone.
With today’s release, Firefox uses up to four processes to run web page content across all open tabs. This means that a heavy, complex web page in one tab has a much lower impact on the responsiveness and speed in other tabs. By separating the tabs into separate processes, we make better use of the hardware on your computer, so Firefox can deliver you more of the web you love, with less waiting.
I’ve been living with this turned on by default in the pre-release version of Firefox (Nightly). The performance improvements are remarkable. Besides running faster and crashing less, E10S makes websites feel more smooth. Even busy pages, like Facebook newsfeeds, spool out smoothly and cleanly. After making the switch to Firefox with E10s, now I can’t live without it.
Firefox 54 with E10s makes sites run much better on all computers, especially on computers with less memory. Firefox aims to strike the “just right” balance between speed and memory usage.
At the same time, Mozilla is also touting the low memory usage of Firefox. Here's a chart from Mozilla showing off Firefox's superiority:
