
Firefox 84 also delivers WebRender for MacOS Big Sur, Windows devices with Intel Gen6 GPUs, and Intel laptops running Windows 7 and 8. Mozilla is now supporting an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 for the first time ever. Additionally, the browser also uses better shared memory allocation techniques on Linux and promises better performance and compatibility with Docker.
Firefox 84 contains some security updates and is the final version to support Adobe Flash. Adobe will end support of Flash Player on December 31, 2020.