Firefox Quantum 2020



Get Firefox, a free web browser backed by Mozilla, a non-profit dedicated to internet health and privacy. Available now on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. One of the first things you might notice when you fire up Firefox Quantum is the new logo. It’s livelier than it used to be, a bit more colorful, and a lot more modern, like the browser itself.

  • While Pale Moon is based on Firefox 38 ESR, Basilisk is based on newer Firefox code. The developer is working on the “Unified XUL Platform (UXP)”, which is a fork of Mozilla’s code without the new Servo and Rust code that makes Firefox Quantum so fast. It also doesn’t enable any multi-process features.
  • Firefox meanwhile has a chequered history when it comes to extensions. A major rewrite in 2017 (codenamed “Quantum”) made the browser faster and more user-friendly, but it also tightened up.

We accept things in the online world that we wouldn’t accept in the physical one. For instance, how would you feel if you popped your head in a store and that store now had the ability to keep sending you flyers even if you didn’t buy anything? Online, we often visit sites that track us, but it isn’t clear when this is happening or how the information is being used. Adding insult to injury, this often invisible tracking actually slows down web pages.

Since January 28 is International Data Privacy Day, it’s a good time to talk about one of Firefox Quantum’s most powerful features — Opt-in Tracking Protection. To jog your memory, we launched Tracking Protection in Private Browsing mode two years ago, which was unheard of at the time. Users could freely browse in Private Browsing mode without worrying about being tracked and getting inundated with ads. Since then we’ve studied Tracking Protection and found that, in addition to protecting their privacy, users actually have a better, faster experience with the web when pages load without trackers. That is why in November we upped the ante in Firefox Quantum and began offering our users the option to turn on Tracking Protection all the time. 24-7.

Results based on test found here

Besides privacy, we noticed that speed was one of the many benefits to having Tracking Protection turned on. Everyone likes a fast browser. Check out the video:

To turn on Tracking Protection, just open your “Preferences” and click on “Privacy & Security.” Scroll down to “Tracking Protection,” and click on “Always.” Now, you’re all set.

It’s also available on your mobile devices, to learn how to turn on Tracking Protection, click on the following: Firefox for iOS and Android.

More speed comes to Firefox for Fire TV this week

Leveraging the same Tracking Protection technology we use in Firefox and Firefox Focus, “Turbo Mode” will be available this week on Firefox for Fire TV. We’re calling it “Turbo Mode” because it gives you a faster and less cluttered browsing experience. The feature will be enabled by default. There may be times where sites may not load properly when Turbo Mode is enabled so the feature can be managed from the option menu in those instances.

New features for today’s Firefox releases

With today’s release, we’re building on the great foundation provided by Firefox Quantum on desktop and adding new capabilities for Firefox for Android.

A faster, smoother web with graphics engine enhancements

I’m sure you’ve all experienced that moment when you’re patiently waiting for a page to load, and the images and text get choppy. It slows down, and sometimes, it just hangs. We call this annoying phenomenon jank, and we’re always working on making Firefox less janky.

To help reduce jank, today Firefox Quantum is launching an improved engine that more efficiently paints your screen, using a dedicated CPU thread. The impact of this improvement is that Firefox Quantum is now even faster, and on certain websites, much smoother. Just how do we know? Our engineers created a test that simulates running heavy JavaScript. While running this test, Firefox’s frame rate improved by 30% (from 31 to 40 frames per second). You can read more here.

Frame rates based on Mozilla’s test described here

Solid progress, and we’re not stopping. We’re currently working on integrating WebRender, a next-generation web page renderer we initially developed as part of our Servo research project, into Firefox Quantum. We expect WebRender will result in Firefox Quantum having even faster frame rates. Stay tuned in the coming months to learn more about it.

New features for Firefox for Android

  • Improved Bookmarking – We revised our bookmarking feature to help you quickly get to the sites you want to visit. Instead of a dialog box, you’ll get a full screen where you can easily organize and see your folders, create new ones, and move your bookmarks in your respective folders.
  • Progressive Web Apps (PWA) Support – We’ve also improved Firefox for Android to better support PWAs, a specific type of website that can appear as a mobile app on your phone. When you are browsing in Firefox for Android and come across a website that is a PWA, you’ll see a house-shaped button in your address bar. If you want to add that website as an app, simply tap the house-shaped button and the website’s icon will appear on your home screen. Now, you can visit that website by simply tapping its icon – full-screen, outside of the browser UI, without an address bar. You can learn more about it here.

If you haven’t yet switched to the new Firefox Quantum browser, we invite you to download the latest version.

  • Download Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux
  • Release Notes for Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux
  • Download Firefox for Android
  • Release Notes for Firefox for Android

First published Jan. 23, 6a.m. PT.
Update, Jan. 25 6 a.m. PT: Adds details about Firefox for Fire TV.

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Surf the web using one of the world’s leading browsers and enjoy outstanding speed, flawless security, and a sleek design focused on productivity

Note: You can also download Firefox ESR or Firefox Developer Edition.

For a very long time, two titans have been disputing the supremacy in the browsing world, and Firefox has its well-deserved share of fans who would always bring into discussion its outstanding performance and the constant care it has proved over time as regards user needs.

Having embarked on a never-ending quest to quench users’ thirst for seamless speed, Firefox has been the subject of continuous refinements, which have culminated with the release of the Quantum project, which has once again confirmed the browser’s maturity.

Includes bleeding-edge technology for high speed and security

Firefox entails all the browsing tools any user out there might need and even more. It is capable of opening as many tabs as you want without making deductions from speed, and the low memory consumption is among the top promises it makes to its users. That means loading pages is done lightning fast, so you have instant access to all the websites you want to visit.

As regards safe browsing, it is definitely not a matter of if, what with the possibility of surfing the Internet via private windows as well as turning to the integrated tools aimed at disabling tracking in case you are worried about the issue. Apart from that, ensuring that your browsing history is unavailable to unauthorized users is an option, and granting the required permissions to websites you are visiting to use your location, camera, and microphone is entirely up to you.

Lets you minutely customize browsing sessions and offers sync capabilities

Needless to say, keeping track of downloads, juggling with bookmarks, and taking screenshots without leaving your browser is possible, which once again proves Firefox’s focus on productivity and collaborative work. Moreover, syncing anything ranging from bookmarks to tabs, history, passwords, add-ons, and other settings across multiple devices should help you work without any sort of interruptions, regardless of where and when you decide to do so.

Customizing the search options that best cater to your needs should not take more than a couple of seconds, and that includes selecting the default search engine.

Integrates a multitude of developer tools and resources

Furthermore, a wide assortment of customizations are available so that the browser’s behavior meet each an every expectation you might have, and an overflow menu is there for you to fill with all sorts of items (for instance History, Find, Add-ons, Email Link, etc.) you use on a daily basis but prefer not to be visible in the toolbar.

When it comes to developers, Firefox greets them with a series of tools specifically designed for them. To name a few, Toggle Tools, Web Console, Network, Inspector, Performance, Style Editor, Page Source, WebIDE, Developer Toolbar, and more should guarantee they can thoroughly inspect pages, execute code, and more.

What’s for sure is that Firefox is one of the top choices when it comes to browsers, and its commitment to offering a secure, responsive, and why not fashionable environment for users to use has been constantly shown. The product keeps on benefiting from constant updates that have managed to turn it into one of the most trust-worthy apps of its kind, and smooth browsing is one of the things it takes most pride in.

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2020Firefox was reviewed by Anca Roman
5.0/5
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
  • Pentium 4 or newer processor that supports SSE2
  • 512MB of RAM / 2GB for the 64-bit version
  • 200MB of hard drive space
New in Firefox 89.0 Beta 1:
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  • Beginning in 89, you’ll notice a number of changes, including:
  • Simplified browser chrome and toolbar: Redundant or less frequently used features have been removed to focus on the most important navigation items.
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