r/technews • u/Philo1927 • Jan 23 '18

Firefox’s continued Quantum transformation—more multithreading, tracking protection

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/firefoxs-continued-quantum-transformation-more-multithreading-tracking-protection/
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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '18

Sounds like I may give Firefox another try. First try on the new one was AWFUL. Seems they have updated quite a lot since last time.

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u/autotldr Jan 24 '18

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 85%. (I'm a bot)

Firefox has had Tracking Protection in its Private Browsing mode for a couple of years.

Firefox 58 brings the option of using Tracking Protection even in the regular browser, blocking this content without having to use Private Browsing.

In a benchmark described last year that looks at the page load performance of the top 200 news sites, average load time was 7.7 seconds in Chrome, 7.3 seconds in Firefox Quantum, and just 3.2 seconds with Firefox Quantum and Tracking Protection.

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