![]() ![]() There are lots of small changes that all help.One I particularly liked, I just happened to be testing a cookie-using program, is the ability to add new items to localStorage directly in the Storage Inspector. With the rise of webworkers and async and await, JavaScript programs are going to become even more multi-threaded and asynchronous and we need better debugging aids. Perhaps the most important new feature is the async single step. The new debugger has had an outing before, but it is an improvement on what we previously had. I personally don't like dark themes' so for me it isn't immediately appealing.Īs to developer tools, the star of the show is probably the new console UI implemented using React and Redux - so Mozilla had no problems swallowing the Facebook BSD+patents licence. Is it better? It's different and only longer term use will reveal if it is any improvement. The first thing you notice are the changes to the UI, which has been given th name "Photon". It actually feels more responsive, but psychology gets in the way of objectivity. The benchmarks say so and informal testing seems to agree. The new name is a good cue for jokes about Schrodinger's fox. However, it also means that Mozilla can announce the release of Firefox 57 developer edition - or Firefox Quantum - well before the real Firefox 57 is rolled out to "ordinary" users. It is a bit of a con really because, with no extra features, it is basically a way to get devs to try out the beta. This was closed down recently and now the developer edition is basically the beta with a different theme. The developer edition was derived from the Aurora channel, which posted alpha level code. What has all this got to do with the dev edition? and the emphasis on multiprocess implementation. Is this all due to the use of Rust? Probably not. Firefox is being rebuilt using today's best approaches to the problems of implementing a browser and, if the benchmarks are correct, it is twice as fast as it was just a year ago and a touch faster than Chrome. Project Quantum can be described as Mozilla's way of making Firefox better, but it is also the end of the experiment. Today the current Firefox has a big disadvantage when it comes to speed and efficiency compared to native browsers like Chrome. This was intended to be the way of the future, but it wasn't to be. It was the first desktop web app in that it used the same HTML-based technologies to create the browser as the web page. Fittingly the dev edition is a beta, which is why we are first.įirefox was a radical departure in its architecture. Firefox is toward the end of a complete overhaul and the first to benefit is the developer edition, now called Firefox Quantum. ![]()
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