We’ve worked non-stop for the last year to improve the way Firefox uses memory, and our newest Firefox release contains one of the biggest improvements yet. We’ve gone beyond optimizations of Firefox code itself, and have now plugged the main cause of memory leaks in Firefox add-ons, as well …
Browsers do a lot more work than they used to. Typical Firefox users today don’t just load pages of text, we run high performance Web applications with a rich set of HTML5 features. We keep those pages open for longer, and have more of them open at once. We’re living so much of our lives online that browsers have become like operating systems, sometimes running dozens of applications at once …
With reduced memory usage, Mozilla Firefox makes your Web experience faster when browsing with certain add-ons. These improvements make browsing smoother and more responsive. Know more about these awesome improvements here and here.
Firefox introduces support for compressed textures, allowing game developers to take full advantage of video memory to build graphics-heavy games without losing performance. Firefox makes animations smoother with an improved JavaScript engine and enhancements to WebGL. Firefox also provides game and other interactive content developers precision to within thousandths of milliseconds with high precision timing. You can see Firefox’s new gaming enhancements in this demo: