The AchieVer Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Mozilla releases beta of Firefox for ARM-based Windows 10 laptops The first native ARM64 version of Firefox for Qualcomm-based Windows 10 PCs is ready for beta testers. There aren't yet many Qualcomm-based Windows 10 laptops out in the wild. But Microsoft, Google and Mozilla are all looking for ways to bring their browsers to these kinds of devices. First out of the gate is Mozilla. On April 11, Mozilla is slated to deliver a beta build of Firefox for ARM-based laptops, as noted by CNET. The browser will be optimized to help reduce power consumption for ARM-based PCs that are aiming to provide long battery life. The new beta will be available for download from Mozilla's site. Mozilla announced in December 2018 that it was collaborating with Qualcomm to optimize Firefox for the Snapdragon compute platform and planned to release a native ARM64 version of Firefox. Meanwhile, Microsoft -- which just this week released its first public Canary and Developer test builds of Chromium-based Edge -- is continuing to work on the Chromium ARM64 platform in conjunction with Google. From a Microsoft blog post earlier this week: "We've been collaborating with Google engineers to enable Chromium to run natively on Windows on ARM devices starting with Chromium 73. With these contributions, Chromium-based browsers will soon be able to ship native implementations for ARM-based Windows 10 PCs, significantly improving their performance and battery life." Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
There aren't yet many Qualcomm-based Windows 10 laptops out in the wild. But Microsoft, Google and Mozilla are all looking for ways to bring their browsers to these kinds of devices. First out of the gate is Mozilla. On April 11, Mozilla is slated to deliver a beta build of Firefox for ARM-based laptops, as noted by CNET. The browser will be optimized to help reduce power consumption for ARM-based PCs that are aiming to provide long battery life. The new beta will be available for download from Mozilla's site. Mozilla announced in December 2018 that it was collaborating with Qualcomm to optimize Firefox for the Snapdragon compute platform and planned to release a native ARM64 version of Firefox. Meanwhile, Microsoft -- which just this week released its first public Canary and Developer test builds of Chromium-based Edge -- is continuing to work on the Chromium ARM64 platform in conjunction with Google. From a Microsoft blog post earlier this week: "We've been collaborating with Google engineers to enable Chromium to run natively on Windows on ARM devices starting with Chromium 73. With these contributions, Chromium-based browsers will soon be able to ship native implementations for ARM-based Windows 10 PCs, significantly improving their performance and battery life." Source
The AchieVer Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 Mozilla Firefox for Windows 10 ARM Now Available for Download Mozilla has released the first public beta of Firefox for Windows on ARM after the company previously rolled out an early look at the browser back in 2018. While it might seem like the project advances slowly, investing in an ARM64 browser wasn’t necessarily a priority given the rather poor adoption of Windows on ARM. However, Microsoft and Google have both suggested that their Chromium-based browsers would run on Windows devices with Snapdragon chips, so Mozilla decided to build its very own flavor of Firefox to expand in this direction. Despite being a beta, Firefox for Windows 10 ARM seems to be running quite smoothly, and more refinements would be added as the browser heads towards the final development stages.Browsers, browsers, browsersThere’s a lot happening in the browser world these days, and most of the projects come from the same three large developers here, namely Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla. After announcing that its browser would move from EdgeHTML to Chromium, Microsoft rolled out a preview of its new Microsoft Edge earlier this month, allowing users to try out the app on Windows 10. The new Edge will be available cross-platform, so it’ll also support older Windows and macOS. Meanwhile, Google is also developing its very own Chrome version for Windows on ARM, and a few days ago, a developer managed to get the browser running on the platform. In its turn, this successful attempt allowed others to install Google Chrome on Windows phones already updated to Windows 10 on ARM. There’s no ETA right now as to when Mozilla would release a stable version of its new Firefox browser, but given the application is already in an advanced development stage and everything’s working so smoothly, it shouldn’t take too long before an announcement in this regard is released. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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