The AchieVer Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Mozilla Firefox 67 to Kick Off WebRender Rollout to Stable Users Mozilla seems to be ready to kick off the rollout of WebRender, a new system whose purpose is to make rendering much smoother by pushing it even beyond 60 frames per second. As per this reddit thread, Mozilla will enable WebRender for 5% of the users beginning with the release of Firefox 67, with the rollout to advance gradually in the next updates. WebRender was first spotted in a commit back in September 2015, and work on the project continued in the last years to bring the new tech closer to being ready for all users. Mozilla explained in an October 2017 blog post that WebRender “fundamentally changes the way the rendering engine works to make it more like a 3D game engine.”New Firefox version coming later this weekSo the purpose of WebRender isn’t necessarily to make rendering faster, but smoother especially on devices where the necessary hardware exists. “With WebRender, we want apps to run at a silky smooth 60 frames per second (FPS) or better no matter how big the display is or how much of the page is changing from frame to frame. And it works. Pages that chug along at 15 FPS in Chrome or today’s Firefox run at 60 FPS with WebRender,” Mozilla explained at that point. While specifics haven’t been provided, it’s believed WebRender could only become available for Windows 10 users at first, and Mozilla might only enable it on devices where an NVIDIA GPU is detected. This is the reason the company goes for a gradual rollout, as Mozilla first wants to gain more data on how rendering is improved before more devices are getting the new feature. Mozilla Firefox 67 is projected to launch tomorrow for stable users on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 How to Try Out Mozilla’s WebRender Ahead of the Public Launch in Firefox 67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted May 20, 2019 Administrator Share Posted May 20, 2019 GPU based web rendering. Now this is quite big if you ask me about it. Some background on it. Some really detailed explanation on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The AchieVer Posted May 21, 2019 Author Share Posted May 21, 2019 Mozilla Firefox 67 Now Available for Download Mozilla has just released a new version of Firefox browser for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The official release notes aren’t yet available because the company has only recently updated its download links to serve Firefox 67. Furthermore, the new version of Firefox can only be installed using the manual download option, as Mozilla hasn’t started the automatic rollout via the built-in auto-update engine integrated into the browser. As for what’s new, changes that Mozilla has previously tested as part of Firefox Nightly suggested Firefox 67 could come with an improved password manager, but also with under-the-hood tweaks that could help reduce memory usage. Furthermore, Firefox 67 introduces new privacy controls that automatically block extensions in private browsing windows. This happens because Mozilla wants private browsing to prevent user tracking, and extensions that are still enabled can log certain information. Users can enable extensions in private windows.Automatic rollout not yet liveFirefox 67 is the first major release that takes place after the extension blunder that took place several weeks ago. An expired certificate caused Firefox add-ons to be disabled for all users and make it impossible to install other extensions and themes. Mozilla released two emergency updates to correct the bug and eventually decided to push back the release of Firefox 67 for one week. Right now, the issue is already fixed, and everything is working as expected in Firefox browser. Mozilla Firefox is currently considered the only worthy alternative to Chromium-based browsers, especially after Microsoft itself embraced this engine for Microsoft Edge. Firefox has a market share that gets close to 10 percent, according to NetMarketShare, while Google Chrome runs on some 65 percent of desktops across the world. The automatic rollout based on the update engine integrated into the browser is likely to begin in a few hours, with the new version release notes also expected anytime soon. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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