{"id":118305,"date":"2017-06-14T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=118305"},"modified":"2017-06-14T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T11:01:13","slug":"new-firefox-update-boosts-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/118305-new-firefox-update-boosts-performance","title":{"rendered":"New Firefox update boosts performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has launched the latest version of its Firefox browser, which adds support for multiple processes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/54.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Firefox 54<\/strong><\/a> brings a live implementation of multi-process support, making it the first Firefox release to use multiple system processes for web page content.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox 54 allows up to four system processes to run web content across open tabs.<\/p>\n<p>This improves performance by separating tabs into independent processes and using hardware more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/faster-better-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>blog post<\/strong><\/a>, Firefox 54 improves performance across all devices, especially on systems with limited memory.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla tested its updated browser\u2019s memory usage against Google Chrome and Edge, and found that its new features resulted in improved memory usage in relation to the other browsers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Browser-memory-usage.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"1944952903\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"slb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-215358\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Browser-memory-usage.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Browser-memory-usage.jpg 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Browser-memory-usage-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Browser-memory-usage-595x400.jpg 595w\" alt=\"Browser memory usage\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/215356-firefox-54-brings-massive-performance-improvements.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/213582-brave-the-browser-taking-on-the-internets-ad-problem.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Brave \u2013 The browser taking on the Internet\u2019s \u201cad problem\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla has launched the latest version of its Firefox browser, which adds support for multiple processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":99138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2005,2940,435],"class_list":["post-118305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}