For years, Firefox used Yahoo as a default, though it also offered Google and Bing as alternative selections, but it recently terminated its contract with Yahoo, according to an email statement from Mozilla. Note that after opening the 10th tab, Quantum begins to show a squiggly loading sign on new tabs.ĭespite competing against Google in the browser space, Firefox does resort to using Google as the default search engine in the US, Canada, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
On my Asus laptop with an Intel Core i5, it runs six processes for 20 open tabs, while Google Chrome runs 21 processes for 14 tabs. As you open more tabs in Quantum, it takes up less memory than opening up multiple tabs in Chrome. The biggest selling point of Quantum versus Chrome is the smaller RAM usage - something Google has been repeatedly critiqued for over the years.
Night Mode and other features are available as Firefox free add-ons. The new browser also includes Pocket recommendations of what sites to browse on every new tab. It also exceeds the performance of Google Chrome in a browser speed test battle.
The company claims it’s twice as fast as the original Firefox from six months ago.įirefox Quantum has a sleek UI with the option to customize the toolbar. Firefox today released its newest browser Firefox Quantum out of beta.
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