![]() Quantum also prioritizes things it thinks the user is actually going to care more about - so articles load before images do, and while that’s not always what someone might want, it’s almost always something I want. The browser automatically prioritizes active tabs resulting in a faster ‘apparent’ performance. The Mozilla team seems to know this and has applied it to Quantum. However, when it comes to the end user, benchmarks, and background improvements are only as important as the visible effect they have to the user themselves. I tend to open a lot of tabs during my browsing, and often forget about them after a while, but I prefer to keep them in the browser, rather than Press J to jump to the feed. Quantum loads pages much faster than Chrome The team behind Quantum used Rust to write every bit of code for their new browser, including a brand new CSS engine, ‘Stylo’, that is capable of spreading work between multiple cores - something that’s not possible with CSS engines used in other browsers. The secret sauce to Firefox Quantum’s amazing performance is Mozilla’s very own ‘Rust’ programming language. So How Does Firefox Quantum Pull This Off? Rust. Even without suspending tabs, Firefox was noticeably faster than Chrome has ever been and unlike Safari, it doesn’t mess up with WordPress either. For this tutorial, we will be looking at the following methods: Sleeping tabs. I ran the same ‘app.sh’ script I run every morning to open my 30 favorite websites, and while the difference in RAM consumption came to just about 300MB, the difference in speed was very noticeable. So you will find a tab suspender for Edge, Firefox, Chrome, or any other browser. Sure, Firefox doesn’t have ‘ The Great Suspender‘ - a Chrome extension I use to suspend inactive tabs, but it doesn’t really need it. From research and Twitter, to WordPress and Quip everything I’ve usually done on Chrome, I did on Firefox and boy, I didn’t miss Chrome at all. #FIREFOX TAB SUSPENDER FULL#For one full day, I transferred all my Chrome work to Firefox. ![]()
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