The problem is, it's very old, and with Firefox, the good stuff comes with the last versions.
Especially, modern Firefox is wicked fast, while just a few versions before, it was less so. The difference is _staggering_.
I think there is a space for add ons to setup Firefox to be more privacy focused. It's easier to maintain than a fork: compiling on so many targets such a huge software is very hard.
On my phone, I have the newest version of Firefox Fennec and IceCatMobile (ancient and barely supported) - they both launch and function at, as far as I can see, exactly the same speed. Where is this speedup you mention actually found?
While I do use Firefox on mobile, I'm talking about the desktop version, like most people do.
The latest rendering improvements are showing great results, and hardware acceleration on Linux is now on part with Windows, so it's fantastic to use on a modern laptop.
Does Firefox do hardware acceleration for videos yet? It still does it in software by default on Linux as far as I know, unless this has changed recently?
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The problem is, it's very old, and with Firefox, the good stuff comes with the last versions.
Especially, modern Firefox is wicked fast, while just a few versions before, it was less so. The difference is _staggering_.
I think there is a space for add ons to setup Firefox to be more privacy focused. It's easier to maintain than a fork: compiling on so many targets such a huge software is very hard.
On my phone, I have the newest version of Firefox Fennec and IceCatMobile (ancient and barely supported) - they both launch and function at, as far as I can see, exactly the same speed. Where is this speedup you mention actually found?
While I do use Firefox on mobile, I'm talking about the desktop version, like most people do.
The latest rendering improvements are showing great results, and hardware acceleration on Linux is now on part with Windows, so it's fantastic to use on a modern laptop.
Does Firefox do hardware acceleration for videos yet? It still does it in software by default on Linux as far as I know, unless this has changed recently?
Don't know, videos are seemless but I got a very powerful CPU.