Firefox now supports Apple's Retina display on Mac OS 10.7 or later, meaning it takes advantage of the improvements Apple has added to its latest monitors. Whenever Firefox detects that you navigate to such a site, or that a page you visit is trying to pull data from it, Firefox will present you with a warning page and allow you to abort the operation.Īnother important addition is, unfortunately, restricted to Mac users. The phishing and malware protection works by regularly updating a local list of known bad sites, provided by Google through its SafeBrowsing database. The feature is designed to provide phishing and malware protection for mobile users. The mobile version of Firefox 18, (available for Android, but not iOS), comes with Safe Browsing enabled. 8.61 Mps when downloading and almost no difference when uploading. I did a quick and dirty test using and found that Chome is a bit faster than Firefox 18, at least on my home network, but the gap isn’t much: 8.67 Mps vs. Google’s Chrome browser is generally considered somewhat faster than Firefox. Mozilla engineer Dave Anderson said in a blog post that according to one of those, Firefox 18 is 7 percent faster than its immediate predecessor (see graph below, courtesy of Mozilla). One of those, a new JavaScript engine, called IonMonkey, makes Firefox 18 faster, but how much faster is unclear to me.Īs you may know, there are many benchmarks that judge browser performance. The new version has a number of very geeky - but important - changes under the hood, while the interface is unchanged. Today’s featured browser: Mozilla’s just-released Firefox 18, which runs a bit faster, renders screens better if you’re on a Mac, and is more secure in its mobile iterations. Just because I’ve declared an end to the browser speed wars, that doesn’t mean I won’t keep you up to date on the newest versions.
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