Firefox 95 for Mac improves security, reduces power consumption
Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox for Mac that it says has cut down on the browser's CPU and power usage, plus added new security technology.
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A month after it revamped its visual design in Firefox 94, Mozilla has released Firefox 95 and concentrated on improving usability under the hood.
"We've reduced CPU usage on macOS in Firefox and WindowServer during event processing," says the company, in a blog post. "We've also reduced the power usage of software decoded video on macOS, especially in fullscreen. This includes streaming sites such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video."
Mozilla also says that users will "see a faster content process startup on macOS," and that it has improved page load performance. The existing Picture-in-Picture option has also been improved and users can move the control "to the opposite side of the video."
Firefox 95 is also about adding security. The major update is the inclusion of RLBox on all Firefox platforms. Mozilla describes this as "a new technology that hardens Firefox against potential vulnerabilities in third-party libraries."
The new version can be downloaded from the official site, where there are also detailed release notes.
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Firefox
A month after it revamped its visual design in Firefox 94, Mozilla has released Firefox 95 and concentrated on improving usability under the hood.
"We've reduced CPU usage on macOS in Firefox and WindowServer during event processing," says the company, in a blog post. "We've also reduced the power usage of software decoded video on macOS, especially in fullscreen. This includes streaming sites such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video."
Mozilla also says that users will "see a faster content process startup on macOS," and that it has improved page load performance. The existing Picture-in-Picture option has also been improved and users can move the control "to the opposite side of the video."
Firefox 95 is also about adding security. The major update is the inclusion of RLBox on all Firefox platforms. Mozilla describes this as "a new technology that hardens Firefox against potential vulnerabilities in third-party libraries."
The new version can be downloaded from the official site, where there are also detailed release notes.
Read on AppleInsider
Comments
I still use Safari for 98% of my browsing but Firefox is my goto when problems with Safari arise. Some say it’s because many developers still don’t test and code for Safari but Safari has a lot of presence on the web because of macOS and iOS so I doubt that’s a reason.
I don't log in. Pointless really as I've never had any form of account on a google owned service.
It is done on a totally sandboxed VM that is restored every 2-3 days.
All internet access is via a VPN that makes me appear as being in Warsaw, Poland.
On my home network, google.com is blocked by my firewall.
My default search engine is duckduckgo.
If you care about your own security on the internet then you have to spend some time working on it.
Be vigilant, Be safe.
I don't understand why anyone builds a web site which assumes your internet address location determines what language you speak instead of the primary language in the Accept-Language header from the request. It would be nice if web developers could believe that users actually know what they are doing rather than thinking they are smarter than everyone else because they can look up your location in a database of web addresses.
Maybe this behaviour is an example of companies bowing to the requests of governments to deliver specific content to their subjects (which I consider very bad practice).