Mozilla Fixes 32 Security Flaws, Accelerates Performance in Firefox 58 | Linux Today

Mozilla Fixes 32 Security Flaws, Accelerates Performance in Firefox 58

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jan 24, 2018

Firefox 58 is the second major release in the Quantum series, which became generally available in November 2017 with Firefox 57. A core element of the Firefox Quantum browser series is performance, and that has been improved even more in Firefox 58, thanks to a capability called Off-Main-Thread-Painting (OMTP).

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Sean Michael Kerner

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