Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

Firefox 55 Is Ready To Shine With Performance Improvements

Written by Michael Larabel in Mozilla on 7 August 2017 at 08:00 PM EDT. 52 Comments

Mozilla's Firefox 55 web browser is now deemed stable while Firefox 56 enters beta and Firefox 57 is the new nightly build.

Firefox 55 features Mozilla's new WebExtensions permissions system, new performance settings have been exposed, new work on theme support, support for WebVR on Windows, performance work on WebExtensions, and more.

Firefox 55 should particularly see performance improvements when dealing with many tabs, quicker start-up, and hopefully lower memory use. There's also a built-in screenshot utility that is gradually being rolled out to Firefox users.

Firefox 55.0 can be downloaded via Mozilla FTP.

52 Comments

Firefox 131 Released With Tab Preview & CHIPS Support

Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support

Mozilla Is Interested In A Rust JPEG-XL Decoder For Firefox & Google Might Develop It

Firefox 130 Now Available With WebCodecs API Enabled On The Desktop

Mozilla Developing Whisperfile For Local Audio-To-Text Translation

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.