Mozilla has released Firefox 61 which is built on the speed of the Quantum Firefox, with smarter memory management that speeds up web browsing, and providing users of the open-source browser some nifty new features.
The new feature, Retained display lists, enable the browser to construct the view of a website from memory without recalculating everything about the page, and only recalculate the aspects of the page that has changed.
While the tab management has received a boost in Firefox 61, enabling users to manage browser tabs more effectively. And the Tab Warming feature offers faster response time when switching between tabs, through the pre-emptive loading tabs as a mouse is hovered over the tab.
Mozilla has also beefed up the browser security wise, with support for TLS 1.3, the new version of the Transport Layer Security standard which promises faster encrypted communications between the browser and a website to prevent snooping.
Additionally, the company now demands that developers whose extensions are used to enhance Firefox's behavior should implement the new capabilities of hiding the tabs, and only to take actions when they're opened.
Mozilla's aim is to iron out the extensions architecture it overhauled with Quantum Firefox, and also adopting similar approach to Chrome's implementation.
Firefox 61 is the fourth major update of Mozilla's flagship browser in 2018, following closely on the heels Firefox 60 which made debut on May 9, all part of Mozilla's effort to reclaim lost ground from Google's Chrome browser.
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