Firefox 61.0 Beta 13 (Quantum) Released, Supports Dark Color Themes
The Mozilla Firefox 61.0 Beta has been released, mainly bringing improvements to the performance of the Quantum engine, optimizing the process of handling CSS, making pages load faster, and users will also feel that switching tabs will also be faster.
Firefox 61.0 Beta also provides support for the dark theme. Interested friends can log in to Mozilla FTP to download this version.
New
- Performance Enhancements:
- Quantum CSS improvements which improve page rendering times
- Improved page rendering speed with the new retained display list feature
- Faster switching between tabs on Windows and Linux
- WebExtensions now run in their own process on MacOS
- Various improvements for dark theme support will provide a more consistent experience across the entire Firefox UI
- Added the ability to share current the URL with MacOS sharing providers from the Page Actions menu
- OpenSearch plugins offered by web pages can now be added from the page action menu for easier installation
- Improved support for allowing WebExtensions to manage and hide tabs
Changed
- The settings for customizing your homepage and new tab page in Firefox have been moved to a new Preferences section, Home. It can be accessed from the sidebar in Preferences or by visiting about:preferences#home
- In order to improve user security, access to FTP subresources inside http(s) pages has been blocked
Developer
- A new drop-down menu was added to the Developer Tools Network panel to allow bandwidth throttling, rather than requiring users to do so via Responsive Design Mode
