Release Web browser Firefox 94 . In addition, the update has been formed branches with a long service life – 91.3.0 . On the stage of beta testing translated Firefox 95 branch, the release of which is scheduled on December 7.
- a new service page “ about: unloads “On which a user to reduce memory consumption can be forced to unload the most resource-intensive tabs from the memory, without closing them (the contents will be rebooted during the transition to the tab). On the “About: Unloads” page, the available tabs are listed in order of priority of displacement during the lack of RAM. The priority in the list is selected depending on the time of access to the tab, and not on the basis of consumed resources. When you press the UNLOAD button, the first tab from the list will be displaced from the memory, the next time you press the second, etc. You can not extend the tab to your selection yet.
- When you first start, after installing the update, a new interface is launched to select six seasonal color topics for which three levels of the dark shade are proposed that affect the display of the content area in the dark colors, panels and the switching lines.
- proposed a strict isolation mode of sites, developing within the framework of the Fission project. In contrast to the currently arbitrary distribution of tab processing on an affordable processes pool (default 8), the strict insulation mode makes the processing of each site in its separate separation process not by tabs, but by domains (Public Suffix ). The mode is not activated for all users, the “About: Preference # Experimental” page or the “Fission.AutoStart” page may be used to disable or enable in about: config.
The new mode provides more reliable protection against Spectre class attacks, reduces memory fragmentation Allows you to additionally isolate the contents of external scripts and IFRAME blocks.
More effectively returns the memory of the operating system, minimizes the effect of garbage collection and intensive calculations on the pages in other processes, increases the efficiency of the load distribution to different CPU kernels and increases stability (collapse of the IFRAME process, will not pull the main website and other tabs). The price is the overall increase in memory consumption with a large number of open sites. - users are offered Supplement