Firefox 54: What's new for developers?

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Jason and Gro
Thu 15 Jun 2017 18:24
Firefox 54 came out on Tuesday! What makes it special? For one, it's multi-process, making it screaming fast.
 

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Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS clip-path

Today’s release completes Firefox’s transformation into a fully multi-process browser, running many simultaneous content processes in addition to a UI process and, on Windows, a special GPU process.

This design makes it easier to utilize all of the cores available on modern processors and, in the future, to securely sandbox web content. It also improves stability, ensuring that a single content process crashing won’t take out all of your other tabs, nor the rest of the browser.

Read more about what's new


Other News

Firefox Release Notes: see what's new in both 54 (general-release) and 55 (beta)
Check the dev-focused release notes >>

Introducing FilterBubbler: A WebExtension built using React/Redux
Read how FilterBubbler was built from start to finish >>

A crash course in memory management
To understand why ArrayBuffer and SharedArrayBuffer were added to _javascript_, you need to understand a bit about memory management. >>

Inside WebAssembly with Mozilla Fellow David Bryant
Listen to the podcast >>



💡 DevTools: Did you know?

Network Monitor Reloaded (Part 1): the network monitor is improved with this version of Firefox DevTools
See what's new >>



On MDN

1. WebVR 1.1 Documentation now complete

2. Learn about WebExtensions

3. In case you missed it, MDN is getting a new look and a new name



Some Upcoming Mozilla Developer Roadshow Events

Jun 20, 2017 - Washington DC @ General Assembly

Jul 25, 2017 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Lucid

Jul 27, 2017 - Denver, CO @ Galvanize

Watch this space for information about our upcoming View Source conference in London this October!

More dates and cities listed in the full calendar. Check the schedule-in-progress.


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