Firefox Quantum Flow greatly enhances the responsiveness of the browser

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The Mozilla Firefox browser was introduced in 2004 and has been changing since then. Part of these upgrades is Project Quantum, in which all browser modules are written in the Rust language, which has a particularly positive impact on Firefox's performance.

One of the main objectives of Project Quantum is to reduce to zero the impact of inactive sections. Developers highlight the impressive productivity growth. Several versions of Firefox were used in the tests, and 1691 open tabs were measured for the browser load time. The worst was Firefox 51 with a score of over 3 minutes.

After plugging in Quantum Flow in the Firefox 55 browser, the charging time drops to 15 seconds or 30 times. Firefox 20 opens the same number of sections in just over a minute, and in the next versions this result gets worse. Quantum Flow accelerates the browser more than it was on April 2, 2013 when Firefox 20 came out.

And more, Quantum Flow provides more efficient memory management. With 1691 open tabs but no loaded web pages in them, Firefox 55 uses less than 500 MB of RAM. Previous versions under the same conditions use about 2 GB of memory.

These changes raise Firefox to the level of Google Chrome, which has so far been the preferred option.

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