If you’ve been following Firefox development over the last year, you probably know that we’re hard at work on a major refactor of the browser, codenamed Quantum.
It’s been a very exciting and challenging time with hundreds of engineers bringing to life new concepts and incorporating them into our engine – Gecko. Those refactors, which will culminate in the release of Firefox 57, touch the very foundation of our engine and require massive changes to it.
We’ve moved the whole engine from a single to multi-process model which is perhaps the hardest possible refactor a major piece of software can go through. We’ve added a whole new systems level programming language, and we’re replacing major components of the engine such as styling and rendering systems. There are substantial changes to our networking layer and security layers as well as completely new components like a new extension ecosystem, virtual reality stack and APZ. We’ve added another new programming language as part of our JS engine and significantly remodeled our build process and infrastructure allowing for quick feature testing, telemetry analysis to understand how our changes impact users and many, many more things.
The changes are massive. This is the largest refactor to Gecko and Firefox in my 17 years of contributing to the project. But we’re not done yet…
Here’s my request. Over the next 3 weeks, consider booking some of your time to help us make Firefox 57 great for you and for your friends. It can be as little as an hour per week, or half of your Saturday, or maybe more.
We can all make a real impact and help the major improvements developed by the whole Mozilla project really shine with final touches from folks like us. There are several hundred backlog items. If we can get a hundred contributors each fixing one bug per week, we’ll fix them all!
And in 3 weeks, we can send off Firefox 57 to beta knowing we all contributed to making the web a healthy ecosystem and participated in the release of an amazing product.
Will you help make Firefox great again? Smash that comment button and let me know all about it.
FAGIOLI FAGIOLI GET THE FUCK BACK TO >>>Holla Forumsioli
Zachary Edwards
Firefox went to shit since they fired the CEO guy.
Crashes all the time, everyone should uninstall that shit and tell everyone else to do the same.
Nathaniel Roberts
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Connor Collins
FAGIOLI should go back to Holla Forums and kill himself for being an apple-worshiping closeted faggot cuck
Landon Hall
what are you using user? I'm still on pozfox, whats the Holla Forums consensus?
Jaxson Anderson
That was a great thread.
Use Waterfox instead.
Christopher Ortiz
OH SHIT BETANEWS IS A DNC HONEYPOT DO NOT CLICK
Gabriel Martinez
Oh wait, that's the registrar. I'm retarded, nevermind.
Easton Cruz
FAGIOLI FAGIOLI PUT DOWN THE BURGEROLI
Elijah Morgan
Faggots like this and trannys are the tech shock troops of the left.
All of them flow out of the aids ridden bunghole of San Francisco.
Jack King
I've become attached to Palemoon
Parker Peterson
use midori for a supreme browsing experience
Daniel Jones
I switched over to Vivaldi. It's decently fast, although it annoys me that it can't wipe history automatically between sessions like I've been used to with Mozilla-based browsers. GNU IceCat is probably the best option, if you can run it.
It's funny, I switched to Pale Meme after the Soros data collection reveal. And then within a week, the furfag curator of PM went against the "your browser, your way" philosophy by banning AdNauseum.
Angel Fisher
what
Also sage for shit thread, people should be using Brave, Pale Moon, or one of the other uncucked browsers.
