{"id":62900,"date":"2017-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2017\/11\/20\/firefox-feels-like-speed-light\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T00:00:00","slug":"firefox-feels-like-speed-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/firefox-feels-like-speed-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Feels Like the Speed of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New Firefox came out of a project we at Mozilla call \u201cQuantum,\u201d a massive technology implementation that modernized our web browser engine using a new programming language called Rust. And the engine is fast. Very, very fast on the inside.<\/p>\n

\"What<\/p>\n

Where the Quantum project was used to rev up the engine, a project called \u201cPhoton<\/a>\u201d modernized and improved our outer design look and feel. Very, very fast on the outside<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And a funny thing about \u201cfast\u201d design: it\u2019s a lot about perception. Light itself is made up of photons, these wave-particle tricksters that travel 300 million meters-per-second and scatter off each other by the infinity-gazillions to create what we see with our eyes.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of life\u2019s most amazing optical illusions\u2014all these quantums of energy given off by photons, creating the visual world we see!<\/p>\n

What\u2019s this got to do with Web Browsers?<\/b><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s been about 5 years since our last browser redesign, and we used these optical design principles of \u201cfast\u201d in how we approached the work. The New Firefox runs super fast inside, but the way we\u2019ve designed it outside makes it even faster\u2014especially on phones, tablets, and other devices where you need to feel the fast.<\/p>\n

For the curious, we\u2019ll be talking more about the specific design features of the New Firefox over the next few weeks but the main point is it all adds up to an amazing web browser we can\u2019t wait for you to experience.<\/p>\n

Try the New Firefox<\/a> today. See what you think! (Or is it, see what you perceive<\/i>?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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