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1 | 0Tor Browser Gets a Redesign, Switches To New Firefox Quantum Engine (zdnet.com) null/SLASHDOT/0102637536 70\r |
| 2 | i Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)\r | |
| 3 | i from the for-the-record dept.\r | |
| 4 | i\r | |
| 5 | i The Tor Browser has rolled out a new interface with the\r | |
| 6 | i release of v8. From a report: The Tor Browser has always been\r | |
| 7 | i based on the Firefox codebase, but it lagged behind a few\r | |
| 8 | i releases. Mozilla rolled out a major overhaul of the Firefox\r | |
| 9 | i codebase in November 2017, with the release of Firefox 57, the\r | |
| 10 | i first release in the Firefox Quantum series. Firefox Quantum\r | |
| 11 | i came with a new page rendering engine, a new add-ons API, and\r | |
| 12 | i a new user interface called the Photon UI. Because these were\r | |
| 13 | i major, code-breaking changes, it took the smaller Tor team\r | |
| 14 | i some time to integrate all of them into the Tor Browser\r | |
| 15 | i codebase and make sure everything worked as intended. The new\r | |
| 16 | i Tor Browser 8, released yesterday, is now in sync with the\r | |
| 17 | i most recent version of Firefox, the Quantum release, and also\r | |
| 18 | i supports all of its features. This means the Tor Browser now\r | |
| 19 | i uses the same modern Photon UI that current Firefox versions\r | |
| 20 | i use, it supports the same speed-optimized page rendering\r | |
| 21 | i engine and has also dropped support for the old XUL-based\r | |
| 22 | i add-ons system for the new WebExtensions API system used by\r | |
| 23 | i Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, and the rest of the Chromium\r | |
| 24 | i browsers.\r | |
| 25 | i\r |