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   1 0Tor Browser Gets a Redesign, Switches To New Firefox Quantum Engine (zdnet.com)        null/SLASHDOT/0102637536                70
   2 i  Thursday September 06, 2018 @11:30PM (msmash)
   3 i  from the for-the-record dept.
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   5 i    The  Tor  Browser  has  [1]rolled  out a new interface with the
   6 i    release of v8 . From a report:
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   8 i    >  The  Tor  Browser  has  always  been  based  on  the Firefox
   9 i    codebase,  but  it lagged behind a few releases. Mozilla rolled
  10 i    out  a major overhaul of the Firefox codebase in November 2017,
  11 i    with  the  release  of  Firefox 57, [2]the first release in the
  12 i    Firefox  Quantum  series . Firefox Quantum came with a new page
  13 i    rendering  engine,  a new add-ons API, and a new user interface
  14 i    called  the  Photon UI. Because these were major, code-breaking
  15 i    changes,  it  took  the smaller Tor team some time to integrate
  16 i    all  of  them  into  the  Tor  Browser  codebase  and make sure
  17 i    everything  worked as intended. The new Tor Browser 8, released
  18 i    yesterday,  is  now  in  sync  with  the most recent version of
  19 i    Firefox,  the  Quantum  release,  and  also supports all of its
  20 i    features.  This  means the Tor Browser now uses the same modern
  21 i    Photon  UI  that  current Firefox versions use, it supports the
  22 i    same   speed-optimized  page  rendering  engine  and  has  also
  23 i    dropped  support  for  the old XUL-based add-ons system for the
  24 i    new  WebExtensions  API  system used by Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi,
  25 i    Brave, and the rest of the Chromium browsers.
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  29 i    [1]  https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-browser-gets-a-redesign-
  30 i    switches-to-new-firefox-quantum-engine/
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  32 i    [2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/11/25/1938225/firefox-q-
  33 i    uantum-is-better-faster-smarter-than-chrome-says-wired
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