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