| 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 [1]rolled out a new interface with the\r |
| 6 | i release of v8 . From a report:\r |
| 7 | i \r |
| 8 | i > The Tor Browser has always been based on the Firefox\r |
| 9 | i codebase, but it lagged behind a few releases. Mozilla rolled\r |
| 10 | i out a major overhaul of the Firefox codebase in November 2017,\r |
| 11 | i with the release of Firefox 57, [2]the first release in the\r |
| 12 | i Firefox Quantum series . Firefox Quantum came with a new page\r |
| 13 | i rendering engine, a new add-ons API, and a new user interface\r |
| 14 | i called the Photon UI. Because these were major, code-breaking\r |
| 15 | i changes, it took the smaller Tor team some time to integrate\r |
| 16 | i all of them into the Tor Browser codebase and make sure\r |
| 17 | i everything worked as intended. The new Tor Browser 8, released\r |
| 18 | i yesterday, is now in sync with the most recent version of\r |
| 19 | i Firefox, the Quantum release, and also supports all of its\r |
| 20 | i features. This means the Tor Browser now uses the same modern\r |
| 21 | i Photon UI that current Firefox versions use, it supports the\r |
| 22 | i same speed-optimized page rendering engine and has also\r |
| 23 | i dropped support for the old XUL-based add-ons system for the\r |
| 24 | i new WebExtensions API system used by Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi,\r |
| 25 | i Brave, and the rest of the Chromium browsers.\r |
| 26 | i \r |
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| 29 | i [1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-browser-gets-a-redesign-\r |
| 30 | i switches-to-new-firefox-quantum-engine/\r |
| 31 | i \r |
| 32 | i [2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/11/25/1938225/firefox-q-\r |
| 33 | i uantum-is-better-faster-smarter-than-chrome-says-wired\r |
| 34 | i\r |