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.
5 i The Tor Browser has rolled out a new interface with the
6 i release of v8. From a report: The Tor Browser has always been
7 i based on the Firefox codebase, but it lagged behind a few
8 i releases. Mozilla rolled out a major overhaul of the Firefox
9 i codebase in November 2017, with the release of Firefox 57, the
10 i first release in the Firefox Quantum series. Firefox Quantum
11 i came with a new page rendering engine, a new add-ons API, and
12 i a new user interface called the Photon UI. Because these were
13 i major, code-breaking changes, it took the smaller Tor team
14 i some time to integrate all of them into the Tor Browser
15 i codebase and make sure everything worked as intended. The new
16 i Tor Browser 8, released yesterday, is now in sync with the
17 i most recent version of Firefox, the Quantum release, and also
18 i supports all of its features. This means the Tor Browser now
19 i uses the same modern Photon UI that current Firefox versions
20 i use, it supports the same speed-optimized page rendering
21 i engine and has also dropped support for the old XUL-based
22 i add-ons system for the new WebExtensions API system used by
23 i Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Brave, and the rest of the Chromium