Firefox 54 was launched today by the Mozilla company, promoting the new version of the browser as perfect for those who want to surf the Internet faster, with less RAM memory consumption. Firefox 54 has integrated a technology called multi-process architecture which makes navigation faster and more stable even if we have several tabs open.
Firefox 54 is specially designed for computers that have 8 GB of RAM, or less, enjoying a great increase in performance thanks to this technology. Firefox 54 now uses up to 4 processes to open the content in all our tabs, and this means that a complex page will affect the overall Internet browsing experience less.
The old version of Firefox used a single process for all the tabs opened by us, but with Firefox 54 this was increased to 4 processes, so we are talking about a major change. To promote this new feature of Firefox 54, the image below was created that shows us how much RAM the tabs open in the background consume.
As you can see, Mozilla boasts that Firefox 54 consumes half the memory required for Google Chrome, but even less than Safri in macOS. Of course, the Windows operating system has the biggest problems, but Firefox 54 claims to have solved them all with this update, but we have to convince ourselves how good it is.
"The old Firefox used a single process to run all the tabs in a browser. Modern browsers split the load into several independent processes. We named our project to split Firefox into multiple processes 'Electrolysis' (or E10s) after the chemical process that divides water into its core elements. E10s is the largest change to Firefox code in our history. Besides running faster and crashing less, E10S makes websites feel more smooth. Even busy pages, like Facebook newsfeeds, spool out smoothly and cleanly."
