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The time has finally come for Firefox to upgrade the aging Gecko
rendering engine that served it for 20 or some years.The upgrade will
enable Firefox to take full advantage of modern CPU's and GPU's, and
result in lighting fast performance improvements on both desktop and
mobile devices.
"Pages will load faster, and scrolling will be silky smooth. Animations and interactive apps will respond instantly, and be able to handle more intensive content while holding consistent frame rates. And the content most important to you will automatically get the highest priority, focusing processing power where you need it the most."
It wouldn't be that easy however.Switching from a solid, long serving and well proven engine to something new, constitutes a formidable task, especially when the project in question, the Firefox browser, is live and in production.
full article on i-programmer
"Pages will load faster, and scrolling will be silky smooth. Animations and interactive apps will respond instantly, and be able to handle more intensive content while holding consistent frame rates. And the content most important to you will automatically get the highest priority, focusing processing power where you need it the most."
It wouldn't be that easy however.Switching from a solid, long serving and well proven engine to something new, constitutes a formidable task, especially when the project in question, the Firefox browser, is live and in production.
full article on i-programmer
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