Mozilla takes a shot at Google Chrome in this ad.īut Mozilla has some grounds for optimism. Narrowing it just to personal computers - Mozilla's primary focus for the Quantum upgrade - Firefox has 13 percent to Chrome's 64 percent. Firefox accounts for 6 percent of browser usage today compared with 55 percent for Chrome and 15 percent for Apple's Safari. The tentative goal is can we double it again in 2018." Riding a 'huge upswing'Įven if Mozilla delivers that kind of speed boost, success won't be easy because it's hard to get people to change browsers.
"We doubled the performance of Firefox this year. "We pulled ourselves up to and in some cases ahead of Chrome," said Mark Mayo, Mozilla's senior vice president of Firefox. Firefox Quantum, a complete overhaul of the browser that took more than a year's work to achieve, is an attempt to start fresh. Google's Chrome is now the most-used browser by far, and Mozilla has largely been sidelined when it comes to phones and tablets. But since that triumph, its fortunes have faded. Mozilla famously undermined the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer when it launched Firefox 1.0 in 2004. He recommended web surfers use "multiple modern browsers." "Their mission is a good one and does keep pressure up to keep the web open," Gartner analyst David Smith said. Mozilla's mission is to keep the web open and competitive, and Firefox is how Mozilla works to endow the web with new technology like easier payments, virtual reality and fast WebAssembly-powered games. Second, Firefox has an important role to play if you care about the value of the web as neutral tech territory - a place free of the control Apple and Google exert over our phones and the apps we can run on them.
(ZDNet, a CNET sister site, also found that Firefox Quantum delivered on speed.)Īn inside-joke remake of the Heinz 57 ketchup bottle promises Firefox 57 users, "The best things come to those who wait." Mozilla knows Chrome won many of us over with performance, but after months testing it, I can affirm Firefox 57 delivers its promised big bang. Why? First and foremost, version 57 of the open-source browser is faster, clocking in at twice the speed of Firefox 52 from March, according to the Speedometer 2.0 benchmark. Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox Quantum, and even if you long ago switched to Google Chrome, it's worth giving the browser upgrade a spin.
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