On January 12, Mozilla released its latest Firefox 96 version.
Firefox 96 drastically reduces the load on the main thread, making the browser take up fewer system resources. It also makes significant improvements in noise suppression and automatic gain control, as well as minor improvements in echo cancellation.
Reducing the load on the main thread is certainly quite attractive, but in this day and age, the hardware performance is basically enough for the browser to occupy at will. Even Google Chrome, which is known for taking up a lot of memory, Xiao Lei will not feel too stuck. Opening a row of web pages, although it will occupy a lot of memory, but in fact, only a few browsers are reluctant to close.
When Xiao Lei wants to play some games that occupy a lot of memory, or run some professional software, Xiao Lei will sometimes directly close the entire browser, and when it is useful, a shortcut key will be restored. Xiao Lei pays more attention to the startup speed of the web page, and the Chromium kernel is still doing a good job in application startup.
According to Affde, Chrome is currently thriving in the desktop browser market, accounting for 68.76% of the market share, while Firefox is currently only about 7.17%, which has been on a downward trend since 2011. In the global desktop browser market. Apple's Safari is slightly higher, but the market share is only 9.7%, and Firefox and Edge are only about 7%.
Firefox is now basically competing with Edge. On September 14, 2021, foreign media The Verge reported that in Win 11, the default browser option has changed from a previous setting to a multiple suffix link format, and users need to manually replace one by one to replace the default browser.
Firefox couldn't stand it. In versions after Firefox 91, Firefox no longer needs to change the default browser through system settings, when Firefox is not the default browser, the user opens Firefox, it will display a pop-up window, and the user can set Firefox as the default browser with one click.
However, even so, Microsoft is also using the convenience of its own system, in the lock screen and other interfaces spare no effort to promote their own Edge browser, many users are actually casual use, click down. Xiao Lei expects that the edge market share will rise, and Firefox's market share may slowly decline.