Firefox 52 Allows Games to Run Faster Than Ever

The latest version of Firefox will enable games and other resource-hogging apps to "run faster than e'er before in a web browser," Mozilla said Wednesday.

Firefox 52, launched yesterday, supports a new Mozilla-adult standard called WebAssembly, which promises to bring the performance of native applications to the web in a secure way. The result is that complex apps, like games, will load and run much quicker.

"We expect that WebAssembly will enable applications that have historically been also complex to run fast in browsers — like immersive 3D video games, computer-aided blueprint, video and paradigm editing, and scientific visualization," Mozilla's Nick Nguyen wrote in a blog postal service. Mozilla expects developers to use WebAssembly to speed up many of their existing web apps.

For more on WebAssembly, check out the video below.

Meanwhile, the update should also brand it easier to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots.

"If you've ever had trouble connecting to hotel Wi-Fi, it's likely because yous had to sign in to a 'captive portal,' Nguyen explained. "These convict portals are often problematic because the login page itself is hard to discover if the operating system doesn't detect it. Very frequently, y'all attempt to navigate to a website and terminate up with an fault." Firefox 52 automatically detects these portals and notifies y'all that yous demand to log in.

For added security, Firefox will at present bear witness an alert if you're about to enter your username and password on a page that isn't encrypted with HTTPS.

Firefox 52 also disables all plugins that use the vintage Netscape Plugin API, with the exception of Wink. Firefox already blocks certain Flash content that is "not essential to the user experience," though the browser all the same supports legacy Flash content. Later this year, the browser will require "click-to-activate" approval from users before a website runs a Flash plugin for any content.

Nigh Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's good on fitness and smart abode products. Education yoga for well-nigh 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, centre charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, forcefulness preparation machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela also tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.

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