Firefox 69.0.3 update and WebRender enhancements

Submitted by corrective update of Firefox 69.0.3 which solved problem with displaying a dialog for downloading files when you click on an email in Yahoo webmail. Additionally resolved problems with downloading files when launching the browser in Windows 10 with parental controls enabled.

You can also note continued development compositing systems WebRender, written in the Rust language and outsourcing the rendering of page content to the GPU side. When using WebRender, instead of the built-in compositing system built into the Gecko engine, which processes data using the CPU, shaders running on the GPU are used to perform summary rendering operations on page elements, which allows for a significant increase in rendering speed and reduced CPU load.

WebRender added to nightly builds mobile browser Firefox Preview (Firefox replacement for Android) and enabled by default for Pixel 2 devices (other devices require gfx.webrender.all to be enabled in about:config). WebRender has also improved its image caching and rendering systems. The code for text rasterization has been reworked, which allows to achieve support for subpixel text positioning on Linux and Android platforms.

When running Firefox on top of Wayland, a new backendusing mechanism DMABUF for rendering to textures and organization sharing buffers with these textures located in video memory among different processes. In addition, image decoding performance optimizations have been added, using SIMD instructions for acceleration and reducing format conversion time by 5-10%.

Source: opennet.ru

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