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Mozilla responds to Google: Firefox 64 available

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Days of ferment for the browsers. Microsoft , after many rumors, has confirmed that Edge will be reborn and will be based on Chromium , the open-source browser created by Google and from which Chrome is derived . The Redmond house wants to " make significant contributions to the Chromium project, in a way that not only makes Microsoft Edge - but also other browsers - better on both PC and other devices" . With Edge, in fact, out of the games the scepter contends Chrome and Firefox. Google for a week has launched Chrome 71. Mozilla for its part announced Firefox 64.

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Let's summarize the main new features introduced in Firefox 64 which is roll-out for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux and Android systems .

A first change concerns the management of the cards. It is now possible to move the tabs by holding down the CTRL key on one or more of them. You can group and then close a series of tabs. Or add them in groups to bookmarks. It also changes "Activity management" which shows you the consumption of each card. I remind you that Task Manager can be reached by typing about: performance in the address bar.

A new system of proactive suggestions has been introduced called CFR (Contextual feature Recommender). CFR actually allows you to discover new add-ons (extensions) based on your personal web browsing . If you do not like this thing you can disable it by giving ALT , Tools, Options then scroll through the settings in the General tab and uncheck the box in Suggest extensions when browsing .

The about: crashes page has been made clearer, deprecated support for TLS certificates issued by Symantec. With Firefox 64 it was decided to proceed with the removal of Live Bookmarks and support for RSS and Atom feeds. This release fixes several bugs, more details here and here .

Last but not least: Mozilla talks about performance improvements on Linux with this version 64.

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