


If you are already on Firefox’s experimental Aurora release channel, you won’t have to do anything, as the Developer Edition will replace the Aurora channel in the release process. Verge3D is an artist-friendly toolkit that allows Blender, 3ds Max, or Maya artists to create immersive web-based experiences.

If you are a web developer, I would certainly recommend having Firefox Developer Edition browser installed along with your other browsers. In my every-day development, I make extensive use of Page Inspector, Responsive design view, Debugger, Network and Performance analyzer, Eyedropper and almost every other feature which are now pre-installed in Firefox in the Developer Edition. Having a dedicated browser for Developers will surely drive Firefox to include many more developer oriented features in future.įirefox Developer Edition also comes with Valence – a powerful, pre-installed extension that allows you to Inspect and debug your app across any browser or device. While the developer tools included in Firefox Developer Edition browser are same as the Mozilla’s developer tools that are available as regular addons for original Firefox, having them pre-packaged in a developer edition browser is a major convenience. Starting from its dark themed look to the extensive dev tools that come pre-packaged, everything seems to be made as per my liking. Personally, it really optimizes many aspects graphically because I found that the browser, especially when working with a lot of tabs opened, the browser will respond way better than before.Firefox, on its 10th anniversary, announced a Developer Edition Browser, and it has become an instant favorite of mine for web development work and also for everyday browsing. To enable Accelerated compositing in Firefox, search for the -enabled property, and set it to true:Īnd that's everything, you just need to restart the firefox browser and try its new speed. Hardware acceleration is enabled by default on Google Chrome for example: To understand how this works, you need to know how a web page is actually rendered by Gecko or WebKit. Making better use of the available graphics hardware of the device, delegating the work that is required to composite the final view of a webpage from all the layers that it contains, which means for you as a final user, that you will have a better user experience and rendering performance. Turn on Accelerated Compositing LayersĪCL or Accelerated Compositing Layers goes about the point to take advantage of the GPU when available to accelerate the rendering of web content. You may as well uncheck the given option so it won't appear after accessing the configuration again. You need to click on Accept the risk and continue.

You can edit the element’s CSS on the fly from the Rules panel. To help you find specific properties, the properties panel includes a search box. There’s also a CSS properties panel switch between the two by clicking the Rules and Properties buttons. Most of the times, especially when it's the first time you launch this area, you will see a warning: Click the Style button to see the CSS rules applied to the selected element. To access the advanced preferences of Firefox, you need to type the about:config address in the address bar and navigate to it. If you want to continue anyway in order to improve the performance of Firefox on your PC, then follow these steps.
