Firefox 57 Quantum: Why is it so fast?

A Mozilla developer revealed one of the hidden techniques used by Firefox 57, also known as Quantum, to improve page loading times.

Mozilla has already announced a number of architectural changes to the , which seem to have paid off with improvements in speed and performance.Firefox 57

But Firefox 57 has another secret that it uses to achieve faster page load: it delays scripts from monitoring domains, such as www.google-analytics.com.

This technique was developed by the engineer of Mozilla Honza Bambas, who calls it “Tailing”. It works by delaying tracking and tracking scripts by opening a page, offering better load times.

The feature is not intended to improve privacy, although it relies on by Firefox's privacy protection feature Tracking Protection.

Cutting or to say better, the delay of these scrips simply prevents them from loading, and does not completely disable them.

So we can say, that the best performance in loading a page is achieved by changing the priority given by in each page's location and tracking requests.

“Requests remain pending while there are other requests from the page still loading and only for about 6 seconds. The delay only applies to bundles (scripts) that are added dynamically or as async. Tracking images are always delayed. But it is legal according to all HTML specifications, and it is assumed that well-constructed sites will not be affected in their functionality, "says Bambas.

This technique seems to work well, although in some cases it shows a blank page for a few seconds, instead of gradually loading the page. Bambas refers to her page Page-Hiding Snippet which uses as an example where this can happen.

However, as he points out “his intention tailing is to help with performance by delaying something that is not supposed to be visible. "

In addition to all the above, Firefox also runs the project that will display all HTTP pages as unsafe.

Currently it displays warnings on HTTP pages that manage login or financial data.

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