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There are more macOS battery life improvements coming in Firefox 70 in around six weeks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20864255 https://news.ycombinator.

• sciurus 7y ago
  For some measurements: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522#c45 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522#c45
• jillesvangurp 7y ago
  I just got 70b3 via the beta channel and the difference is notable when using gmail and google drive. They load faster and there's a bit less latency when you click something in the UI. I can't tell you if this completely closes the gap as I don't really use other browsers. But it definitely improved a bit. Two big changes related to performance: - the baseline javascript interpreter is now enabled (this is probably responsible for improving things for Google related stuff). - they optimized a few things with the compositor for mac to further reduce battery usage. I'm guessing this might include some of the work that has been done to port parts of the browser to rust. Upcoming versions should at some point include the webrender changes that are currently available to some windows users already. If you are wondering, the beta channel is generally rock solid for me. You end up restarting the browser a bit more often to get the latest beta and obviously they are still finding and fixing bugs. But I can't remember the last time Firefox crashed on me. I've been on the beta channel for close to two years. By the time features land to the beta channel, they've been on nightly for some time already. So, that generally means all the obvious stuff has been resolved already.