Firefox now runs natively on the Apple Silicon architecture. Version 84 available since yesterday launches 2.5 times faster and web apps are twice as responsive on M1 Macs than the Intel binary via Rosetta, according to Mozilla.
The installation of Rosetta nevertheless remains indispensable for now if you want to play DRM protected content, like videos on Netflix or Disney +.
Firefox 84 also introduced on macOS Big Sur WebRender, a rendering engine component that allows you to take advantage of graphics acceleration to speed up page display. Moreover, it is the last version capable of handling Flash.
It’s not quite finished yet, but Firefox is on track to finally support VoiceOver, the screen reader built into macOS essential for people with visual impairments. The publisher encourages users to test this feature present in the Firefox 85 beta and share their feedback with him.
Finally, Mozilla expressed its support on supervision of advertising monitoring planned in iOS 14 by launching a petition so that this action is taken as soon as possible. Apple originally planned to apply it as soon as iOS 14 was released before pushing it back to early 2021 in front of the crowd of advertisers.
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