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Firefox Releases Optimized Browser for Apple M1 Chip

Firefox is joining Chrome by releasing an update of their browser that can take advantage of Apple M1 chip.

Taken from Engadget … Apple’s first laptops and desktop with its custom M1 CPU inside have already proven to be quite powerful and efficient, but they’re at their best with software updated to run natively on the new hardware. Now Firefox is joining Chrome by generally releasing an update that can take advantage of Apple Silicon.

According to Mozilla support, all you should have to do is restart your browser and you’ll see it update to version 84. If you somehow haven’t installed the Rosetta package for backward compatibility, do that as well, as it’s necessary for streaming content from DRM’d services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video. Based on their benchmarking with the SpeedoMeter 2.0 test, the browser “launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive.”

Source: Engadget

 

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