Some recent versions of the Firefox browser have been rather “boring” in terms of Linux, with few noticeable changes, but Mozilla Firefox version 105.0 was released this morning, and this time the changes are more significant. The new version offers better performance for Linux users, especially when experiencing system memory pressure/low memory.
There have been some Linux performance improvements in place since the release of Firefox 105.0 Beta, with the official release notes stating that “Firefox is less likely to run out of memory on Linux, and several times performs better for the rest of the system in low memory situations”.
Firefox 105 on Windows can also produce better performance when dealing with system memory pressure, and “Firefox itself will be more likely to survive a brief memory drain, even if individual tabs crash”.
Firefox 105 also improves its print preview dialog, offers an option to print only the current page, supports TextDecoderStream as part of the encoding API, supports defining persistent scripts with a “script” interface, and various other changes.
