Mozilla: Firefox 57 and WebAssembly
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Quantum-ized Firefox 57 Ready For Download
Firefox 57.0 is being officially released this week and its stable download is now available.
Firefox 57 is arguably the biggest update ever with pulling in the Project Quantum work, at least the initial pieces of it. Firefox 57/Quantum is twice as fast as Firefox from 2016 with better multi-threading, the Rust-written CSS engine, and other components pulled in from Servo. Mozilla is referring to Firefox 57 as "Firefox Quantum" for branding.
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WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers
While Mozilla has been preparing to launch Firefox Quantum, its fastest browser yet, some notable developments have happened with WebAssembly, the binary file format (“wasm”) that works with JavaScript to run web applications at near-native speeds.
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Firefox 57 Brings Better Sandboxing on Linux
Firefox 57, set to be released tomorrow, will ship with improvements to the browser's sandbox security feature for Linux users.
The Firefox sandboxing feature isolates the browser from the operating system in a way to prevent web attacks from using a vulnerability in the browser engine and its legitimate functions to attack the underlying operating system, place malware on the filesystem, or steal local files.
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