Mozilla firefox 51: lighter, flac support and password management

Mozilla Firefox 51, the new version of one of the best Internet browsers, is already among us. Now lighter than ever, with FLAC support and improved password management.

What's New in Firefox 51

Lighter: One of the eternal promises of Mozilla is that Firefox is a browser that consumes less and less resources from our team. In previous versions they have tried to correct the memory consumption and now they also take a look at the CPU consumption, which should require fewer cycles of our processor during navigation. Video playback has also been fine-tuned for those systems without GPU acceleration and an improvement in full-screen execution.

Support for FLAC: The lossless audio format FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) now has native support in Mozilla Firefox 51. An important addition for those lovers of music in high definition.

WebGL 2: Firefox 51 also gets support for WebGL 2 with advanced graphics rendering features like improved texturing capabilities. The objective of WebGL 2 is to improve the display and execution of 3D content in the Firefox browser.

Battery Time: Mozilla now limits the precision of the “Battery Time” function to avoid tracking over the network using our battery data. A notification system was also added for when we try to log in to pages that do not use

Better password management: Finally, improvements have been implemented in the ways in which passwords are managed, allowing us to see them before saving them or adding the possibility of being able to save them in forms that do not have a submit button, this saves time.

Finally, an indicator has been added in the address bar to see the level of zoom that it has at that time, support for 360-degree videos has been improved, SHA-1 certificates have been permanently blocked for being insecure, and in Linux will now use the Skia 2D graphics library for rendering web content.