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Firefox 70 to reduce power usage on macOS by up to three times

If you love Firefox, you’ll like this.

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 70 will reduce power consumption on macOS by up to three times.

According to Mozilla engineer Henrik Skupkin, Firefox developers have made a breakthrough, fixing the web browser’s power consumption on macOS.

Skupin said that a current fix for the battery drain issue has been deployed on Firefox Nightly, where it managed to reduce power usage by three times. The fix is expected to land in the stable version of Firefox in late October 2019, with the release of Firefox 70.

Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.

Via The Mac Observer and ZDNet