

The browser has a long and eventful history, including moving from a proprietary engine (Presto) to the industry’s most popular engine, Chromium.

The Opera browser of the Norwegian company Opera Software is the most ancient in comparison with all browsers in the seven most popular browsers in the world (except Microsoft Explorer). By the way, for Firefox 83.0, those who tried this browser on the M1 MacBook Air had no complaints about performance, and its 2.5 times increase did indeed take place.ĭownload Mozilla Firefox for Mac Should you use Opera on Mac Compared to Firefox 83.0, which required Rosetta 2 services on the M1 Mac, Firefox 84.0 has improved performance two and a half times… Web applications have doubled their responsiveness (based on the SpeedoMeter 2.0 benchmark). The first release of Firefox with Apple Silicon support, Firefox 84.0, became available for download on December 15, 2020.

Mozilla Firefox is not only alive, but also quite good for itself Built-in Firefox Extension Library huge – albeit more modest than Google Chrome. Several years ago, it seemed that its history was coming to an end, but in recent years it has been actively and often updated, interesting innovations have appeared in it, especially in the field of protecting users’ personal data. But the user has access to the industry’s largest library of extensions, and it’s almost impossible to come across a web application that can’t work with Google Chrome.ĭownload Google Chrome for M1 Pros of Mozilla Firefox on Macįirefox is one of the oldest browsers, the first version of which was released on September 23, 2002, three months before the first version of Safari.

Google has not fixed all the flaws – Chrome still applies to the security of personal data. Chrome 87 for M1 differs dramatically from Google Chrome for Intel. According to Google, Chrome 87 five times more efficient takes advantage of the M1’s CPU, drains laptop batteries more slowly, starts up 25% faster, and loads web pages 7% faster. Judging by the fact that Google released Chrome 87 for the M1 in November 2020, some DTK (Mac mini with Apple A12Z inside for developers) went to it.
