Firefox update kicks graphics speed up a notch
Found on CNet News on Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Speed is of the essence in Mozilla's recovery plan, and Firefox 58 does better than its predecessor in some graphics tasks by splitting work better across the multiple processor cores that computer chips have these days.
Firefox 58 can get WebAssembly software running faster so you don't have to twiddle your thumbs waiting as long after clicking a link.
Sweet, random bytecode from random websites gets executed in your browser. Yes, Javascript is locally executed code too, but the world had its experiences with ActiveX, Java and Flash.