14 DAY TRIAL // There’s a lot happening in the browser world this week, and after Microsoft announced that it’s embracing the Chromium engine, here comes Mozilla with an announcement of its own.
The Firefox maker says it’s working on a browser for Windows 10 on ARM, Microsoft’s very own platform that uses Snapdragon chips to bring the power of Windows 10 with major improvements in terms of battery life.
Mozilla says it’s optimizing the browser to take advantage of the latest Qualcomm chips, and each tab would run as a dedicated process on each core.
“Mozilla is excited to be collaborating with Qualcomm and optimizing Firefox for the Snapdragon compute platform with a native ARM64 version of Firefox that takes full advantage of the capabilities of the Snapdragon compute platform and gives users the most performant out of the box experience possible,” the company said in its announcement.
“We can’t wait to see Firefox delivering blazing fast experiences for the always on, always connected, multi-core Snapdragon compute platform with Windows 10.”
Google also working on Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM
While details on when this browser could land on Windows 10 on ARM devices, Mozilla isn’t the only one working on a project in this regard.
“We investigated what kinds of hardware people had and built a solution that took best advantage of processors with multiple cores, which also makes Firefox a great browser for Snapdragon,” Mozilla explains.
Google is also collaborating with Microsoft on bringing Chrome to Windows 10 on ARM, and this is particularly important for the future of the platform, as Google’s browser is now leading this software category on the desktop.
In the meantime, with Microsoft efforts on switching from EdgeHTML to Chromium, the variety of browsers available on Windows 10 on ARM is likely to increase substantially, finally addressing the gap versus the PC world.