Firefox Updated With Native Support for M1 Macs, Mozilla Touts 'Dramatic Performance Improvements'

Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting "dramatic performance improvements" over the previous, unoptimized version of the web browser.


Specifically, Firefox now launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive, according to Mozilla.

If you are using a Mac with the M1 chip, Mozilla says you will need to fully exit and restart Firefox after upgrading to Firefox 84 in order for the web browser to run natively on Apple Silicon architecture, promising not only faster performance but better battery life.

Firefox 84 is the final version to support Adobe Flash.

Tags: Mozilla, Firefox, M1

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