Developers from Mozilla announced about the publication of official binary deb packages and installation tar archives that allow you to install nightly builds of Firefox in Linux distributions on systems with ARM64 architecture (AArch64). Packages can be obtained through traditional download page, and from a specialized APT repository created for Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-like distributions. After the implementation of automated testing of ARM64 assemblies in the continuous integration system is completed, it is planned to begin publishing similar assemblies for beta versions and releases.
Additionally, you can note a few changesrecently offered in Firefox nightly builds:
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- Opportunity Defining your own color themes for Reader View. Enabled via the reader.colors_menu.enabled parameter in about:config.
- Optimization mozjemalloc memory allocation system, which reduced the number of VirtualAlloc calls. The Speedometer 2 and Speedometer 3 tests show a 3.5-5% speedup after enabling the new code, while maintaining memory consumption at the same level.
- Included support for Search Config V2 format for changing search engine settings.
- Start time abbreviated by at least 3%.
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