Apple’s first laptops and desktop with the custom M1 CPU inside have already proven to be quite powerful and efficient, but they are at their best with software updated to run natively on the new hardware. Now Firefox is joining Chrome by generally releasing an update that can take advantage of Apple Silicon.
According to Mozilla support, all you need to do is restart your browser and see it update to version 84. If you somehow don’t have the Rosetta package installed for backward compatibility, do that too, because it is required for streaming content from DRM-like services such as Netflix, Hulu, Disney + or Amazon Prime Video. Based on their benchmarking with the SpeedoMeter 2.0 test, the browser starts “over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive”.