Catalin Cimpanu, reporting for BleepingComputer: Mozilla is currently testing a new feature called “Tab Warming” that engineers hope will improve the tab switching process. According to a description of the feature, Tab Warming will watch the user’s mouse cursor and start “painting” content inside a tab whenever the user hovers his mouse over one. Firefox will do this on the assumption the user wants to click and switch to view that tab and will want to keep a pre-rendered tab on hand if this occurs. “Those precious milliseconds are used to do the rendering and uploading, so that when the click event finally comes, the [tab] is ready and waiting for you,” said Mike Conley, one of the Firefox engineers who worked on this feature.

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