Slackware-Based Zenwalk Linux Gets New ISO Snapshot with GTK3 Build of Firefox

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The development team behind the Slackware-based Zenwalk GNU/Linux distribution have announced the release and general availability of a new ISO snapshot image with all the latest software versions and some exciting new features.

The biggest new feature of the Zenwalk Current ISO 220217 release is the reimplementation of the GTK3 build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, which ships with multithreading enabled by default. “This build of Firefox starts and react nearly as fast as Chromium, and with many tabs opened, scales much better in terms of responsiveness and memory footprint,” explained the devs in the release notes.

Please note that Mozilla Firefox 52.0 Beta 7 is included in this ISO snapshot. Moreover, the Zenwalk Current ISO 220217 image comes with significant performance improvements for video playback, as it updates the FFmpeg and MPV packages to versions… (read more)
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