Light, formerly known as Firefox Light, is a

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based on

Firefox Mozilla Firefox, or simply Firefox, is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages, which implements current and ...

. Light is available for the

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and

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s. It differs from Firefox by being built for performance, which it achieves by removing several of Firefox's built in components, including the crash reporter, safe browsing,

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, and support for various types of video and audio

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