- [#5498](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/5498) [`287fe6782`](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/287fe6782825479513e79a5cf0ba0fbfe51443d7) - Fixes: slider bar are too thin on FireFox. Thanks [@pngwn](https://github.com/pngwn)!
- [#6149](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/6149) [`90318b1dd`](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/90318b1dd118ae08a695a50e7c556226234ab6dc) - swap `mode` on the frontned to `interactive` to match the backend. Thanks [@pngwn](https://github.com/pngwn)!
- [#5984](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/5984) [`66549d8d2`](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/66549d8d256b1845c8c5efa0384695b36cb46eab) - Fixes: slider bar are too thin on FireFox. Thanks [@dawoodkhan82](https://github.com/dawoodkhan82)!
- [#5535](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/5535) [`d29b1ab74`](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/d29b1ab740784d8c70f9ab7bc38bbbf7dd3ff737) - Makes sliders consistent across all browsers. Thanks [@dawoodkhan82](https://github.com/dawoodkhan82)!
#### Improve startup performance and markdown support ([#5279](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/5279) [`fe057300`](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/fe057300f0672c62dab9d9b4501054ac5d45a4ec))
##### Improved markdown support
We now have better support for markdown in `gr.Markdown` and `gr.Dataframe`. Including syntax highlighting and Github Flavoured Markdown. We also have more consistent markdown behaviour and styling.
##### Various performance improvements
These improvements will be particularly beneficial to large applications.
- Rather than attaching events manually, they are now delegated, leading to a significant performance improvement and addressing a performance regression introduced in a recent version of Gradio. App startup for large applications is now around twice as fast.
- Optimised the mounting of individual components, leading to a modest performance improvement during startup (~30%).
- Corrected an issue that was causing markdown to re-render infinitely.
- Ensured that the `gr.3DModel` does re-render prematurely.
- [#5215](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/pull/5215) [`fbdad78a`](https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio/commit/fbdad78af4c47454cbb570f88cc14bf4479bbceb) - Lazy load interactive or static variants of a component individually, rather than loading both variants regardless. This change will improve performance for many applications. Thanks [@pngwn](https://github.com/pngwn)!