Have you been eagerly awaiting a new version of Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser? You are in luck! Mozilla has released Firefox 7 today and has promised reduced memory usage with the new browser.
Firefox 7 is reportedly using 20 to 30% less memory than before! Firefox 7 also has faster sync of passwords and bookmarks between different sessions of the browser. We also see a faster rendering of HTML5 canvas-based animations on Windows, and a new optional add-on that sends Mozilla performance data.
So what else new in Firefox 7?
- Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
- Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
- Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
- The ‘http://’ URL prefix is now hidden by default
- Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
- Added support for the Web Timing specification
- Enhanced support for MathML
- The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
- Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
