Mozilla managed to turn Firefox fanboys into Google Chrome lovers with Firefox 4, 5 and 6. However, it seems that Mozilla is a quick learner and they simply can’t afford to lose their market share. Mozilla release Firefox 7 few hours ago which promises significant performance improvements. Mozilla claims that the engineers have worked on reducing the memory usage and managed to get it down to 50%, compared to earlier versions. Quoting from the press release, Firefox 7 offers -
- Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
- Added a new rendering back-end 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
Firefox 7 - Download It Today!
If you’re using Firefox 6.0.2, Firefox will automatically download the latest update. The update will be installed when you restart your Firefox browser. Those who want to give FF another try, can download it from following link – Mozilla Firefox 7 Download. Do share your reviews with us through comments. Are you staying with Firefox or going back to Google Chrome?
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