Mozilla Firefox 7 has been released. The new release fixes some stability issues and several bug fixes. Mozilla Firefox 7 available to Download for Linux, MAC OS X, and Microsoft windows. Also available to install on Ubuntu “Natty, Oneiric” using PPA.
According to Mozilla blog post that firefox 7 and upcoming releases will significantly reduce the memory usage by 50% less than earlier versions of firefox, better performance for handling HTML 5 animations, and it will become much better environment for developers, Firefox 7 supports W3C navigation timing spec API will help developer to easily measure the page load time, optimize websites, and web apps.
Here’s a Benchmark “Firefox 7 is lean and fast“ for Firefox 7 vs older version Firefox 6 and development version Firefox 8.
What’s New In Mozilla Firefox 7 “Changelog”
- 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
Download Mozilla Firefox 7
Mozilla Firefox 7 available for Linux, MAC OS X, Microsoft Windows operating systems and with different languages Here.Sources :
www.mozilla.org
www.linuxnov.com
