Firefox 7

[James Johnson]

Firefox 7 is out. Time to update your firefox web browser.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/22/windows/internet/browser/new-features-in-firefox-7.html

Firefox developers used Memshrink technology for the first time in the new beta. And the use of this technology brought a dramatic change with remarkable lower memory usage. According to Mozilla developer Nicholas Bethercote, Firefox 7 uses less memory comparing to the last three versions. When we used the beta version, we also noticed that Firefox 7 can cut memory usage by about fifty percent. You won’t notice any big memory usage if you keep using Firefox overnight and you will be able to free up memory by closing tabs which was not possible earlier.

 

[Chris Butcher]

Already? Damn they are churning out the new versions fast.

Perhaps they should concentrate on actually testing things rather than rushing releases.

 

[James Johnson]

Chris they already have Firefox 8/9 and 10 in different testing phases (Nightly 10, Aurora 9, Beta 8, FF7)

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases#Firefox_8