Firefox 7, another major update to the most popular and widely used Web Browser. In the last few months Mozilla has significantly accelerated the Firefox major version releases , it was only 6 months ago when Firefox 4 was released and as of today Mozilla is all set to release Firefox 7 which brings significant changes and updates than the earlier versions of Firefox. Mozilla announced a week earlier on their blog that Firefox 7 was scheduled to release on September 27th 2011 which comes true as in a few hours the Firefox 7 will be available for download from the Official Mozilla Firefox Page, but you can download the latest firefox release now from their FTP Servers.
Firefox 7 brings significant changes with major performance improvements, UI tweaks and support for newer technologies. Mozilla team has been working hard to optimize, improve firefox browser making it 20-30% better than before and the latest Firefox 7 fixes the problem of huge memory consumption which was a major concern in the earlier Firefox versions, the improvement in memory consumption can be as much as 30% on regular use and 50% in some extreme cases.
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Whats New in Firefox 7.0
Firefox 7 delivers an enhanced and vastly improved browsing experience as we notice some of the biggest improvements in this latest release.
Substantial memory usage improvements:
Memory usage improvement is one of the most focused update in Firefox 7. In past few releases this has been a major problem for Firefox users but not anymore. Mozilla worked on some new ways to fix pluggin leaks and improve memory usage, upto 30% memory usage improvement is noticed on regular browser usage which is a remarkably better.
No more ‘http’ and the trailing slash in the address bar:
To communicate the website address more clearly Firefox 7 will not display the “http://” protocol preceding the site URL and will also remove the trailing slash from the address bar. To make the site URL easily readable the domain name will be highlighted in black and the remaining URL of the page will be faded displayed in gray. Note that the secured pages are excluded from this update and will display “https://” as before. The concept was originally introduced in Chrome Browser.
Hardware acceleration for HTML5 Canvas on Windows:
Firefox 7 introduces a new backend animation rendering to speed up canvas operations for users running firefox on Windows. Firefox 7 uses hardware acceleration via Direct2D for these HTML5 animations. Windows users will notice a great improvement in canvas rendering.
Instant Firefox Sync:
Firefox Sync performance is improved on Firefox 7. The new bookmarks and passwords are immediately syced with the Mozilla servers. The new bookmarks or passwords are instantly available across your various devices or laptop.
Telemetry addon to help make firefox better:
The new telemetry addon in Firefox 7 lets users to participate in making firefox better, the addon will send anonymized memory usage statistics and browser performance behaviour so that Mozilla team can identify and work on problems.
Firefox 7 brings major changes as compared to earlier final versions. Feels much faster and lighter. Let us know how you feel about the new Firefox 7 via comments below.
Tushar Agarwal is a technology enthusiast and a tech blogger from Dehradun,India. He has a passion for Computer, Gadgets and Internet technology and has been keeping himself updated with the same since 2001.
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I wish it can offer a good performance. I have been a Firefox fan but the recent updates have made it slower and bulky. I wonder if my i3 is not enough to run internet on my computer. It gives trouble when I open multiple tabs.
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