Firefox 7.0 released

By David Hartsock / 09/27/2011 / 4 Comments / Browser

Continuing with their enhanced development cycle Mozilla has released version 7.0 of their popular Firefox web browser.
The changelog show the following improvements:

Drastically improved memory use

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

Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis

Added support for the Web Timing specification

Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox. This can be enabled by installing an add-on

Fixed several stability issues

Those who know me know that I’m a huge fan of the Firefox browser and the thousands of extensions available. Many complain about the memory usage of Firefox. This release directly addresses the memory issue and should provide a small speed increase. I’ve never experienced any memory related issues with Firefox and maybe this release will provide some relief for those who think the memory issue is a big deal.

The Firefox site hasn’t been updated with a link to the 7.0 download yet, however I expect this to happen soon. Windows users can find the download here in the interm.

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4 thoughts on “Firefox 7.0 released”

Jim Hillier
09/27/2011 at 9:46 pm

I’ve changed over to Pale Moon. FF finally got the better of me, slow rendering and stalled page loading regular occurrences. Nothing more frustrating than a page loading 98% then hanging.

Been using Pale Moon only two days but already notice a distinct improvement. I’m not a complete traitor because Pale Moon is FF based and supports all extensions and themes. Best of both worlds really. 🙂
VOXPOP
09/30/2011 at 5:54 pm

i wonder if firefox v7 has fixed the problem i have..when i click on a link the page won’t open unless i COPY the link and paste it in the browser..this just started a week ago and it’s really annoying. i’m using v6
mizdoc
10/01/2011 at 11:52 am

Half of my addons don’t work with FF 7 so I’ve gone back to FF 6.
I guess by the time FF 8 is ready, they’ll have fixed 7 so that my addons work. This is the way it seems to go.
Dave Hartsock
10/03/2011 at 4:25 am

Good news for Firefox extensions – http://blog.fligtar.com/2011/09/26/add-on-compatibility-progress-plans/

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