Mozilla Release Firefox 7 Uses Less Memory

Mozilla Firefox has released its new version Firefox 7 that only six weeks after the Firefox 6 brings several significant speed increases, making it worth the upgrade.

Firefox 7 seems that 50% reduction in the use of memory, which is good news for those who often have many tabs open or to leave Firefox running for a long time

The memory footprint is part of the ongoing efforts to reduce the memory usage of Mozilla Firefox to reduce. This is the first release to benefit from the project MemShrink, as they say. Those who follow the channels of the night or Aurora knows there are other improvements on their way in Firefox memory 8 and 9.

Web developers will be pleased to know that Firefox 7 web connections will be re-enabled. Firefox Internet socket support in previous versions, but it was shut down due to safety concerns. Now the web connections back support and Firefox 7 has been updated to the newer web design protocol sockets fit. If you develop a web application that uses Internet sockets and you want to support Firefox, use the-moz prefix in your code.

More good news for web developers support Firefox 7 Timing specification for navigation, which measure the performance page in the page itself, and a number of performance improvements that speed up the animations in the HTML5 Canvas tag.

Firefox also stops 7 websites resize your main window. If you have done those things (seriously, not) keep in mind that, as 7 of Firefox, you can not size a window or a tab that was not created by the window.open, and you can not size a window or When the tab in a window with multiple tabs.

If you are concerned about this last break your add-ons, quiet, there is a very good chance that it is not. Mozilla is much closer to a better add-on system upgrade for the pain that people who depend on the will illuminate. Mozilla is already automatic update compatibility add-ons on his own site. Modules downloaded from the Internet are a different story, but at least for the hosts, which reports that the passage of Mozilla Firefox will affect only 7.6 percent.