What is new in Firefox 7?
- Reduced memory consumption. Mozilla’s MemShring project doubles Firefox’s startup speed.
- New rendering backend to speed up HTML5 canvas operations on Windows
- Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync feature.
- Support for CSS3 text-overflow: ellipsis (additional way for developers to display CSS 3 text that overflows the layout area).
- Support for the Web Timing specification: Enables developers to measure page load time and site navigation.
- An opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox.
- In addition, this new release fixes several stability issues. Firefox 7 is currently not available on the official homepage, but expected to be available on next day. However, Mozilla’s FTP servers are already listing Firefox 7 for all supported operating systems and languages. Before installing Firefox 7, reading this article may useful to you.
