You’ll be pleased to know that Mozilla at present release Firefox 7, a main latest update. Ignoring the compulsory housework, under-the-hood tweaks, optimizations and bug fixes, Firefox 7 drastically reduces memory ingesting done its notorious predecessors which have always been assessed for memory leakage problems. This, has chiefly been a pain in you-know-what on Mac OS X.

However, in relation to Mozilla, a non-profit group behind Firefox, a MemShrink plan used in the browser decreases memory use by 20 to 50%. Accordingly, the browser boots quicker, and your Mac will have freer RAM when scanning over dozens of web sites in Firefox 7 and there’s a lower probability of crashing. A Mozilla representative said last week:

 Among the Firefox 7 changes are some amazing memory improvements. When this makes it to users in just under 6 weeks, Mozilla will re-take the memory efficiency crown and give our users the highly responsive Firefox they deserve.

Extra bonuses drew in Mozilla’s blog post contain an better hardware-accelerated Canvas treatment which offloads HTML5 animations to your graphics card, creation games such as Angry Birds or Runfield run smoother. Firefox 7 furthermore chains W3C’s navigation timing spec, permitting developers to test their page’s load speed remotely. Mozilla also announced the Android mobile version of Firefox which now comprises copy and paste.

Firefox 7 is obtainable in more than 70 languages on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux as well. Grab your copy over at the Firefox download page or wait for the auto-updated mechanism to kick in and prompt you to update your existing Firefox 6 installation. Changelog is after the break.

Below you can see main changes:

• Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
• 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
• The ‘http://’ URL prefix is now hidden by default
• Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
• Added support for the Web Timing specification
• Enhanced support for MathML
• The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
• Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
• Fixed several stability issues
• Fixed several security issues

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Via: 9to5 Mac