nsane.forums Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Two days after Mozilla delivered Firefox 6 to its wide-release stable channel, Firefox 7 and its much-anticipated spate of better memory management and reduced load times got promoted from the developer's Aurora build to the Beta channel. You can download Firefox 7 Beta for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The performance improvements are the first major performance changes for Firefox after a summer of complaints from a small yet vocal minority that was experiencing severe memory leaks and crashes. The company is anticipating around a 30 percent gain in performance that derives from changes to the JavaScript garbage collector, implementing Azure Direct2D for Canvas, and adding developer support for a Web timing specification and a CSS3 Text-Overflow option. Password and bookmark changes and additions made in Firefox Sync will synchronize faster, too, according to Mozilla. If you wish to contribute performance data on Firefox to Mozilla, there's a new add-on called Telemetry (download from Mozilla add-on site) that chips in your experiences to Firefox developers. Many of the same changes made in the desktop version have been made to the Firefox Beta for Android. These include the optimized memory use, restoring session history and tabs, changes to Firefox Sync, copy and paste from mobile Web sites, and enhanced language detection for localization. For people who don't like some of Firefox's recent changes to the address bar, I just discovered that there are two new entries in the about:config menu. In Firefox 7 and above, you can force the page's protocol to always be displayed by changing browser.urlbar.trimURLs to False. In Firefox 6 and above, you can disable domain name highlighting by changing browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to False, too. If Mozilla sticks to the current release schedule, Firefox 7 will reach the stable channel and thus the majority of Firefox users on September 27. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leland Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Now these are the sorts of changes I have been waiting for in Firefox. Too bad we have had to wait so long for them...Leland:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deyani Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 Thank you mozilla that you finally fix that blurry text when hardware acceleration is enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demoneye Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 its about time firefox team will pay attention (haha) to improve FF speed :D10x for the hot news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted August 19, 2011 Administrator Share Posted August 19, 2011 Sorry for the timing, but there is a chance that Azure will be implemented in Firefox 7.0 but not enabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HX1 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 What is Azure? exactly I have heard several things called this in the past.. Plus I have noticed with the 9.0a1 Nightly faster startup and running.. loading of pages.. I didn't notice it as much in 8... but 9 seems to be a little snappy.. got to get the new profile worked out though.. tried copying version 4 over to it with the same results I had in 8 after Forcing compatibility.. major problems.. :P but before that really great... I have to do some cleaning I have profiles spread out from 3-9 now.. each one with little changes and differences I have to collate and put in one stack so to speak.. work just keeps coming.. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katanga Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 9.0a1 Nightly works like a charme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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