Available | Download Mozilla Firefox 7 for 70 Languages

A new version number for a browser release may not be quite as major as it used to be, but Mozilla is promising a few fairly big improvements with the just-released Firefox 7.

The biggest of those are all in the performance department, including "significantly" reduced memory usage (up to 50 percent less in some cases), and a new version of the hardware-accelerated Canvas that promises to speed up HTML5 sites.

Also making its debut is a new Telemetry feature that lets users anonymously provide browser performance data to Mozilla if they choose to opt-in.



The Firefox 7 has the following changes:

1. Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
2. Added a new rendering backend to speed up
3. Canvas operations on Windows systems
4. Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
5. The 'http://' URL prefix is now hidden by default
6. Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
7. Added support for the Web Timing specification
8. Enhanced support for MathML
9. The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
10. Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
11. Fixed several stability issues
12. Fixed several security issues

Download Mozilla Firefox 7 for 70 Languages

Source: Mozilla