Mozilla Firefox 7.0 Beta 1

Firefox has released a beta version 7 and Mozilla can be downloaded for Windows , Mac, and Linux. Android version was also released separately.

Firefox Beta 7 is the first to use Memshrink, a program that can cut the memory usage of Firefox.

“Firefox 7 takes up much less memory than Firefox version 6 or earlier.Memory usage can be reduced by 20-30% and sometimes 50%,” said Nicholas Nethercote, who worked on the program Memshrink for Mozilla.

He also added, Firefox 7 also remained stable despite working all night,and the fewer the number of tabs opened, then use less memory as well.

Changelog :

- Drastically improved memory use
- 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
- Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
- Added support for the Web Timing specification
- Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox. This can be enabled by installing an add-on
- Fixed several stability issues