Mozilla has recently released the beta of Firefox 7, the first to have Memshrink that can reduce Firefox’s memory usage in almost half the usual.
The Firefox 7 Beta for Linux, Mac and Windows is now available for download. For those who are already using the Firefox beta, their browsers will be updated automatically. A separate beta version of Firefox is also released by Mozilla for Android.
Firefox 7 is officially scheduled to be released on September 27, according to the Wiki page of Mozilla. Fisher Capital Management notes that Firefox 6 brought very little noticeable changes, from the vantage point of end users as the big changes in the interface happened in version 4.
Memory use has always been a negative side-effect of the Firefox browser, so this revision in the new beta might be welcomed by many users.
On August 9, Nicholas Nethercote, who has been on the Memshrink project for Mozilla wrote, “Firefox 7 uses less memory compared to Firefox 6 (and versions 5 and 4) – most of the time 20-30% less but sometimes as great as 50%. Firefox 7′s memory usage in particular will stay stable even if left running overnight and it can free up even more memory as tabs are closed.”
As an added feature, the beta for version 7 decreases memory usage and improves the overall performance, which includes startup, page load time, web apps and responsiveness,Fisher Capital Management said. As an added help to the developers in optimizing their code, a web timing specification is there to measure page-loading times. Another telemetry plugin also lets developers report performance data to Firefox.
This new version also expects to speed up the time for Firefox Sync, a feature that synchronizes data among various Mozilla browsers.
More under-the-hood additions include the Canvas Azure Direct2D and further improvements in the way the browser manages CSS 3 text overflows.
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