Mozilla releases Firefox version 7.0 to reduce 50% memory usage

Tencent Technology News (China Tao) Beijing time September 28, according to foreign media reports, Firefox (Firefox) browser developers Mozilla Tuesday released the Firefox 7.0 version. One of the biggest improvements to the latest version of Firefox is enhanced memory management, which can reduce Firefox's use of user-machine memory and improve the overall speed of Firefox.

Mozilla said earlier that it would speed up the pace of Firefox's update by releasing a performance-stable upgraded version about every six weeks. Firefox version 6.0 was released in mid-August this year. At that time, a large number of Firefox "fans" said that the new version of Firefox, the update is too fast and appears to "have no practical significance."

Mozilla Tuesday said that compared to previous versions, Firefox 7.0 performance has mainly the following improvements and enhancements:

Improved memory processing, so that the Firefox 7.0 version of the user's machine memory usage than the original version of the reduction 20%~30%, the maximum can be reduced by 50%.

If the user turns on the data synchronization feature, the bookmark and password synchronization functions take effect immediately.

"http://" in the Web site has been automatically hidden in Firefox version 7.0 (Google Chrome has also taken this approach)

The WebSocket protocol was updated from original version 7 to version 8.

Fixed several security and stability issues.

Increased user options for providing feedback to the Firefox technology development team. This feature is not turned on by default, and if users want to provide Firefox 7 performance and other related data, you need to check in the settings to open this feature.

In addition to the release of desktop Firefox version 7.0, Mozilla has launched a mobile version of Firefox 7.0 for Google's Android phone. Compared to previous versions, the Android version of Firefox 7 has also made several improvements, including the choice of text content in Web pages for copying, pasting, and so on.