Mozilla Firefox's latest version

 

Mozilla Firefox 7.0.1

On September 29, 2011, Mozilla Firefox released version 7.0.1 of their web browser where I upgraded that very same day. Version 6 had certain problems such as with the memory usage but in 7.0.1, it has been reduced to as much as 50% which is a huge improvement in terms of the broswer's speed as well as stability. I have been very happy about this improvement because I am guilty of always keeping many tabs open at once and for leaving the browser open a while.

Other changes in version 7 include upgraded support for web sockets, support for Navigation Timing spec, several repairs in stability issues as well as bug fixes and a new opt-in tool for users who send anonymous performace data to Mozilla.

The Updated WebSocket protocol support was disabled in previous versions of Firefox due to security reasons but this latest version has version 8 of WebSocket. It is great for high-latency mobile networks that have high connection set-up costs because WebSocket will provide a better experience with polling HTTP. Navigation Timing spec is excellent for web page authors because this will allow them to monitor many parts of web page performance in just the page itself. The new browser version also eliminates the "http://" URL prefex shown in the address bar by default in order for a more cleaner view of the URL. I do not know about you but I prefer to see "http://" in there rather than just for secure prefixes such as "https." To me, the complete URL should always be in the browser's address bar where it includes the URL prefix. Unlike previous versions, Firefox 7 supports the ellipsis mode for a property called the "text-overflow property." It is basically used incase any text content overflows its given layout area. Lastly, the latest version has expanded support for MathML which will make web developers extremely happy. It is a certain application of a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form called XML that describes mathematical notations.

I have been a Mozzila Firefox user since version 2.0 and always used it as my primary web browser compared to Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc. I love Mozilla Firefox a lot and I enjoy it even more now that version 7 does not use as much memory.