FireFox 7 Final is out ahead of time!

[Berryracer]

As usual, MajorGeeks brings us the final version of the latest FireFox 1 or 2 days before the release date announced by Mozilla!

Awesome!

|MG| Mozilla Firefox 7.0 Final Download

FTP Site of Mozilla Direct Download

 

[Scouzer]

That's because it doesn't change anything

 

[gevorg]

I left Firefox for Chrome mainly because of memory issues. Will give FF another chance, they have more diverse extension selection.

 

[pcslookout]

As usual, MajorGeeks brings us the final version of the latest FireFox 1 or 2 days before the release date announced by Mozilla!

Awesome!

|MG| Mozilla Firefox 7.0 Final Download

FTP Site of Mozilla Direct Download

Thanks. Can't wait until Firefox 8 and 9 final! Going to rock! Noscript ftw!

 

[lxskllr]

That's because it doesn't change anything

The number's clearly 17% bigger. That's a significant change by any measure.

 

[Berryracer]

I left Firefox for Chrome mainly because of memory issues. Will give FF another chance, they have more diverse extension selection.

The main focus of Mozilla with FF7 was to enhance its memory management.

Give it a shot bro

 

[trollolo]

i never have FF using more than like 300MB, no idea where all these complaints are coming from

 

[Fayd]

The number's clearly 17% bigger. That's a significant change by any measure.

...thanks.... really helpful.

 

[dualsmp]

Memory management is a little better. Seems to save around 75-100MB for me, it still uses between 200-300MB though. Better than nothing I suppose.

 

[Ultralight]

Memory management is a little better. Seems to save around 75-100MB for me, it still uses between 200-300MB though. Better than nothing I suppose.

Are you experiencing any freezing/hanging/loading of web pages? I still experience this with the latest 6.xxx version.

 

[dualsmp]

Are you experiencing any freezing/hanging/loading of web pages? I still experience this with the latest 6.xxx version.

No, but I turned off GPU acceleration since I noticed GPU rendering used more power than letting the processor do the work at least in my case. The fonts seemed a bit wonky with GPU rendering as well. I still think GPU rendering has some problems still, so you might try disabling it if you haven't yet to see if it clears things up.

 

[Fayd]

Memory management is a little better. Seems to save around 75-100MB for me, it still uses between 200-300MB though. Better than nothing I suppose.

best i can tell is for me memory usage is mostly caused by plugins. i have 2 computers, both with the same startup and active logins, but different plugins. the computer running 7.0 beta channel has 7 active extensions, the computer running 6.02 release channel has only 4. the computer running 6.02 uses 117 mb at firefox start, the computer running 7.0 uses 180 mb at firefox start.

so any improvements made in memory management between 6.02 and 7.0 are drastically overshadowed by the memory usage of the extensions.

 

[yinan]

Anyone able to get this Thinapped? I was having a really hard time getting 6 to work Thinapped on Win7 x64.

 

[corkyg]

Downloaded and installed FF7. Looked good, and at the outset, performed well. Later, I found that my Roboform was not compatible. Maybe someday. So, I uninstalled 7 and put 6.0.2 back in and all is well. Sometimes early releases can be a problem. Maybe next week Siber will update Roboform 7.X.

 

[Ultralight]

No, but I turned off GPU acceleration since I noticed GPU rendering used more power than letting the processor do the work at least in my case. The fonts seemed a bit wonky with GPU rendering as well. I still think GPU rendering has some problems still, so you might try disabling it if you haven't yet to see if it clears things up.

Please pardon my ignorance but how does one go about reducing GPU acceleration and if I do this does it affect anything else I may do on my PC such as watching video, gaming, etc.? Thanks.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I just updated today and it feels faster and I did a comparison and it does use less ram. I will be testing it on more systems soon...

 

[VirtualLarry]

now available from www.mozilla.com

 

[bruceb]

Did the upgrade just now. It says Java Console 6.0.2.6 is not compatible with Firefox 7 and it would seem to be the case. Clicked on it in Tools and it does not come up. I suppose that does not affect have Java itself actually works. Can that Java Console come out ? ? ?

 

[dualsmp]

Please pardon my ignorance but how does one go about reducing GPU acceleration and if I do this does it affect anything else I may do on my PC such as watching video, gaming, etc.? Thanks.

It's under Options->Advanced->General tab->Use hardware acceleration when available.

Uncheck to disable GPU acceleration.

 

[heynow85]

Just upgraded.

One way you can easily test the memory optimizations is to go into a high-res screenshot thread with many 1080p images on a single webpage.

Open up your task manager and notice how the memory usage inflates as images are being loaded in. Then, close that webpage and watch it shrink down again.

Previously, it seems that Firefox wouldn't do this.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I've got two issues so far.

1) When I click the FF icon in my taskbar, I get an identical FF icon that pops up NEXT to it INSTEAD of the pinned icon turning on.
2) When I visit certain sites, a Facebook plugin opens another tab? WTF?

 

[jhansman]

I'm all for better memory usage, but until I know all my extensions run under it, I'll stay with 6.02. I still prefer FF to every other browser I've yet used.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

for #1, try upinning the current one, opening FF and then pinning it again.

dunno about #2, that is crazy!

I've got two issues so far.

1) When I click the FF icon in my taskbar, I get an identical FF icon that pops up NEXT to it INSTEAD of the pinned icon turning on.
2) When I visit certain sites, a Facebook plugin opens another tab? WTF?

 

[RU482]

Hmmm.

I open Chrome to Yahoo.com
I go to device manager, and get 6 instances of chrome.exe, using a total of about 90MB

I open Firefox 7 to Yahoo.com
I go to device manager, and get 1 instance of firefox.exe using 51MB


What the hell is going on with chrome??

 

[jobz]

Chrome runs each tab in a separate process, so when a tab crashes, by flash mostly, it doesn't bring down the whole browser.

Firefox has something similar. It runs extensions in a separate process, namely plugin-container.exe.