Topic: Firefox 7 will use 50% less memory than "older" versions

[Samker]

Earlier this year, Mozilla decided to take a new and interesting approach to developing its Firefox web browser. Instead of waiting several months or even a year between versions, we are now seeing major new versions of the Firefox browser being released within weeks of each other. Indeed Firefox 6 is currently scheduled for release sometime this week. But Mozilla's creators are already working on the following version, Firefox 7.

In a blog post written by Nicholas Nethercote, one of Mozilla's programmers, he claims that Firefox 7 will have a solution that many users of the web browser will be happy to hear. He says, "Firefox 7 uses less memory than Firefox 6 (and 5 and 4): often 20 (percent) to 30 (percent) less, and sometimes as much as 50 {percent) less. In particular, Firefox 7′s memory usage will stay steady if you leave it running overnight, and it will free up more memory when you close many tabs": http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-lean-and-fast-2/

That's a massive improvement over Firefox 6 which technically hasn't even been officially released. Nethercote points out, "This means that Firefox 7 is faster (sometimes drastically so) and less likely to crash, particularly if you have many websites open at once and/or keep Firefox running for a long time between restarts." He credits the improvements in part to MemShink, a new effort by Mozllla designed specifically to decrease Firefox's memory usage and this may just be just the beginning. He says, "... development versions of Firefox 8 already have even better memory usage, and I expect we’ll continue to make further improvements as time goes on."

(NW)

[Brian]

That is great news! Looking forward to the new release. Hopefully this should clear up some RAM on my PC. I'm running Firefox 6 Beta right now.

[Fintech]

Is anyone tried it yet.. even any beta? Is any beta-version even released yet? 

[jheysen]

It's in aurora, so googling we should be able to get it (or looking arround Mozilla's FTP...  )

[Samker]

Is anyone tried it yet.. even any beta? Is any beta-version even released yet? 

I think that you have all future versions, including 6 & 7, here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/

[Fintech]

Thanx a lot @Samker 

[Samker]

Thanx a lot @Samker 

You Welcome pal. 

Don't forget to provide us your review after you test FF version 7...

cya around,

S.

[Fintech]

I'm not yet tried it, I use still version 6 really better than version 6.2 now! 

I will let you know if I try Aurora's!

[Samker]

I'm not yet tried it, I use still version 6 really better than version 6.2 now!  

I will let you know if I try Aurora's!

Ok pal.

by the way, I'm also using FF 6 but for some reason I have problem with some memory lags last days... I'm really angry right now!  




P.S.

Congrats pal on your 100. post... now, you're officially SCF's Advanced Member.  

 

[Fintech]

Really. .FF behaves from me also sometimes peculiarly!