In a rather delayed post, Firefox 7 has now been released, wooo! The release comes just six weeks (yes you read that correctly) after Firefox 6 arrived. The two major selling points of this release are speed (as ever!) and the memory demand has been reduced by half, which is quite impressive.
Over the past few releases, I have noticed that Firefox has become a bit of a pig for the amount of memory it uses. Why that is I'm not sure, but anything like this is always a welcome boost.
For web developers, the news gets better. Navigation timing spec will benchmark your pages which I'm all in favour of as this is something that I've always tried to run to get the best out of the user experience. More good news comes from the people that make Firefox who claim that this release will be less likely to break your addons. There is better support for compatibility with your older addons that were download from their own site, however bits from elsewhere may not work as well.
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