Mozilla Firefox 7 has been released. The new release fixes some stability issues and several bug fixes. Mozilla Firefox 7 available to Download for Linux, MAC OS X, and Microsoft windows. Also available to install on Ubuntu “Natty, Oneiric” using PPA.
According to Mozilla blog post that firefox 7 and upcoming releases will significantly reduce the memory usage by 50% less than earlier versions of firefox, better performance for handling HTML 5 animations, and it will become much better environment for developers, Firefox 7 supports W3C navigation timing spec API will help developer to easily measure the page load time, optimize websites, and web apps.
Here’s a Benchmark “Firefox 7 is lean and fast“ for Firefox 7 vs older version Firefox 6 and development version Firefox 8.
What’s New In Mozilla Firefox 7 “Changelog”
- Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
- Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
- Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
- The ‘http://’ URL prefix is now hidden by default
- Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
- Added support for the Web Timing specification
- Enhanced support for MathML
- The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
- Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
Download Mozilla Firefox 7
Mozilla Firefox 7 available for Linux, MAC OS X, Microsoft Windows operating systems and with different languages Here.
Install Mozilla Firefox 7 On Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
Firefox will be updated to the last stable release after updating official Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 repositories.
Install Firefox 7 on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal using Mozilla security team.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox
Install Firefox 7 On Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat
Run Terminal, then type
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox
sources
Mozilla Firefox Significantly Reduces Memory Use to Make Web Browsing Faster
Mozilla Firefox 7 Release Notes
Post updated
What, nothing for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS? Boo!
Just install ubuntu-tweak. They have the stable mozilla ppa there, and will alow you to activate it and update firefox and thunderbird to the most current version. They also have the daily build channel.
Post has been updated with PPA installation repository for Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10.
i activated mozilla ppa from ubuntu-tweak but always no upgrade to firefox 7
Post has been updated.
This didn’t work for me
Ubuntu 11.04 64bit.
Post updated: Mozilla Security PPA added for install Firefox 7 on Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Please be patient! till the building process over.
This worked great for me (11.04)…Thanks!
You are welcome. I am glad it worked fine for you.
Hihelpful}. Keep on posting!