Firefox 7.0 Final is now available for download

Firefox 7.0 Final is now officially available for download. The latest and new Firefox 7.0 drastically improves the usage of memory (RAM). This release has also contains several new features, bug fixes and stability improvements over the previous version as listed in the "What's new in Firefox 7.0 Final" section.

Overview
Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser and a number of additional features that work with you to help you get the most out of your time online.

Firefox 7.0 drastically improves the usage of memory (RAM) and is said to consume 20-30% less memory than previous version. This release has also added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems, In Firefox 7.0 the bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync, and the 'http://' URL prefix is now hidden by default.

How to download Firefox 7.0 Final:
You can download Firefox 7.0 Final from web site listed below:
Firefox 7.0 Final

What's new in Firefox 7.0 Final
Firefox 7.0 Final contains several new features, bugs fixes and stability improvements including:
  • 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.
Security Fixes
  • MFSA 2011-45 Inferring Keystrokes from motion data. [Moderate]
  • MFSA 2011-44 Use after free reading OGG headers. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-43 loadSubScript unwraps XPCNativeWrapper scope parameter. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-42 Potentially exploitable crash in the YARR regular expression library. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-41 Potentially exploitable WebGL crashes. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-40 Code installation through holding down Enter. [Critical]
  • MFSA 2011-39 Defense against multiple Location headers due to CRLF Injection. [Moderate]
  • MFSA 2011-36 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:7.0 / rv:1.9.2.23) [Critical]

The full list of changes that are in Firefox 7.0 Final is available in the Firefox 7.0 Bug Fixes.

Source: Firefox 7.0 Final Release Notes.

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