Mozilla Foundation Releases Firefox 7

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has released Firefox 7.0. It hasn't actually reduced my memory footprint at first glance, but let's hope that the memory usage doesn't keep growing like it used to. We'll also see if it crashes less often than once every three days or so." The initial memory use of Firefox should remain similar to previous releases, but at least the heap shouldn't grow infinitely as it does in previous releases.

Re:Wait!

[hedwards]

Firefox 6? that's so last Thursday.

Re:Licensing changes

[ZankerH]

You do realise trolling is supposed to waste other people's time, right?

Re:Fail

[pLnCrZy]

There is a much better [oppugn.us] programming methodology...

Re:microsoft had it right

[Grishnakh]

That is why people are annoyed at Mozilla. Because the change makes no goddamned sense.

It does make sense. Back in the bad old days when they were going 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, etc., it showed that they weren't improving very fast. Now that they're jumping ahead (4, 5, 6, now 7), it shows they're improving rapidly, and will soon be almost as good as IE (9) and Opera (11).

Opera goes up to 11, and Firefox needs to work hard to make their browser go up to 11 too. It'd be even better if Firefox went all the way up to 12. That would completely blow away IE and Opera. Just think how cool that'll be. When you see someone using IE9 (or 10, if it's up to that by then), you can tell them "You should switch to Firefox. It goes up to 12!!"