Mozilla has released Firefox 7.0 to all users on September 27th, 2011. New stuff in Firefox 7:
- 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://ā 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
Firefox 6.0.x user can get the update via Help > About Firefox or download it directly here. The next major release will be in another six-weeks on November 8, 2025 with Firefox 8.0 which will be pushed out to the Beta channel later this week.