New Firefox Aurora 7.0a2 - reduced memory consumption, improved performance and a little bit of detail
A new version of Firefox Aurora 7.0a2 has arrived . And with such changes that it is impossible not to tell about them.
The first, and, in my opinion, the most important thing is to reduce memory consumption by 30% or more , improve responsiveness and speed up startup. They removed the leaks in the JS engine, still conjured, and got this magical result.
Just the other day, for the sake of FF, I upgraded my laptop from 2 + 1 Gb of memory to 2 + 2 Gb. Because eclipse eats out ~ 700mb stably, FF 5.0.2 eats away from 0.7 to 1.2Gb (it could have been more, but I restarted it to help him “clear his soul”). And if you run VirtualBox as well, it was generally possible to drain the water.
Now FF within a few hours fits in 500Mb. T.ch. 30% may be true. Although there is one nuance - all extensions fell off, and they could affect memory. But as I recall from the experiments, the effects seemed to be small.
Of the other improvements:
text-overflow: ellipsis; - FF now knows how to trim text by delivering "..." at the end, as if hinting that it is longer than it might seem. Hooray hooray.
Speeding up the JS parser is a trifle, but nice.
Navigation Timing - you can detect how much time it took for a particular user action on a page (such as navigationStart, connectStart / End, responseStart / End, domLoading / Complete). Potential statistics on the speed of the site at the client.
There are changes in the DOM - non-standard methods and properties for File, such as getAsBinary, FileSize, etc. are removed.
In the address bar, the prefix “http: //” is no longer displayed. Not familiar, but logical.
Firefox Sync now instantly updates bookmarks and passwords.
If you already use FF Aurora - within a day or two you will receive an offer to upgrade. If not, but if you want, switch the channel in Windows, add PPA in Ubuntu , and the channel seems to be on Mac.
Update2. Thanks lafayette :Firebug 1.8b5 runs on 7.0. Just install the Add-on Compatibility Reporter plugin.
Update3. Thanks Yakof :
One of the most visually noticeable changes in the seventh version is rendering small fonts, including the system one for Win7 Segoi UI using GDI Classic instead of DirectWite. So, goodbye blurry fonts!
In order for this to work correctly, about: config in the value of the gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families parameter should list the fonts for which GDI Classic will be used (Arial, Consolas, Courier New, Microsoft Sans Serif, Segoe UI, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, Verdana by default), and the parameter gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size indicate the font size to which Direct Write is disabled (default is 15).
The second noticeable update is the inclusion of the new Azure graphics processing engine, which gives a really serious increase in graphics tests (although this only works in Win Vista and 7). You can check, for example, at the same SpeedReading - my fox confidently bypasses even IE, under which these tests were actually sharpened
In ubunt, I did not notice any changes in the fonts associated with rendering. I'm happy for the winery.
