Firefox 7 out and ready for download

Just downloaded it today but Firefox 7 has been out for a couple of days now and claims it uses much less memory (50%) compared to FF4.

It was only last month that we saw an update to Firefox 6 and six weeks later, FF7 is already out. That’s fast.

I earlier said that at this pace, we might see FF8 by December. Now it looks like Mozilla wants to hit FF10 before end of the year.

LifeHacker posted some benchmark results between FF, IE, Opera and Chrome. In the memory test, FF and Opera got the top scores.

Overall scores showed Opera leading the pack, followed by Firefox:
Opera 11.51: 82%
Firefox 7: 73%
Internet Explorer 9: 47.5%
Chrome 14: 43%

Just go to www.firefox.com get the download.

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

9 Comments

jayofarty says:

14 years ago

What’s the rush? or bug fix maybe?
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Edz says:

14 years ago

already did.
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jlapitan says:

14 years ago

be part of the community

http://www.mozillaphilippines.org/

let us help make the future of the web better
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Allen Cerezo says:

14 years ago

Recently downloaded this one for Windows. I never thought that this was released just today?
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ebarrun says:

14 years ago

this is the rapid release cycle of Mozilla products including Firefox, now with improved memory usage, FF7 was released September 27. to know more about future releases you can check it out here.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases
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samsung says:

14 years ago

I am using this right now the firefox 6 always rape my memory usage but now it’s smooth sailing again cheers to firefox 7.
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jamesJ says:

14 years ago

ftw firefox
in firefox okay loading yugatech but sa chrome naghang?
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Benchmark says:

14 years ago

I hope this doesn’t hang anymore unlike my previous FF6…anyway even if it hangs alot, still I prefer FF :)
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Tristan says:

14 years ago

I just updated my FF the other day and I would say that it’s more stable than FF6! Nice move FF!
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