Monday, July 11, 2011

Firefox 7 pre-release with reduced memory footprint lands in Aurora channel

Mozilla recently transitioned to shorter development cycles for Firefox, with the aim of issuing a new release every six weeks. Firefox 5 arrived last month with a number of minor user-facing changes. The next update, version 6, reached beta status last week and is expected to launch on August 16.

Still, the development effort on Firefox 7 is already underway and Mozilla has started rolling out builds for testing in the Aurora channel. Due to the new faster-paced release management strategy, Mozilla is doing aggressive pre-release testing of multiple versions in parallel. We took a quick hands-on look at the new builds to see the new functionality in action.

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