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Firefox 7 Comes With Improved Memory With the wide release of Firefox 7, Mozilla introduces new features for reducing memory use upto 20-30 percent, or even upto 50 percent. This memory utilization was resulted from an internal Mozilla project named as MemShrink, which was responsible for reducing the memory usage. This project works on the browser and reduces its system impact on the computer memory, thereby reducing the memory usage to a considerable amount. Many other areas in Firefox 7 were also specified and taken into concern, where the memory space usage could be reduced. These areas include: When the browser is kept open for long periods of time, when the browser is used concurrently with other programs and when multiple tabs are open at once. These are areas where memory is consumed without any necessity and can be avoided. Therefore, if the memory consumption could be reduced in these areas, it would save up to 50 percent of computer memory required for running Firefox 7. The Mozilla users are prompted to choose Telemetry (an anonymous reporting measure), when they install Firefox 7 on their computers. This tool helps Mozilla in finding out how the Mozilla browser acts or performs in real time. Unlike the security suites that also use similar reporting measures for detecting virus threats, Telemetry only implies when you permit it or opt for it. At present, the Telemetry in Firefox 7 analyses four categories namely: cycle collection times, CPU core count, memory usage, and start-up speed. Other inclusions in Firefox 7 consist of a new version of hardware-accelerated Canvas used for faster HTML5 applications. Apart from this, there are many more things added on with Firefox 7, such as: ability to select text in a Web page for copying and pasting in Androids, a new Quit feature for immediate exiting the browser, a new Preferences option for changing the language displayed in the browser on-demand, and many more. |
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