{"id":34960,"date":"2011-09-29T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T10:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=34960"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:26:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T10:26:03","slug":"firefox-7-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/34960-firefox-7-released.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 7 released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Summary<\/span>: Firefox 7 was launched recently, promising better memory management for an improved browsing experience.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mozilla Foundation\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342687-Mozilla-Foundation\">Mozilla<\/a> recently announced the release an <a title=\"Mozilla Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/mozilla-firefox-significantly-reduces-memory-use-to-make-web-browsing-faster\/\" target=\"_blank\">update for its Firefox web browser<\/a> for Windows, Mac, and Linux that promises better memory management for a \u201cnimble web browsing experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Mozilla, <a title=\"Mozilla Firefox\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/220755-Firefox\">Firefox<\/a> 7:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is faster at opening new tabs, clicking on menu items, and buttons on websites.<\/li>\n<li>Will perform better when lots of tabs are open.<\/li>\n<li>Will perform better during long browsing sessions of hours and days.<\/li>\n<li>Has a new version of hardware-accelerated HTML5 Canvas.<\/li>\n<li>Supports the W3C navigation timing spec API.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mozilla said that the W3C navigation timing spec API offers developers the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Measure page load time and website navigation against bandwidth speed, website traffic, and other factors.<\/li>\n<li>Test user experiences remotely.<\/li>\n<li>Optimise websites and Web apps for different types of users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the time of writing Firefox\u2019s update manager didn\u2019t detect the upgrade to Firefox 7, but it could still be downloaded directly from <a title=\"Mozilla Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mozilla\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Promises to reduce memory use to make browsing faster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":34966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[1391,35,975,4930],"class_list":["post-34960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","category-software","tag-firefox-7","tag-headline","tag-mozilla","tag-mozilla-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34962,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34960\/revisions\/34962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}