Mozilla today released a new Firefox Aurora release: As Firefox 6 is moved into beta, Firefox 7 is beginning to take shape and will deliver substantial performance improvements across the board.
As much as Firefox 5 was a letdown to some Firefox users (it was actually a pretty successful release for Mozilla), the next two releases of the browser will carry much of the innovation and enthusiasm Mozilla was founded upon. Firefox 7 is confirmed to receive substantial memory leak fixes as well as a much better garbage collector that releases unused memory more effectively.
There is also a new Sync feature that syncs passwords and bookmarks instantly, improved font rendering, an integrated telemetry feature to help Mozilla improve the performance in future Firefox versions, as well as added support for CSS3 text overflow.
Perhaps most importantly, Firefox 7 will ship with the new Azure 2D graphics API, the basis of Firefox graphics performance. Azure dramatically improved the graphics performance especially in Canvas 2D HTML5 scenarios (see benchmark results here.)
Wolfgang Gruener in Products on July 07
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