Firefox 15 with the latest Gecko 15 engine has been released about an hour ago. For those who are puzzled with this rapid 13, 14, or version 15 of Firefox, it is because Mozilla had decided to version number the Firefox after the Gecko engine that powers it.
Firefox 15 promises better memory (RAM) management with extensions, and over the next few days, we will see a lot of hoo and haw about it. Over the first runs, Firefox 15 does ‘feel’ a little better - to the eyes - and seems to load faster.
Mozilla have fixed a lot of security bugs with this version and so it is imperative we update it.
A big difference is in the way Firefox updates from now on. Till now, we have had to keep watching the stupid update ‘About Firefox’ if you update manually, or a slight freezing with auto updates and a reminder to ‘restart’ if you wish to retain the updated version.
With Firefox 15 that irritant should be gone. Firefox from version 15 will update in the background, replacing the files and will open up with the new updated version, the next time we run it - the so called ‘silent-background’ update.
They were supposed to add basic, preliminary native PDF viewer/support, (like Google Chrome) but I haven’t tested it yet.
Coming back to memory, it still uses up a whopping ~134 MB on my PC’s RAM. So there it is - Mozilla Firefox 15.
Firefox 15 promises better memory (RAM) management with extensions, and over the next few days, we will see a lot of hoo and haw about it. Over the first runs, Firefox 15 does ‘feel’ a little better - to the eyes - and seems to load faster.
Mozilla have fixed a lot of security bugs with this version and so it is imperative we update it.
A big difference is in the way Firefox updates from now on. Till now, we have had to keep watching the stupid update ‘About Firefox’ if you update manually, or a slight freezing with auto updates and a reminder to ‘restart’ if you wish to retain the updated version.
With Firefox 15 that irritant should be gone. Firefox from version 15 will update in the background, replacing the files and will open up with the new updated version, the next time we run it - the so called ‘silent-background’ update.
They were supposed to add basic, preliminary native PDF viewer/support, (like Google Chrome) but I haven’t tested it yet.
Coming back to memory, it still uses up a whopping ~134 MB on my PC’s RAM. So there it is - Mozilla Firefox 15.
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