Speaking of garbage collection, as we successfully reduced the cost of this operation, we are able to execute it more often.The browser can now free memory more efficiently when a tab is closed or after a garbage collection.

To reduce the negative impact of this fragmentation, long-lived objects created by the browser’s own UI have been separated from the objects created by Web pages. The memory “zone” where javascript objects reside gets fragmented as objects are created and deleted.Our continuous efforts to monitor and reduce memory consumption in Firefox will substantially pay off with Aurora 7: To help Web developers monitor efficiently the performance of their Web pages, Aurora 7 implements the Navigation Timing specification: using the object, developers will be able to know the time when different navigation steps (such as navigationStart, connectStart/ End, responseStart/ End, domLoading/ Complete) happened and deduce how long one step or a sequence of steps took to complete. Performance is a key parameter of the user experience on the Web. It is now possible to get Firefox to display “ …” to give a visual clue that a text is longer than the element containing it.Īt last, with text-overflow implemented in Aurora 7 it’s now possible to create a cross-browser ellipsis! Navigation Timing Enjoy its new features and performance improvements: CSS “ text-overflow: ellipsis“, Navigation Timing API, reduced memory usage, a faster javascript parser, and the first steps of Azure, our new graphics API.

Keeping up the pace with our new development cycle, today we release Aurora 7.

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