Version 7 of the popular web browser Firefox and the desktop mail client Thunderbird was released yesterday. Both of them come with minor but notable changes.
What's new in Firefox 7
http://www.tuxgarage.com/2011/08/firefox-6-stable-released-linux-ubuntu.html
- Drastically improved memory handling for certain use cases
- Added a new rendering backend to speed up Canvas operations on Windows systems
- Bookmark and password changes now sync almost instantly when using Firefox Sync
- The 'http://' URL prefix is now hidden by default
- Added support for text-overflow: ellipsis
- Added support for the Web Timing specification
- Enhanced support for MathML
- The WebSocket protocol has been updated from version 7 to version 8
- Added an opt-in system for users to send performance data back to Mozilla to improve future versions of Firefox
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
http://www.tuxgarage.com/2011/08/firefox-6-stable-released-linux-ubuntu.html
- Thunderbird is based on the new Mozilla Gecko 7 engine
- Several user interface fixes and improvements
- Several fixes to attachment handling
- Ability to print a summary of selected email messages
- Platform improvements to Address Book
- Fixed several security issues
- Numerous platform fixes that improve speed, performance and stability
http://www.tuxgarage.com/2011/08/thunderbird-6-stable-released-ubuntu.html