{"id":23,"date":"2011-09-28T17:38:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T17:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-12-05T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:41:58","slug":"firefox-7-impresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/archives\/23","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 7 impresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 7 came out with a few promising improvements earlier today for both the regular users and web developers. Here&#8217;s a few which hit the spot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Third party ads can no longer re-size your main browser window.<\/li>\n<li>The RAM gluttony has been significantly reduced. Especially apparent on my 2004 version 1GB Dell Inspiron laptop. Crashes are less too ( Happy days for the compulsive Farmville player). The lag issue remains though &#8211; multiple tabs left open for a while makes switching between them a drag.<\/li>\n<li>For web developers &#8211; at long last we have the support for: <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/CSS\/text-overflow\" target=\"_blank\">text-overflow:ellipsis;<\/a> One of the rare aspects where IE was ahead of FF. Follow the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Firefox_7_for_developers\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> to read more on developer changes.<\/li>\n<li>The canvas elements look decidedly snappier &#8211; the graphics look nifty, a touch inspired by MAC iPhoto, if you ask me.<\/li>\n<li>There are other new features like Websockets now enabled by default on mobile, for two-way communications with a remote host for HTTP &#8211; I know little about those but there&#8217;s Google \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While I&#8217;m not sure if it warrants a new version &#8230; there&#8217;s definitely a clutch of performance enhancements and additional features. For a little while some of the browser add-ons might remain incompatible but it&#8217;s mostly big-ups for the MemShrink team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 7 came out with a few promising improvements earlier today for both the regular users and web developers. Here&#8217;s a few which hit the spot: Third party ads can no longer re-size your main browser window. The RAM gluttony has been significantly reduced. Especially apparent on my 2004 version 1GB Dell Inspiron laptop. Crashes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,11,19,12],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-browser-war","tag-firefox","tag-firefox-v-chrome","tag-google-chrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deepanjandatta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}