Comment by gkoberger | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gkoberger | Hacker News Reader

Desktop highlights:

* 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://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/09/27/mozilla-firefox-sign...

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Android highlights:

* Android-style Copy & Paste

* Ability to quit

* Use Firefox in your language

* WebSocket API

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/09/27/firefox-for-android-...

[Edit] Updated the list of highlights

Here's the official release notes:

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/7.0/releasenotes/

>* The 'http:// URL prefix is now hidden by default

I hate that:( I hate that they removed the rss button too:(

As said in the other thread, you can change it back by going to about:confing and changing browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.

RSS urlbar icon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-icon/

That's weird -- the icon is still there, but not default, and it just takes about two clicks to restore it.

So what's the purpose of the addon?

You mean the icon in customize? You cannot put that one inside the urlbar.

Aha, all is now clear. (I really liked the idea of the RSS button when they added it, but never actually ended up using it...)

It is not in the url bar but you can right click on the toolbar select customize and then drag a rss button back onto the toolbar.

websocket protocol bump to v8? isn't v10 the one with the security issues fixed?

Version 8 is the same thing as Draft 10, which is the latest draft. Yes, it's confusing.

Man I never knew about text-overflow: ellipsis. I'm gonna have to start using that.

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