Tablets are getting a new Firefox for Android look.
(Credit: Mozilla)
A plethora of changes land in Firefox for Android 15 beta, as its desktop counterpart moves its memory management improvements up a notch.
Firefox 15 beta for Windows (download), Mac (download), and Linux (download), brings the memory management improvements developed in Mozilla's MemShrink project one step closer to the stable version of the browser, this time focusing on long browser sessions and how add-ons affect Firefox. Nicholas Nethercote, a developer at Mozilla, wrote on his blog that Firefox 15 beta is likely to be "drastically" faster than Firefox 14, in some cases.
The changes in the beta focus on memory leaks, which Nethercote describes as occurring when a program allocates some of your computer's memory to use, but then fails to release it when finished with its task. He wrote back in January 2012 that memory leaks in add-ons, from the most popular Firefox add-ons to the simplest one... [Read more]
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