[gkoberger]

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

[jolan]

Here's the official release notes:

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

[jimktrains2]

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

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

[bbrizzi]

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

[Dobbs]

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.

[ck2]

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

[starwed]

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?

[ck2]

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

[starwed]

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...)

[notatoad]

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

[gkoberger]

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

[jisaacstone]

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