Although Firefox 6 was released just last month, Mozilla has been working hard on the next major update, and today marks its official public release. Firefox 7 brings memory and engine improvements to make it faster and more reliable than ever, improving memory handling to use 50% less memory when addressing memory leaks, crashes, and general instability when multiple tabs are open.

Changes in the new version of the browser include a 20% speed increase from Firefox 5, improving the behavior and start-up times of tab groups in Panorama, highlighted domain names in the address bar, and other bug fixes and improvements. Another new feature meant strictly for web developers is the new “Web Developer” menu in Firefox 6 that provides these developers with easy access to tools to help them build and debug their web site directly from within the browser.

Users who are running OS X Lion have been experiencing crashing issues with Firefox 5 when loading a web page that uses downloadable fonts. Mozilla, the team behind the browser, has stated that a minor update (build 5.0.1) is on the way in order to fix the crashing issue before Lion makes its way into the hands of the public this month.

After a few months of testing, Mozilla has officially released the new version of their popular web browser. Firefox 5 introduces over a thousand new features and enhancements, such as improved sync support, improved updating for add-ons, increases in both speed and performance, the addition of a “do not track” option within the privacy settings, improved spell checking with support for many languages, and improved support for HTML5, MathML, XHR, and CSS animation.

There’s a new player the the browser wars, and it’s Google.

Google announced on the company blog today that they will be launching the beta of “Google Chrome” tomorrow morning for Windows, with versions for the Mac and Linux set to roll out in the coming weeks.

This certainly won’t ease tensions in Google’s “Cold War” with Microsoft, as now the folks in Redmond will have another innovate product to “compete” with.

Details after the break.

With the recent release of Firefox 3, Safari finally is seeing some serious competition in the browser space. Its reign as the fastest browser on the Mac seems to be over for the time being, and Firefox’s usage share continues to climb both on the Mac and on Windows.

Now, this isn’t to say I don’t like Safari; in fact, I use it as my everyday browser. It’s just that the competition is finally really heating up, and it’s about time Apple made some improvements to set Safari apart once again.

See what I think Safari should to to pull ahead of the competition again after the break.

We’ve all heard about how good the iPhone SDK is, but what about the downsides. Some major developers have been wanting to create apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch, but Firefox, Java and apps that run in the background may not be allowed. These highly valued apps may not be allowed to Apple’s Published more »

Of course, not all of us are fortunate enough to use a Mac. And for those that don’t – the best free email client is definitely Thunderbird. From the creators of Firefox, the award-winning multi-platform browser, Thunderbird is a very powerful e-mail client and works just as well as Firefox does. Best of all, it more »

At last Monday’s WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs surprisingly released the Safari 3 beta to not only Mac users, but Windows users as well, in an attempt to increase the amount of Safari users in total on both platforms. In the presentation however, John Lily, of Mozilla, noticed that Steve basically indicated that he plans to more »