Thanks for the update. 

Thanks for this, Doc.

Now I just need FF to realise there's a new version and update.

Wow, what an idiotic change... thanks Dr!

Wow I haven't used Firefox 7 for at least a month.

Erm, not sure how you've achieved that but, alrighty then.

Thanks Doc and the continually growing stupidity of supposedly smart companies that "know what we want and what's best for us" continues to astound me.  That this is a big part of the open source community makes it all the sadder.

It's like if Linux decided to include security risks as part of a new version "for our benefit".

Welcome, all. 

Update:

Thunderbird 7 has been released as well, and in the future, FF and Thunderbird will be close together...

Things could get worse, apparently. From Download.com:

"Mozilla also is moving Firefox toward a silent update process in which people don't have to take actions to move to new versions of the browser as they do today.

"We formed a team / had our first meeting last week to focus on silent updates, and it is definitely a top priority," Mozilla's Robert Strong said in a message. An update will require user action in cases where the new version isn't compatible with an existing add-on, he said. One of the complications of the idea is bypassing operating system warnings such as Windows' User Account Control that pop up asking if users really want to install software."

I sure hope if they're planning on doing silent updates, they remember to test the release thoroughly.  Nothing worse than getting a browser update that you don't know about, that goes all pear-shaped and has to be removed.

Gee, I'm not impressed by many decisions the Mozilla Firefox team has made recently.  Even including the too-frequent use of new version numbers for minor releases.

Best regards,
Steven.

I do not mind the silent update, This is the way Chrome updates and I personally like it

The update brings a much slimmer memory footprint courtesy of Mozilla's MemShrink project. The new release also includes some improvements to hardware-accelerated rendering on Windows, support for the W3C navigation timing specification, and an opt-in system for collecting performance data.

Firefox has historically been a very memory-intensive browser, but Mozilla has pursued several successful campaigns over the years to keep the RAM gluttony in check. One of the most noteworthy memory reduction crusades in Firefox's history took place during the 3.0 development cycle. The impressive result was that Firefox 3.0 scored better than any other mainstream browser at the time in memory-consumption benchmarks. Mozilla has recently renewed its focus on memory reduction with an aggressive optimization project called MemShrink.

According to some statistics published in the Mozilla Hacks blog, the MemShrink effort and other improvements have led to a 20 to 50 percent reduction in overall memory consumption under certain conditions. The improvement is absolutely noticeable during intensive browsing on my old Mac Pro, which only has 5GB of RAM. The result is considerably less swapping and modestly better performance under heavy load.

I'm really pissed at this version of firefox. They've fiddled with the algorithm to detect broken stuff you put in the adress bar, and it keeps bugging out. If I put an adress in the adress bar and press enter, I expect the browser to show me the adress. Not do a fucking google search on it, and let me know if it finds it or not. It's such a useless feature, because the adress can exist even if shitty google can't find it. So instead of the browser taking me to a working adress, it takes me to a google search telling me it doesn't exist. It practically locks me out of the adress, since there's no way to bypass this stupid, stupid, idiotic feature.

Uninstalled.

To turn it off

In the location bar  type about:config

search for keyword.enabled and set it to false

Update available: FF 7.01. Fixes bug. You can read the article here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/412396 .