Tuesday, November 8th 2011
Mozilla Firefox 8 Released
You know what, we won't even go through the drill of expressing surprise that a new major version of Firefox is released on a nearly-monthly basis. Mozilla released Firefox 8.0, about 7 months after it released Firefox 4.0. And they look similar, except that the new one looks more polished. Granted, drastic UI changes can hit users' learning curve and preferences. The new UI sports essentially the same layout as its predecessors since version 4.0, but the elements look designed better, fused into the theme. It's the under-the-hood changes that are counting. Mozilla would never pack so many background changes to the monthly updates of Firefox 3.DOWNLOAD: Mozilla Firefox 8.0
With this release, Mozilla Firefox has the following changes over the previous generation:
With this release, Mozilla Firefox has the following changes over the previous generation:
- Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
- Added a one-time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
- Added Twitter to the search bar for select locales. Additional locale support will be added in the future
- Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored
- Improved performance and memory handling when using audio and video elements
- Added CORS support for cross-domain textures in WebGL
- Added support for HTML5 context menus
- Added support for insertAdjacentHTML
- Improved CSS hyphen support for many languages
- Improved WebSocket support
- Fixed several stability issues
- Fixed several security issues
45 Comments on Mozilla Firefox 8 Released
Hint to all these new UI's coming out
Buttons have Edges's not only so you can tell where they are, but also because it looks better
i42.photobucket.com/albums/e316/blibba/Untitled-7.jpg Agreed. New Gmail looks amateurish.
Everyone is still trying for a good compromise between overly ostentatious and overly minimalistic. One of these days they may find it ... or not.
does anyone know of a plug-in that does this but actually looks natural, i've seen a couple but they look like crap.
See?
I use RoboForm and it constantly breaks because of this. good thing I dont use addons anymore or I would really be annoyed
The only, and ONLY thing i have ever found a good use of firefox for are its plugins, like ones for downloading multiple files links, like 40+ at once.
Otherwise chrome is much faster, and IE doesn't have any issues with certain sites.
I cant stand a bad gui. Every time I look around, programs and websites I use are changing their gui and making it awful. :banghead: