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
EDIT: uhm never mind....reinsalled Scripts and it's fine....something just didn't go right with the upgrade...
Even Bta couldn't help getting a little snarky in his OP. :laugh:
I think this time I'll wait a good week before updating :laugh:
This seems to be more of a Windows issue though, because if I play around with various Aero effects in Classic Shell, I get the same effect on the normal Windows menus, such as Start.
and just to make my point, I removed thunderbird as well (also going through this version number bloating crap) I'll just have to tabs open with gmail all the time.
hopefully mozilla will soon realize this version number rubbish isn't doing any favour to users or themselves
Also, apparently they don't plan to stop updated 3.6 anytime soon.
Tom's Hardware article
It IS a small world after all!!!
And to add to the flames, :nutkick:
"Firefox OVER 9000!!!?!!!!" (No more need for larger numbers. Just one name to rule them all.) :p
*EDIT*
Spacing out here... been too long a day.
I could be just fooling myself though to justify yet another FF update.
:)
for example, the tab layout changes - hides up the top, not down below address bar where it used to, IIRC.
i'm sure you can find another machine/VM/user profile to test with.
And what makes you even wonder is that people complaining about how "bad" Firefox's UI looks are raving about Chrome's UI...which is basically the same. :laugh: