Mozilla Firefox 8 Released

HTC · Nov 8, 2011

yogurt_21 said:
why is it everytime I open firefox it's a new version?

I'm using version 10.01 (nightly build) and it updates pretty much every day: sometimes more then once a day.

Deleted member 67555 · Nov 8, 2011

There is a definite problem with Grease Monkey I keep getting script issues or likely it's a problem with FFs security
EDIT: uhm never mind....reinsalled Scripts and it's fine....something just didn't go right with the upgrade...

Kreij · Nov 8, 2011

No wonder they wanted to get rid of version numbers.
Even Bta couldn't help getting a little snarky in his OP. :laugh:

radrok · Nov 8, 2011

Everytime I update Firefox I have to wait for Addons to follow the version...
I think this time I'll wait a good week before updating :laugh:

..'Ant'.. · Nov 8, 2011

yogurt_21 said:
why is it everytime I open firefox it's a new version?

Because they got Chrome to challenge with all their versions.

Red_Machine · Nov 8, 2011

radrok said:
Everytime I update Firefox I have to wait for Addons to follow the version...
I think this time I'll wait a good week before updating

Just use Nightly Tester Tools. It allows you to ignore "incompatibility" (which is usually just the addon panicking when it sees the new version number) and force the addon to run.

Mussels · Nov 8, 2011

yay, MOAR BIGGER NUMBARS

Mr McC · Nov 9, 2011

BazookaJoe said:
Perhaps I'm just odd- but I REALLY REALLY HATE how they have removed the windows title bar - The whole top of the program is now one giant border-less amorphous grey blob and it looks forking horrible.

http://img.techpowerup.org/111108/Capture351.jpg

brandonwh64 said:
I just installed and I seen no difference in the looks

qubit said:
Thanks bta, I've just installed the latest meh update to Firefox... and it looks just like Firefox 7.

Themes? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/themes/?sort=created&page=1

yogurt_21 said:
why is it everytime I open firefox it's a new version?

They work faster than everybody else.

qubit · Nov 9, 2011

@Mr McC: I have loads of themes and personas installed on mine, lol. I tried setting it back to default and it still looked cack. It's the glass effect around the text when I put the bookmarks bar at the top of the browser window. There's this flipping halo effect that makes it hard to see. :rolleyes:

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.

Flanker · Nov 9, 2011

I'm sick of this crap, I just did my third migration attempt to chrome, this time I'm here to stay (I think)

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

timmyisme22 · Nov 9, 2011

Meh. I'm still using Firefox 3, 3.6.24 to be exact. I couldn't stand the horrible look and feel of Firefox 4 (or any of the newer ones) so I stayed in 3 and still get updates (3.6.24 was released 11/8/11). It's running fine, haven't ever had memory leaks, and have yet to have more then the occasional crash (mainly due to something else screwing with my machine).

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.)

*EDIT*
Spacing out here... been too long a day.

Prima.Vera · Nov 9, 2011

I hope it has better stability than the last version and also less resources reqs...:shadedshu

Widjaja · Nov 9, 2011

It seems more responsive.
I could be just fooling myself though to justify yet another FF update.

Roph · Nov 9, 2011

Drone · Nov 10, 2011

I totally ignored 8 and installed nightly build 11. It doesn't seem to be too bad. Works smooth, ram usage is less than 100MB with one tab opened. Though it looks like Opera.

entropy13 · Nov 10, 2011

I just updated to 8.0 and it makes me wonder why there are several posts complaining about the looks of the browser. Mine looked exactly the same as it was in 3.6!

Mussels · Nov 10, 2011

entropy13 said:
I just updated to 8.0 and it makes me wonder why there are several posts complaining about the looks of the browser. Mine looked exactly the same as it was in 3.6!

cause you had an existing install, so it kept most of the looks. same is not true for a fresh install.

qubit · Nov 10, 2011

Mussels said:
cause you had an existing install, so it kept most of the looks. same is not true for a fresh install.

I've always installed over the top since I started using FF since version 3 something. So, installing over v7 will look different to a clean install?

Mussels · Nov 10, 2011

qubit said:
I've always installed over the top since I started using FF since version 3 something. So, installing over v7 will look different to a clean install?

i believe thats whats happening, yes.

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.

entropy13 · Nov 10, 2011

Mussels said:
cause you had an existing install, so it kept most of the looks. same is not true for a fresh install.

The look changed during the 3.6 to 4 install however. What you said only applies since 4.

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:

Flanker · Nov 11, 2011

Flanker said:
I'm sick of this crap, I just did my third migration attempt to chrome, this time I'm here to stay (I think)

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

nevermind, back to FF and TB, plug in restriction in chrome just broke the deal

timmyisme22 said:
Meh. I'm still using Firefox 3, 3.6.24 to be exact. I couldn't stand the horrible look and feel of Firefox 4 (or any of the newer ones) so I stayed in 3 and still get updates (3.6.24 was released 11/8/11). It's running fine, haven't ever had memory leaks, and have yet to have more then the occasional crash (mainly due to something else screwing with my machine).

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,
"Firefox OVER 9000!!!?!!!!" (No more need for larger numbers. Just one name to rule them all.)

*EDIT*
Spacing out here... been too long a day.

i'll give this a shot

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