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Firefox 8.0 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the almost-caught-up-to-ie's-version-number dept.

Today Mozilla announced the launch of Firefox 8.0. The headline features this time around include adding Twitter as a search bar option, tab loading tweaks, and the default disabling of addons installed by third-parties. "Sometimes you download third-party software and are surprised to discover that an add-on has also installed itself in your browser without asking permission. At Mozilla, we think you should be in control, so we are disabling add-ons installed by third parties without your permission and letting you pick the ones you want to keep." Here are the release notes and download links.

3 of 383 comments (clear)

  1. Don't bother by DesScorp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Firefox 9.0 will be out next week.

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  2. Re:You mean... by RCL · · Score: 1, Funny

    Firefox should be rebranded as FireAsaDotzler 1.0

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  3. Re:Heck, I'll one up that by Chris+Burke · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey that's good to hear. Do you also have a plugin for plugging your plugin? And if you used the plugin-plugging plugin to plug your plugin-plugger, would the internet stack overflow? :)

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