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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.

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  1. Firefox 8.0, now more unstable than ever! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    New changes:

    * Memory requirement increased from 4GB to 6GB (for up to four tabs).
    * Tab limit before crashing increased from 2 to 4.

  2. Re:Negative comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fuck you. Fuck your idiotic release schedule, fuck you for breaking my add-ons just so you can pretend you're keeping up with Chrome. Fuck the entire Mozilla Foundation for turning the only open source browser with any promise into an utter piece of shit. "Working very hard my ass," some of those memory leaks have been around since 4.0. Incidentally, notice that decimal? You could have MADE POINT RELEASES JUST AS FUCKING RAPIDLY AND NOT BROKE ANYTHING. That's where you're entire dumbass argument falls apart. The only, the _only_ justification you have for doing it is that "Well, that's what Google's doing so we're going to suck their dicks from now on!" Well when did the Foundation become about licking Google's boots and emulating their every move, hmm?

    I'll be using Chrome from now on and I won't be looking back, and it's because of people like you. People like you are the fucking poison of the Mozilla Foundation, you and Dotzler both, and you're the reason that I would never install a piece of software coming from your camp of fucking clueless marketroids again. Now go back to your fucking Mozillanazi mailing lists and stop pretending like you give a shit about what the community thinks. The only thing you're worried about is shoving your nose up Google's ass as far as you can get it without having your empty fucking heads submerged. We've moved on. I hope the project's funding dies up and Google cuts you off. I hope you lose your fucking job and Mozilla disappears into the past where it fucking belongs.

  3. Re:Yet another version, still no MSIs or GPOs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    And no ROPs or GORs.

    What the fuck are MSIs and GPOs? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, YOU CUNT?