NewsBot Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Firefox (referred to as Fx) is an open source browser developed by Mozilla. The second most popular browser worldwide, Firefox features a customizable user interface that allows you to enhance it using custom themes and Personas. Personas change the appearance of the user interface without rearranging the elements. Themes however, can completely change the UI ranging from the types of buttons to the color sceme used. Add-ons allow you to customize Firefox to your liking to make a more enjoyable web surfing experience. Some examples of popular add-ons that you can use to customize Firefox are AdBlock Plus, DownThemAll!, TabMixPlus and many more. Firefox has tabbed browsing, bookmarks, a built in session manager, private browsing, personas, themes, add-ons and more. Firefox does not use ActiveX which helps make it a more secure browser. Firefox does make use of many plugins to enhance your web experience. From Shockwave, Flash, Quicktime and more; your browsing experience reaches new levels with the Firefox browser. Downloads: Firefox 8.0.1 | All builds View: Release Notes Homepage: Mozilla Firefox View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0_0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Premature post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 They'll probably just call it 9.0. grr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted November 17, 2011 Administrator Share Posted November 17, 2011 This link seems to work: http://pv-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/8.0.1/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%208.0.1.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0_0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 It's cool, I'll go ahead and wait until Mozilla updates the Firefox page - still @ 8.0. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Tarun Posted November 18, 2011 Administrator Share Posted November 18, 2011 I've seen this on a few news sites, which is why I posted. Not sure why it's not on the releases or official site yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 It's not there because they're still building it. The last attempt (for Windows) failed to compile. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0_0 Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 It's not there because they're still building it. The last attempt (for Windows) failed to compile. Is it specific languages that fail to compile? Post #1 and FileHippo both point to en-US/Firefox Setup 8.0.1.exe. Where is FileHippo getting their file from. I wonder if post #4 matches FileHippo: Name: Firefox Setup 8.0.1.exe Size: 14,752,872 Hash: D775D121A0799FF9C448201A533CA7D9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 There's an 8.0.1 release candidate build, that's probably what FileHippo has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 It's a bit hard to tell, as the link in post#4 is dead -- the file was yanked because it didn't work. The 8.0.1 RC from yesterday, which is, er WAS, probably a later build than the FileHippo one is also now out-of-date itself. The FileHippo one may even be the early version that crashed. Last time I checked, it's going to be another day (i.e. tomorrow) before it's all built again. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenknight Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Not much to this update anyway. From what I hear only Mac users will get it through auto-update, since it fixes a Java bug in Macs. For Windows and Linux, it's an optional update - you need it only if you run an old version of Roboform, Firefox has been blocking those for no good reason and this update will fix that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 I agree. Not much for Windows users and pretty irresponsible of the news sites and FileHippo to link to a test version which didn't work. For Macs, however, it's really needed, as the Java bug has risen from nowhere to being the #1 top crash on a Mac ever since the new Java update* was released back on about 8th or 9th November. *That's Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 6 (for Snow Leopard) & Java for OS X Lion Update 1. For RoboForm, I think it's the other way round. There's an incompatibility causing a crash on startup, so some versions need blocking. There's more to it that just updating the blocklist -- it seems Firefox also needs patching for this. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James_A Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 Just to confirm, and amplify, what has already been said ... From what I hear only Mac users will get it through auto-update ... If you are running 8.0 on Windows or Linux, you will not see any form of auto-update (to 8.0.1). If you are running 8.0 on Windows or Linux, and you check for updates manually you will still be told that Firefox is up-to-date. (You still won't get 8.0.1.) Only Mac 8.0 users will receive the update to 8.0.1 either automatically or manually. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0_0 Posted November 23, 2011 Share Posted November 23, 2011 For RoboForm, I think it's the other way round. There's an incompatibility causing a crash on startup, so some versions need blocking. There's more to it that just updating the blocklist -- it seems Firefox also needs patching for this. What's new in Firefox 8.0.1 Fixed Mac OS X crash that occurred in certain instances when a Java Applet is loaded with Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_29 installed.Fixed Windows startup crash caused by RoboForm versions older than 7.6.2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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