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Marzuk  Posts: 153
Registered: 2002-10-21 16:08:17
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
Subject:
Firefox 8.0!!! |
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"adding Twitter as a search bar option, tab loading tweaks, and the default disabling of addons installed by third-parties."
I'm overwhelmed! Its been a long time since we saw this big an update. Good thing they upgraded the major version.
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Terminius_Est  Title: Moon River
Posts: 894
Registered: 2002-2-27 06:08:05
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
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Firefox 8.0!!! |
Didn't 7 come out last month?
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Lonestar_1  Posts: 259
Registered: 2004-8-26 08:40:28
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
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Firefox 8.0!!! |
They moved to a different release schedule so more "major" releases (aka N+1.0). Really does not change much, just means we will be on firefox version 20 much faster then previous old schedules.
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-Mithan-  Title: VNBoard Admin
Posts: 1,287
Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
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Firefox 8.0!!! |
They basically realized that fractional point releases don't get a lot of press so they are going with lots of little "big" releases that push the main number forward but don't offer anything new.
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-Mithan- Title: VNBoard Admin
Posts: 1,287
Registered: 2000-3-1 11:53:15
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
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Firefox 8.0!!! |
And that being said, I just installed it.
OMG! THIS IS THE SAME AS BEFORE!
WOOT!
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Ookane Title: Moderator
Posts: 75
Registered: 2002-10-15 12:42:14
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
Subject:
Firefox 8.0!!! |
lol Mithan
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RF_YWG Title: Pot-bellied Biker
Posts: 105
Registered: 2006-9-23 13:46:46
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
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Firefox 8.0!!! |
Hopefully 8.0 fixes the intermittent freezing issue experienced by some (including me) with 6.x and 7.x.
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Steelwind_Oo Title: Lurking Oo
Posts: 1,789
Registered: 2000-9-30 10:26:30
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
Subject:
Firefox 8.0!!! |
7 was causing weird load issues on some of the sites I frequent. I did the tweaks to kill the html5 and whatnot but it was still choking up on some things. I always have multiple browsers up for testing and whatnot but I like to do all my browsing (besides the testing or special purpose stuff) in one.
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff
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Registered: 2002-6-28 03:39:29
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
Subject:
Firefox 8.0!!! |
I run the nightly v10 releases since it's all the same, lol.
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Ravynmagi Title: Moderator
Posts: 1,098
Registered: 2001-12-23 17:10:17
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Date Posted:
11/8/11 3:20pm
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Firefox 8.0!!! |
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I had problems with Firefox 7 intermittently freezing up. And during that time Sync was messed up. I went back to Firefox 6 and all was fine again (even with Sync on). I never went back to version 7, so don't know if Sync getting fixed would have resolved the freezing issue for me with version 7.
I figured version 6 was still working great and with the 6 week release schedule, I wouldn't need to wait long for version 8, so I did wait.
Running 8 now. So far after a few hours, I haven't had any weird issues or freezing.
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