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Firefox 8 Notable Changes
- Add People Search to Firefox (Twitter)
- Silent Update: Lessen the showing of the what’s new page
- Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand
- Ensure user accepts add-ons installed by third-party apps
- Confirm add-ons on upgrade
Firefox 8 Improvement
- Firefox 8 is 20% faster than Firefox 5 in almost every metric: start up, session restore, first paint, JavaScript execution, and even 2D canvas and 3D WebGL rendering.
- Changes are not just under-the-hood, synthetic-benchmark, on-paper thing either: the difference between FF5 and FF8 is very noticeable.
- Considerably faster at JavaScript execution, posting benchmark results that are about 15% faster than Firefox 5.
- Firefox 8 is as fast or faster than the latest Dev Channel build of Chrome 14. Chrome’s WebGL implementation is still faster, but with Azure, Firefox’s 2D performance is better than Chrome.
- JavaScript performance is also virtually identical.
Download Firefox 8
Firefox 8 Final now available for download in Mozilla Firefox home page, download Firefox 8 for yout OS through following links
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html
Download Firefox 8 via FTP
You can download Firefox 8 Final through following Mozilla firefox FTP :
- Download Firefox 8 Ubuntu 32bit (tar.bz2)
- Download Firefox 8 Ubuntu 64bit (tar.bz2)
- Download Firefox for Mac and Windows