{"id":421,"date":"2011-11-09T05:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ubuntupirates.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2011-11-09T05:36:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T05:36:19","slug":"firefox-8-officially-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 8 Officially Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=24 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=left]<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Firefox 8 Notable Changes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add People Search to Firefox (Twitter)<\/li>\n<li>Silent Update: Lessen the showing of the what&#8217;s new page<\/li>\n<li>Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand<\/li>\n<li>Ensure user accepts add-ons installed by third-party apps<\/li>\n<li>Confirm add-ons on upgrade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Firefox 8 Improvement\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Changes are not just under-the-hood, synthetic-benchmark, on-paper thing either: the difference between FF5 and FF8 is very noticeable.<\/li>\n<li>Considerably faster at JavaScript execution, posting benchmark results that are about 15% faster than Firefox 5.<\/li>\n<li>Firefox 8 is as fast or faster than the latest Dev Channel build of Chrome 14. Chrome\u2019s WebGL implementation is still faster, but with Azure, Firefox\u2019s 2D performance is better than Chrome.<\/li>\n<li>JavaScript performance is also virtually identical.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Download Firefox 8<\/strong><br \/>\nFirefox 8 Final now available for download in Mozilla Firefox home page, download Firefox 8 for yout OS through following links<\/p>\n<pre>http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/products\/download.html<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Download Firefox 8 via FTP<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can download Firefox 8 Final through following Mozilla firefox FTP :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Ubuntu 32bit\" href=\"ftp:\/\/63.245.208.138\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/releases\/8.0\/linux-i686\/it\/firefox-8.0.tar.bz2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Firefox 8 Ubuntu 32bit (tar.bz2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ubuntu 64bit\" href=\"ftp:\/\/63.245.208.138\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/releases\/8.0\/linux-x86_64\/it\/firefox-8.0.tar.bz2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Firefox 8 Ubuntu 64bit (tar.bz2)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Windows Firefox\" href=\"ftp:\/\/63.245.208.138\/pub\/mozilla.org\/firefox\/releases\/8.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Firefox for Mac and Windows<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=24 w=320 h=240 mode=watermark float=left] &nbsp; Firefox 8 Notable Changes Add People Search to Firefox (Twitter) Silent Update: Lessen the showing of the what&#8217;s new page Expose prefs for tabs-on-demand Ensure user accepts add-ons installed by third-party apps Confirm add-ons on upgrade &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Firefox 8 Improvement\u00a0 Firefox 8 is 20% faster than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,23,11,13],"tags":[231,232,48],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-application","category-linux","category-news","category-opensource","tag-firefox","tag-firefox-8","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}