Firefox 8 Available For Download
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Ancient people used the sun to calculate the passing of time. That isn’t necessarily the most accurate time-keeping method around now – especially with the whole daylight savings time thing – but fortunately, us modern types have something just as reliable to keep track of the days: Firefox’s new rapid-release schedule. Six weeks after Firefox 7 launched, Firefox 8 is now available for download – but you’ll need to scrounge around a bit for it.
That’s because the official download page on the Firefox website still points to a version 7 download. Expect that to be changed tomorrow (November 8), the official six-week anniversary date of the release of Firefox 7. For now, early adopters can download Firefox 8 from Firefox’s FTP release page, although the 64-bit Windows version has yet to be uploaded. So what can you expect from the new iteration? Well, perhaps most importantly it will put a halt to third-party programs installing Firefox add-ons without explicit user authorization, as we’ve already covered. Additionally, Twitter has been added to the search bar options. There’s also the standard bug fixes and minor improvements.
If you’re in the United States, you’ll want to nab the “en-US” version for your chosen operating system, by the way. Or just wait for tomorrow, when -- as we said -- the official download page will likely be changed over to Firefox 8.
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Dartht33bagger
November 07, 2011 at 8:57pm
Will Firefox automatically update to the x64 version tomorrow if you have a x64 OS, or will I manually have to uninstall the x86 version and get x64?
88keyz
November 07, 2011 at 5:44pm
Grab it here:
http://pv-mirror01.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/8.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%208.0.exe
praetor_alpha
November 07, 2011 at 3:49pm
550 Permission Denied.
Looking forward to 64 bit. Just gotta get Flash 64 bit too.
abowlofsoda
November 07, 2011 at 1:31pm
I love the rapid release schedule. I love added functionality. It took 2 seconds to rearrange the interface to the way I like it (dont like tabs on top- when I have quite a few tabs theres nowhere to grab the window to drop the browser onto my other monitor)
Sovereign
November 07, 2011 at 1:14pm
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/8.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%208.0.exe
That gives a 550 Permission Denied error.
DoctorX
November 07, 2011 at 12:41pm
looking forward to a real 64bit browser. I would leave chrome for that... I just wish chrome was 64bit
herochild
November 07, 2011 at 6:17pm
You could try Pale Moon. It's a mod of Firefox that comes in a 64 bit version.
http://www.palemoon.org/
rseding91
November 07, 2011 at 2:21pm
Just throwing this out there: IE8/9 both have 64 bit versions installed on Win7 x64.
Now, your opinions on IE aside - they are 64 bit if you wanted to try a 64 bit browser.
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