Download Mozilla Firefox 8.0 Beta 1

Version 7.0 of the web browser Mozilla Firefox is only a few days old and the first beta release of version 8.0 has already appeared. New in this version, which should be released in early November if all goes well, is the option to search directly on Twitter via the search bar. Furthermore, for security reasons, it is now more difficult to install add-ons that do not come from Mozilla’s website. Below is an overview of the most important improvements that we can look forward to in version 8.0:

The latest version of Firefox Beta has the following changes:

• Add-ons installed by third party programs are now disabled by default
• Added a one time add-on selection dialog to manage previously installed add-ons
• Added Twitter to the search bar
• Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored
• Improved tab animations when moving, reordering, or detaching tabs
• Improved performance and memory handling when using
• Added CORS support for cross domain textures in WebGL
• Added support for HTML5 context menus
• Added support for insertAdjacentHTML
• Improved CSS hyphen support for many languages
• Improved WebSocket support
• Fixed several stability issues

Please see the complete list of changes in this version. Web and extension developers should also view the curated list of platform changes† You may also be interested in the list of changes in the previous version†

The following downloads are available:
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 beta 1 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 beta 1 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X (English)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 Beta 1 for Windows (English)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 Beta 1 for Linux (English)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 Beta 1 for Mac OS X (English)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 beta 1 for Windows (Frisian)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 beta 1 for Linux (Frisian)
Mozilla Firefox 8.0 beta 1 for Mac OS X (Frisian)