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Firefox 8, how to install in Linux and whats New

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First of all Download firefox 8 from this link
which is a tar-ball.

Now I have a tricky way of installing this on my system. ( There are a lot of better ways, this is ONLY one way of them ).

Extract the tar ball in your home directory ( or others if you wish ).
Open a terminal and type,

cd /path/to/your/firefoxdirecory
for eg:
cd /home/linuxcandy/firefox
then make the firefox executable by giving this command:

sudo chmod +x firefox

open the folder and you can see "firefox" executable there.
Now click on that executable. There you go.. you have new firefox.







Ever wonder whats new in ff8 ?

  • 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 for select locales. Additional locale support will be added in the future
  • Added a preference to load tabs on demand, improving start-up time when windows are restored
  • Improved performance and memory handling when using <audio> and <video> elements
  • 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
  • Fixed several security issues



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