Firefox 8.0 is Released

The Firefox teams seems to no longer care about add-ons and add-on users. I am an Add-on author. I submitted an updated version of my addon for Firefox 8 on October 27. Twelve days later the new version is still sitting in a sandbox waiting editorial review. With a new release happening every 6 weeks this kind of behavior is inexcusable and will likely drive people away from Add-ons.<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/categorize/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/categorize/</a>

The add-on thing could be huge, if it works out. I am tired of seeing computers riddled with spybars.

Folks at mozilla - keep up the good work. Could you create some videos and tutorials about extension development?

Have the memory issues been resolved? Under Windows 7, it isn't uncommon to find an idle Firefox browser with a few low-activity tabs using up more than 1.5GB of memory. It's gotten to a stage where I have to restart the browser every couple of days...reminds me of when I had to this with my Windows PC! I've recently moved over the Chrome and while I miss Firefox, the browser is far less of a memory hog.

Is this great news, or good news, or nothing too exciting? Dunno. It might be interesting to learn how many people read this in another browser, popped over to firefox to update it ... and then returned to their other browser. We may be at the point where browsers are like toilet paper -- lots of brands will do the work, and it's hard to pay much attention to which one is installed.

s/is released/has been released/;

Just got the notification, but didn't upgrade because a lot of my very useful extensions for HTML dev weren't compatible.<p>I don't think the new features in 7-&#62;8 make up for the lack of my extensions.

In 5 weeks they are going to be shipping Firefox 13.0.

It would make more sense (to me) that they focused on fixing some of the many bugs filed in the bug tracker. Just saying, but then Chrome is my browser of choice anyway...

Dear Mozilla. Why do you keep doing all these full version releases? Seriously it's just annoying. Just because IE is on version 10. Doesn't mean you have to be. Why are you doing this.... You've gone from 3-8 in a year. That's not right.