Firefox 8 released

Yaawn. Yes, Firefox has yet again released another major version of Firefox and here is list of 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 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
• 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

Also, here is a list of Known issues that you must read before upgrating to  this version.

All systems:

• Users of the Twitter search plugin may see Twitter appear in the search provider list multiple times (see bug 690658)
• Choosing the "Pop out" menu item while watching fullscreen YouTube videos may cause Firefox to hang (see bug 675645)
• Roundcube, webmail software used by many hosting companies, incorrectly displays an ellipses in place of long email titles. The Roundcube team has been notified of the issue (see bug 680610)
• Arabic text on BBC.co.uk does not display correctly. The BBC has been notified of the issue (see bug 674335)
• Firefox will now display a corrupted content error when it detects certain types of misconfigured servers. This is not a Firefox issue, please contact the website owner (see bug 681140)
• For some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual (see bug 579260)
• If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash (see bug 573369)

Microsoft Windows

• Some users of Adobe Reader X have experienced instability when viewing PDF documents in the browser. Uninstalling and reinstalling Adobe Reader X has been determined to resolve the issue (see bug 640901)
• Some ALPS touchpad drivers break scrolling in Firefox. A workaround has been identified (see bug 605357)

Mac OS X

• For some users, the preference dialog is not shown and a rendering error (in the form of a white square) is shown instead. This is caused an add-on incorrectly setting Firefox preferences (see bug 641288)
• Users running Mac OS X 10.7 may see a crash when the file chooser dialog is shown. Apple has been notified of the issue (see bug 670842)
• Users running Mac OS X 10.7 are no longer able to use gestures to navigate. This is due to underlying operating system changes and is fixed by Mac OS X 10.7.2 (see bug 668953)
• This version of Firefox will not work on Macintosh hardware with Power PC CPUs (see bug 587799)

Linux and Unix

• The video control buttons may not work when viewing QuickTime videos with libtotem (see bug 625036)
• Users compiling from source might need a newer gcc and libstdc++ as the build requirements have changed (see bug 578880)