If you're interested, here's a handful of screenshots showing what's new in FireFox 0.8. These are collected on one of the cluster machines at the university rather than my own machine since I haven't yet had chance to download it.
- Main window
- About window
- New credits window (with scrolling text!)
- New downloads dialog
- New tab in the Options dialog
- New 'Add Bookmark' window
- FireFox Installer (Windows) I
- FireFox Installer (Windows) II
Update: I now have this running on my laptop, downloaded from Oregon State University's FTP server. It's going to take some getting used to the new name, but I really like the new logo and About window, and the browser feels much more complete now and less like a 'technology preview'. The only other problem I have is that I need to re-install my extensions, since I used Mozilla Backup to do a partial reset of my profile, and naturally every Mozilla-related site is at a crawl today.
Update II: If you still can't download it, try the UK mirror service which now has the file. I've also added the Firefox button to the home page.
Neil,
What happened to about:credits
is that no longer going to be used? I kind of liked that method, as it shows all that contribute to open source (rather large group of people who put their hand in Mozilla).
I like the new logo and about page too. And the name (though switching after all that great press the past few weeks is a shame, should have been done at 0.7, looking back).
Did anyone else have to delete their chrome.rdf files to get it to work properly? Not really a simple thing to do for a complete novice, in fact I doubt they’d have figured out what to do at all!
Dave: You wouldn’t have needed to (probably) if you’d followed the instructions and disabled all your extensions first.
Robert: about:credits still works but the new credits window looks more spiffy.
I see it works, and agree the window is spiffy, but a lot of people are missing :-(.
Would be nice if someone turned the page into RDF, and perhaps Mozilla could parse the file, and append them all to the end.
like always, it is recomended that u do a clean install, delete ur profile folder, and install ff in a new folder (not over an old one)