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    Mozilla ships Firefox 8, patches 8 bugs and adds Twitter search

    Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 8, adding Twitter search to the browser and patching eight vulnerabilities.
    Since Mozilla kicked off its every-six-week upgrade cycle last summer, each new Firefox has had relatively few visible changes. That held true yesterday.
    Firefox 8's most notable addition was Twitter as a choice in Firefox's search bar, letting users look up topics, hashtags and usernames on the micro-blogging service. Twitter search is currently available only in the English, Japanese, Portuguese and Slovenian editions of Firefox.
    Mozilla also made good on a promise last August to automatically disable add-ons installed without user approval. Behind-the-back add-ons have cropped up at times, most recently in January when one bundled with Skype caused so many browser crashes that Mozilla blacklisted it. When users start Firefox 8, all add-ons that have been surreptitiously installed are turned off by default.
    Other changes and enhancements to Firefox 8 included on-demand tab loading at startup for faster restored sessions, and developer support for additional features of the hardware-accelerated 3D graphics standard, WebGL.
    As part of Tuesday's upgrade, Mozilla also fixed eight vulnerabilities, five of them rated "critical," the most-serious ranking in Mozilla's threat scoring system. The remaining three bugs were labeled "high," the next-most-serious rating.
    One of the patches was for a data theft bug originally fixed in August when Mozilla launched Firefox 6, but which was reintroduced in Firefox 7 after developers launched a new Windows graphics acceleration framework, dubbed "Azure," in the September upgrade.
    Mozilla blamed a Mac-only vulnerability on Apple and Intel, saying that the flaw could let attackers sniff out secrets by monitoring a Mac's graphics processor.
    "This problem is due to a bug in the driver for Intel integrated GPUs [graphics processing units] on recent Mac OS X hardware," said Mozilla in the accompanying advisory .
    Mozilla yesterday also released Firefox 3.6.24, a security update that patched three vulnerabilities. The aging edition - Mozilla shipped Firefox 3.6 in January 2010 - is still supported, in large part because enterprise users have resisted the company's rapid release tempo

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    Re: Mozilla ships Firefox 8, patches 8 bugs and adds Twitter search

    Yes had some of those Mozilla updates on startup today, with the browser addons disabled by default, unless you physically enabled them.

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