Mozilla launches Firefox 4 beta 8 With Faster Graphics

Mozilla launched Firefox 4 Beta 8 an open-source browser changes from its predecessor and sports more than 1,400 bug fixes. Beta 8 also was slightly faster than Beta 7 in rendering JavaScript.

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The newest beta includes simplified setup for Firefox Sync, Mozilla’s bookmark, password and open tabs synchronization service, additional Windows and Mac graphics card support for WebGL, the under-development standard for 3-D graphics rendering, and a revamped extension manager that silently updates any installed add-ons. Currently, Mozilla plans to produce at least two more betas — it won’t finalize a timetable for Beta 9 until after Jan. 1 and then a series of “release candidates” before greenlighting the code. Mozilla also issued an updated beta of its mobile browser, which runs on Android-powered smartphones. Firefox 4 Beta 8 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Mozilla’s site.