Mozilla's Firefox continues to follow its rapid release cycle with its fourth major release since Firefox 4.0 debuted last March. Firefox 8.0 is slated for release tomorrow (Nov 8th), but as usual the final build of the browser has been made available on Mozilla's FTP days in advance.
Chrome and Firefox are again blocking direct access to The Pirate Bay's download pages. According to Google's safe browsing program, ThePirateBay.org is a "deceptive site" that may steal user information. The TPB crew has been alerted to the issue and hope it will be resolved soon.
Yeah, that is Google being stupid as usual. Both Chrome & Firefox use Googles faulty attack protection layer. Chrome obviously being made by Google. Not sure how to disable it in Chrome since i do not use that garbage but in Firefox just go to Tools > Options > Security, & uncheck "Block Dangerous and Deceptive Content".
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Chrome, Firefox and Safari are actively blocking direct access to The Pirate Bay. According to the browsers, Thepiratebay.se is a "deceptive site" or "web forgery," that may steal user information. The TPB crew has been alerted to the issue, and hope it will be resolved soon.
Oh gosh!! This news really hurt me as i used to download each and every media from piratebay. If the points that it can steal data from our pc's are right then i will say that they did right.
Don't send him to jail he's a good friend.
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What about internet explorer(or Edge).....does it happens on them too?
"Specific performance optimizations" - Oh goody. I was encountering a major problem with websites using Ajax loading. The system resources used by Firefox jumps from the normal to about 800MB of RAM! Ridiculous and slows everything down. It better be fixed! =/
How the hell you manage to use 2gb of memory usage on motzilla. :-o
Yeah in previous versions like back with FF4, it used to go near 2GB and then crash. I think it behaves a lot better than it used to.
Are FF releasing new versions each month? I swear this time last year we were on FF4?
Another version already...
I remember when Firefox releases were rare. But since I stopped using it 2 years ago in favour of Chrome. I lost count on how many releases they had. I think the last one I used was 3 or 4.