Mozilla Firefox 8 is a web browser developed by Mozilla Foundation , available for download in full install version for Windows platforms from legacy sources. This version of Firefox was officially released on 2011-11-08 for public access and a brief summary of important updates and change log pertaining to this edition can be read below.

Firefox 8 released with additional functionalities to manage add-ons in a better way. Now add-ons installed by Mozilla non-certified programs will be disabled by default and user need to validate them and activate. Now add-ons can be selected from a dialog box to find if they are already installed.

To improve the startup performance, Firefox will prompt you to whether load tabs from previous session. Multimedia rendering has been optimized by improved memory handling techniques. WebSocket and WebGL support has been improved in this edition.

There are many unfixed bugs in this edition like browser crash with locked profile startup, Slow Gmail rendering, and incorrect display of many webapps like Roundcube mail, Arabic text etc..