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November 19th, 2011, 12:12 GMT · By Ionut Ilascu

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Firefox 8.0.1 Deleted from Mozilla Servers

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- RoboForm still not past incompatibilities in Firefox
There is a reason Mozilla announces the release of a product days after uploading it to their servers. And that reason is that testing is still performed and that finding a serious issue would force the company from shipping the product to end-users (these can be viewed as release candidates). And this is exactly what happened in the case of Firefox 8.0.1. The build was available for download from Mozilla’s FTP up until today, when it was deleted because of RoboForm-related issues. One of the problems the development team was working in order to ready a Firefox 8.1.0 update was gathering information for blocklisting RoboForm DLL. It looks like trouble ran much deeper than that and a second build is now required. You can still download the initial Firefox 8.0.1 release and it should not cause any trouble as long as you don’t mix RoboForm in.
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Comment #1 by: kohryu on 19 Nov 2011, 16:02 UTC	reply to this comment
Well, it is a good move from Mozilla. I think Firefox 8.0.1 has some other bug on it, because every time I open Firefox 8.0.1, it runs an add-on compatibility check, which is very annoying, so I revert back to 8.0

Comment #1.1 by: xrjxman on 22 Nov 2011, 01:21 GMT

True... but on my version it also opens a web link to the two most recent updates to the add-ons

Comment #2 by: Hossam Khe on 19 Nov 2011, 20:47 UTC	reply to this comment
Uh, so why it still existe in mozilla ftp servers at this moment!? Check out here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/8.0.1-candidates/ Last modified: 15-Nov-2011

Comment #3 by: hossam khe on 19 Nov 2011, 20:50 UTC	reply to this comment
+ i like the picture lol

Comment #4 by: anonymous on 24 Nov 2011, 19:44 UTC	reply to this comment
Firefox 8.01 is still available for download at www.firefox.com

Comment #4.1 by: Ionut Ilascu on 26 Nov 2011, 09:05 GMT

I guess you missed our blog about the official release of 8.0.1: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-8-0-1-Officially-Released-235967.shtml

Comment #5 by: Etienne B. on 04 Dec 2011, 18:52 UTC	reply to this comment
Why can't you view pdf files with Firefox 8.0.1? (You can with Firefox 3.6.24.)

Comment #5.1 by: Ionut Ilascu on 05 Dec 2011, 20:39 GMT

You need to install Adobe Reader (http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/Adobe-Reader.shtml)

Comment #6 by: Etienne B. on 13 Dec 2011, 11:56 UTC	reply to this comment
Why can't you biew pdf files on Firefox 8.0.1?

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