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

One of the patches was for a data theft bug originally fixed in August when Mozilla launched Firefox 6, nevertheless which was reintroduced in Firefox 7 afterwards developers launched a new Windows graphics acceleration framework, dubbed "Azure," in the September upgrade.

Mac-only vulnerability on Apple

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.

Windows, Mac and Linux editions of Firefox 8 can be downloaded manually from Mozilla's site, during people running Firefox 4 or later will be offered the upgrade through the browser's own update mechanism.

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