Directly from the press release: "The Mozilla Foundation today announced the immediate availability of a new preview release of its next generation web browser, Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 0.8 represents the bleeding edge of Internet technology and raises the bar for ease of use, performance, robustness and standards compliance." Note the namechange from Firebird to Firefox. Also released is an updated Mozilla mail client, version 0.5 of Thunderbird.

Download links:
Firefox 0.8
Thunderbird 0.5
Select your own mirror
or use a BitTorrent found on Slashdot

I also added a "Get Firefox" button to my site. More banners can be found on the Firefox ad campaign page. I seriously love Firebird^C^C^C^Cfox. And thankful to Joel for turning me on to Mozilla in the first place. I can't stress enough how much better browsing the web is with Mozilla/Firefox than with Internet Explorer. Go ahead and read Neil's 101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that IE cannot.

Update 2/11: While browsing I ran into the blog of John Hicks, the graphic artist who is responsible for the new Firefox logo, he has an entry about the design process behind the logo. [ via Kitta.net ]