Firefox 2.0 Released

radiospan

It's up now at http://www.mozilla.com/

Ruu_Old

Cool *watches for memory leaks*

5uspect

yeah looks good, I like the spell checker, no more excuses for poor spelling in my posts!

Soundman

Ruu wrote:

Cool *watches for memory leaks*

Seems to be using considerably less memory than v1.5.0.7 here. I'm running more extensions than I was on the previous version as well and it is still coming in at using less than half the memory of its predecessor.

aidan_walsh

Aww...

nava

Hi

I had it install up to last week, but I had to go back to 1.5 after had problems to install the plug-in to watch Fox on demad for prison break .

But even after install doesn't work for me.

Regards

Chevano Riley

do not like the [x] boxes being on the individual tabs at all. i keep flicking the mouse up to the corner, finding it empty (except for the redundant drop down list) and crying a little inside.

5uspect

Ah i'm sure someone will put together an advanced tab extension like they did for older versions that allow you to revert to your favourite method.

tman

RC3 has been nice and stable for me so far, will give this one a lash later

aidan_walsh

do not like the [x] boxes being on the individual tabs at all.

Open about:config and change the value of browser.tabs.closeButtons to 3. This will revert to the old default behavior, except the drop down is still there.

I quite like the new Tab management behaviors though. And the spell check (will add-on dictionaries) is a blessing.

thebman

You can undo closing a tab with some keyboard shortcut. Don't know what, I'm using Opera.

5uspect

just right click on the tab bar and pick "undo close tab"

declan_lgs

aidan_walsh wrote:

Aww...

haha I love this comment:

You guys should send them a cake back — with the recipe!

tman wrote:

RC3 has been nice and stable for me so far, will give this one a lash later

Firefox 2.0 is just RC3 renamed.

TempestSabre

I had one crash of Firefox 2 that deleted all my bookmarks. I have them backed up so no problem. It seems faster then the old one though.

projectmayhem

doesn't blow me away, but i've been beta testing since beta 1, all the way up to rc3... hard to impress me i guess. still though, feels better then ie7

5uspect

Its a web browser, what do you want it to do? have your babies?!
Seriously tho 2.0 is not the biggest improvement ever in browsing history but I am still introducing people who only ever used IE to firefox and they do still seem to get that Wow! feeling. Should be interesting to see how those who only ever heard of IE7 as an alternative or new browser appreciate firefox...

TempestSabre

I'm getting used to IE7 now and think its only ok. Still much prefer the usability of Firefox. Bookmarks are better handled in IE though.

Zapho

I like it. Nothing completely different about it, but its definately using less memory than 1.5.

Its a keeper.

nah_biy!

alt+s for posting on forums seems to have been overridden with History

declan_lgs

nah_biy! wrote:

alt+s for posting on forums seems to have been overridden with History

I am sooo making an extension to change that

declan_lgs

done! overlays ftw
http://piratepenguin.is-a-geek.com/~declan/crap/history-accesskey-remover/history-accesskey-changer.xpi

edit: humm I just discovered that ALT + Shift + S would work w/o the extension - dunno if that wouldn't work on Windows, but anyhow..