its out finally!
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
amen.
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its out finally!
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
amen.
And it's pretty sweet. I've been using it since this morning (waited for some colleagues to try it first) and it's wickedly fast. Haven't run into issues yet with it and it converted my existing plug-ins/extensions on it's own.. rather nifty. :)
Hey Hey,
I was pumped to see it come out... I do have a few issues with it though..
-- They said they fixed the memory issues, yet with only 5 tabs open, Firefox is using 80MB of RAM (a little excessive in my opinion, IE7 with the same 5 websites open uses only 47MB RAM -- Although in my mind that's still too much)
-- Some of the older vulns still exist... Little things that should have been fixed.
-- The AntiPhishing feature is sort of crap... It's updated weekly from the Mozilla site... As most of us know.. A phishing site usually doesn't last a full week... It's the first few days that are critical... The only way to get that is to enable the Advanced features and in that case Firefox sends a request to a Google site with an encrypted cookie containing the url of every site you visit... I have some privacy concerns with that... (Look for a blog posting on this in the near future)
-- The spell check contains a very limited set of words and terms... When I type posts half my words are generally highlighted until I add them to the dictionary.. now this is mostly technically terms but Firefox is the browser of geeks, the library should contain these terms...
-- I dislike the X gone from end of the list of tabs... It's now on each tab... I can no longer open 50 tabs then close as I read by keeping my mouse in one spot.. I have to move it to the specific tab... This was a bad move...
-- Not enough of the extensions were upgraded quickly enough... I installed Firefox on Monday before the official release... It was until this morning that most of my extensions finally realized that there were 2.0 versions so I could use them again and even so... some of them still don't work... extension backward compatibility should be key... especially since IE 7 is now competing in that space..
That being said I've been using IE7 and Firefox side by side... and I can't see any features that allow me to want to keep using Firefox... IE7 even runs an update to ensure you have all the patches during install... I have to launch firefox for that functionality...
I've also noticed some alignment issues with DHTML menus in firefox... in 1.5.0.7 they lined up beautifully in IE 6 and 7 they lined up perfectly.. in Firefox 2.... they don't line up at all
That's my thoughts anyways..
Peace,
HT
One feature I liked is the session recovery, when your system or firefox crashes you can restore the websites that you have opened. There is also an undo close tab function. Now you don't need to install extensions for these features. Spell check is very useful, anti phishing may not block all the phishing sites, but it is still useful. Now with IE 7 and FF 2.0 having a phish filter, I guess those 3rd parties anti-phishing toolbars may disappear soon.
I dislike that a lot also but you can still hold your mouse in one spot by leaving the mouse over the X on the first tabbed window and the other windows will fall into it (or just right click and click close all windows)Quote:
-- I dislike the X gone from end of the list of tabs... It's now on each tab... I can no longer open 50 tabs then close as I read by keeping my mouse in one spot.. I have to move it to the specific tab... This was a bad move...
I am liking the release a lot. I have IE7 beta and am not too impressed with it. Perhaps it will be better as time goes on.
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Originally Posted by Raion
My first Window is always my Bloglines feeds which I don't close.. but that would work starting with the first tab.. except that the tabs also resize based on the number and it's not uncommon for me to have 20-30 tabs if I'm writting a blog post, or doing work/research....
However you can go into about:config and find the tab option (can't remember which one exactly but if you set it to 3 the X goes back to the end 1.0 style.. )
Peace,
HT
Hi,
Just Downloaded it ..... Looks Sweet.
Hooray!
Downloading now...
Is this going to auto-update for FF like all the other releases, or is this a special case because it's a new full release?
go to 'about:config'Quote:
Originally Posted by HTRegz
go to 'browser.tabs.closeButtons'
set it to a value of 0-3
value 0 == display the 'X' on the active tab only
value 1 == display the 'X' on all tabs
value 2 == don't display any 'X's
value 3 == display the 'X' at the end of the tab bar, like you want.
i use a nightly build version, but i'm assuming this with firefox 2.0, which it should.
I dunno abt others, but in my case, it didnt notify me via tools>check for updates. :confused: i came to know from a call from a pal who said its ready.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
Ok, well maybe it won't then. I have it set to auto-update so i can always test our forum displays in the latest version.
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Originally Posted by deftones12
I've got a second post 4 or 5 above yours stating this already :)
Well I opened FF and it didn't DL any updates. Even clicked check for new updates and it told me no new ones were available, so this is a totally new separate release.
Firefox only updates on point releases, not on major new versions.
The only drawback I found was that some of my extensions weren't compatible, nor were there alternatives that I could use. However, FF2 is very new, and I'd expect that to be addressed in the near future.
It does use a lot of resources and you have to watch how many tabs you end up having open. However, I've got the resources, so I'm not too bothered.
All mozilla programs (so far) are quite piggish when it comes to resources.
Have you tried using the nightly tester tools.?Quote:
Originally Posted by HTRegz
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly
cheersQuote:
This extension adds a few extras useful to those that regularly test nightly builds of Firefox and Thunderbird.
Features:
- Allows you to force the application to believe an extension is compatible with the current version and enable it.
- Allows copying the build identifier and a list of installed extensions to the clipboard.
- Adds a toolbar button to let you insert the build identifier into the current text box (Not supported in the Application Suite).
- Lets you customise the title bar to include the build identifier and other information.
- Provides talkback integration allowing you to quickly view recent incidents as well as a sidebar that shows all incidents still on your machine (you may be surprised at just how many there are).
- Adds a simple interface for parsing nspr log files for leaks.
- Lets you take a screenshot of any open window and save it as an image, copy it to the clipboard or submit it to Imageshack (not yet fully functional in cairo builds).
acidtone..:)
Have I understood this correctly? There's a tool which forces Firefox to believe an extension is compatible and enables it? How does it manage that? Something along the lines of XP's program compatibility wizard? :D
I would have thought if something wasn't compatible it wouldn't work - end of story, until they upgraded the extension (?)
http://isc.sans.org/ - Full story.Quote:
There is a new advisory out that indicates there is a remote denial of service exploit in Firefox 1.5.0.7 and Firefox 2. The original post indicated that there could be a buffer overflow and remote code execution component, but as of 10/31 this has not been verified. This exploit will occur when a specifically crafted webpage tries to create a range object with "createRange". So far it will only make the browser crash.
Cheers:
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Originally Posted by JPnyc
I wish I knew the answer to that - I know that in the past, FF wouldn't autoupdate from say 1.04 to something like 1.5.0.7, so I'm wondering if the 'major' releases won't? As soon as I heard the news that FF v2.0 was released I downloaded and installed, I never waited for autoupdate.
As far as the X on the tabs, I love it - I was using the TabX extension in 1.5.07 to make an X appear on each individual tab and I'm glad it's built into FF by default now - but I can understand individuals not liking the way it's setup now - individual close buttons just worked for me...
Overall, I love FF v2.0....
EDIT: Opps, just saw this post by Moira:
If that is in fact the truth, then that seems to confirm what I've noticed in the past...Quote:
Firefox only updates on point releases, not on major new versions.
Yeah it didn't auto-update and I didn't bother to DL it.