FireFox 2 !!!

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:17 am

OMGWTFBBQOKBYE

ok.. maybe not That neeto, but pretty darn close!

(wow.. only 5.6 megs!)

*eggnog!*

Ok.. I'm a couple days late.

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:47 am

The spell check function is very nice. Mobius will be a LITTLE bit happier.

I like the way it restores open tabs on a restart.

AND, I can dump my \"search engine hack\" extension because they finally built in a way to delete search engines you don't want.

Probably more of a 1.8 than a 2.0, but still, very nice overall.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:23 am

Yup, just waiting for theme updates now. I like the new default theme. Nice and clean.

Kilarin · Post by **Kilarin** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:41 am

Duper wrote:just waiting for theme updates now

I use skypilot, which has already been updated for 2.0.

Question though, why does Firefox not auto-update to 2.0? despite running the auto-update function several times, it always said that there were no updates available and I had to go and download 2.0 by hand.

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:15 am

I use iFox Smooth. round stuff is appealing to me these days.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 9:10 am

Kilarin wrote:
Duper wrote:just waiting for theme updates now
I use skypilot, which has already been updated for 2.0.

Question though, why does Firefox not auto-update to 2.0? despite running the auto-update function several times, it always said that there were no updates available and I had to go and download 2.0 by hand.

Probably autoupdate does not do major versions, only minor ones.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 10:06 am

They're going to roll out Firefox 2 as an optional autoupdate in the coming week to spread out the load on their servers.

Wareagle · Post by **Wareagle** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 11:12 pm

Firefox rocks imo

Top Wop · Post by **Top Wop** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:06 pm

Well whoopty doo, Firefox rolls along with a new version number. AND THEY STILL HAVE NOT FIXED THE MEMORY LEAKS!!! SINCE BETA!

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/28/2115202.shtml

Was this supposed to be the killer browser or something? At this rate by the next release it would be better to go back to IE or Opera. New theme isnt that good, they put an x on every tab unlike before causing more clutter and navigational nonsense, and the options menu is wildly illogical and lacks quite a few... options, say switch the x on the tabs to the old style. I shouldn't have to do \"research\" on the internet to customize my browser to be the way I want it to.

Very dissapointing release on the count that they STILL have not fixed the memory leaks since beta. Ill see to it that I will be ditching it soon. Mobius your precious browser stinks!

Skyalmian · Post by **Skyalmian** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 5:15 pm

A couple of things bother me about 2.0 also.

Have to go into about:config just to disable the automatic backing up of bookmarks and displaying of favicons for bookmark links. Favicons, btw, bloat the size of the bookmarks.html because their data are put in it.
No option to set what protocols / files are to be associated with the program. Mozilla and SeaMonkey have this under Advanced settings.
This one hurts: no option to have a removed cookie automatically dumped into the blocked cookies category. Mozilla and SeaMonkey have this.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:16 pm

I grabbed FF 2.0 when it rolled out... and I agree with both sides.

The memory leaks suck, the changed theme isn't anything special, and I get increased incompatability
Overall, performance seems faster and there are some improvements.

Personally, I think it's really just a \"1.6\" version with some \"problems\".

1.5 was good and now I'm wishing I still had that on 2 of my systems... but I'm waiting out the fixes. Gee, this is kind of similar to MS product releases... buggy and so you wait for the post release \"updates\" that are really patches.

I also installed IE7 on the same two systems and couldn't miss all the similarities to FF... with a MS flair to them. The FF interface is way better than the restrictive IE7 interface. IMHO.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:39 pm

Kilarin wrote:The spell check function is very nice. Mobius will be a LITTLE bit happier.

I'll be happy when FF2 is stable, and safe to install. I can't lose any of my 30 or so extensions.