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Firefox 2.0 is out
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Come and get it:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
Posted by: justinious
My initial impression is a good one. I'm totally loving the built in spellchecker. However, alt+s now drops down the history menu, and no longer lets me quick post. The look is a bit better, too. The RSS feed options are delicious. Now I need to find some time to give it a good shakedown.
edit: The smart search in the Google bar just made me cream in my shorts.
Posted by: redwench
ewwwww
Posted by: shadysoldier
it is awesome with the spell checker thing and it is faster and i don't get the "could not find site" page anymore.
Posted by: pdnielsen
It looks like it works with Vista RC1 too. Now if HP would come out with drivers for my all-in-one printer and Real Networks would come out with the fixes they promised would be available last month I'd be all SET! I could actually get rid of Windows XP altogether. I am getting tired of twiddling my thumbs while I wait for the so-called fast boot to finish. I still won't be buying Vista as soon as it's officially released, but it's nice to see Firefox working on the avaluation version in the meanwhile.
Posted by: pdnielsen
By the way, it's a good thing to be a freak these days, don't ya think?
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Sounds like you're using the 64-bit version.
I imagine Vista will leave a lot of old printers and scanners we're hanging onto in the dust. Sure you could get the 32-bit version, but you're limited to just 4 gigs of memory in a 32-bit OS. Not a big deal now, but eventually.
I believe there is a CUPS version for Windows which might eventually be an alternative for older hardware. My ancient HP printer works in 64-bit Gentoo so there's hope. If nothing else, somekind of warapper should work.
Posted by: ZLRAC
After I upgraded to 2.0 I realized that a lot of my favorite extensions wouldn't work. I'm sure some of you have extensions that aren't compatible either. I found an awesome way to fix this...
Get Nightly Tester Tools
Then install it and re-start Firefox.
Then Tools/Add-ons/Make All Compatible
Best of all, Fasterfox now works w/ 2.0 !!!
Posted by: Bishop
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Originally Posted by shadysoldier
it is awesome with the spell checker thing and it is faster and i don't get the "could not find site" page anymore.
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no ****ing way!!
Posted by: taco_fox
Have they fixed the memory leaks yet? I'm still using 1.5.0.4 and earlier it was using 200MB+ with only three tabs open.
Posted by: pdnielsen
They're still working on an agreement for a Macromedia player that will work with it, but so far that's the only extension I've run into a problem with. It's usually that the page just wants to display advertising anyway, and that's not exactly what I am surfing the net for... 
Posted by: Outlaw
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Originally Posted by ZLRAC
After I upgraded to 2.0 I realized that a lot of my favorite extensions wouldn't work. I'm sure some of you have extensions that aren't compatible either. I found an awesome way to fix this...
Get Nightly Tester Tools
Then install it and re-start Firefox.
Then Tools/Add-ons/Make All Compatible
Best of all, Fasterfox now works w/ 2.0 !!! |
Actually, I had a bunch of incompatible extensions. But while I was installing, Firefox asked me to check for updates ones. I pushed the button and it automatically downloaded and installed all the updated versions, working great again with no effort at all.
Posted by: FadedMaster
Workin' well for me so far. As far as that memory leak problem, I haven't had it in a long long time. And 2.0 doesn't seem to have it either. I like the fact that it warns you of sites suspected of phishing. The live bookmark and RSS feeds are cool features.
Posted by: ZLRAC
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Originally Posted by Outlaw
Actually, I had a bunch of incompatible extensions. But while I was installing, Firefox asked me to check for updates ones. I pushed the button and it automatically downloaded and installed all the updated versions, working great again with no effort at all.
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Outlaw,
That may have worked for you, but not for everyone. If you have extensions that have not been redone by their author to be Firefox 2.0 compatible, then the fix I suggested will work in those cases.
Posted by: oderus1671
MMMMMMMM..... firefox is yummy!
Posted by: matt.modica
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Originally Posted by redwench
ewwwww
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I agree, the old style was definatley better. Looks more like the GNOME linux style.
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