Firefox 2.0 is out [Archive]

Stan_Lite

25-10-2006, 15:03

It seems to be a fair bit quicker and doesn't seem to use quite so much memory.

Not too keen on the default theme though so I've downloaded the Noia 2.0 (extreme) theme, which is a little better.

Stan :)

Feek

25-10-2006, 15:08

Hmm, is it a straight upgrade over the current version?

Daz

25-10-2006, 15:15

It was for me, though the update manager didnt pick it up.

Burble

25-10-2006, 15:17

The update manager is supposed to spring into life sometime tonight IIRC.

Stan_Lite

25-10-2006, 15:19

Hmm, is it a straight upgrade over the current version?

Yes.

Link (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/) to the release notes.

Stan :)

Feek

25-10-2006, 15:28

Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs.

Nasty. I want multiple rows with fixed width tabs.

Daz

25-10-2006, 15:29

I believe there's an extention for that, I'll look when I'm back at my desk.

Stan_Lite

25-10-2006, 15:30

Nasty. I want multiple rows with fixed width tabs.

Wasn't too keen on that bit either. I have 14 tabs open as my home page but only 11 will fit at 1280x1024 :(

Stan :)

Haly

25-10-2006, 15:49

I saw it was out. Not got round to trying it though. Was waiting to see if anyone said there were horrendous problems with it but it sounds good :D

Will

25-10-2006, 16:24

Have they sorted out the memory leak problem? And the other quirk i.e. pushing the " ' " button (apostrophe) sometimes brought up the find function - and scrolling is often crap on it too.

If they've sorted that out I may well go for it - though I've been playing with IE7 and it seems pretty good to me. :embarassed:

Daz

25-10-2006, 16:37

Burble

25-10-2006, 16:38

That find issue was sorted ages ago dude :)

In 1.5.0.7? I still get it occasionally.

Daz

25-10-2006, 16:42

Really? Doze or nix?

I've not seen that since .0.3/4

Burble

25-10-2006, 16:46

'doze. I don't ever remember having that problem on Linux or OS X.

Daz

25-10-2006, 16:54

Wonder if it's profile related. Tried backing up your bookmarks and creating a new profile?

Mark

25-10-2006, 16:59

Not sure what the problem is tbh. :undecided:

I might try FF 2.0 later. When I cba. Also got a NOD32 (Antivirus) trial to download (hopefully it'll kick Norton into touch for good). Going to benchmark it properly to see just how bad things were. :eek:

Burble

25-10-2006, 17:01

It was on a shiny new XP Pro installation that I last remember seeing it.

Daz

25-10-2006, 17:01

It's out but soft masked in portage. There are ubuntu packages for edgy but not dapper as of yet.

Robert

25-10-2006, 17:47

Sometimes this can be a pain for me. It'll start up fine and other times it won't start up. I'll then have to use ctrl+alt+delete and end the firefox task.

:undecided:

Mark

25-10-2006, 17:48

Nuke the Firefox profile and start again (you'll lose bookmarks, extensions, etc. unfortunately).

Flibster

25-10-2006, 18:47

That find issue was sorted ages ago dude :) Memory issues are still here.

IE7 may well tempt me back when it goes gold, but no way am I using an MS beta on a production machine. Gets it's mits everywhere and I value my reliability too much.

IE7 was released as final last week....
It was well publicised...

:huh:

Installed the new FF2.0 this morning...
Uninstalled just after lunch...
Still hate it.

Simon/~Flibster

Daz

25-10-2006, 19:06

IE7 was released as final last week....
It was well publicised...
I neither recieved a security bulletin nor does my WSUS installation appear to know about it. Nor does it appear to be on Windows update :/

Flibster

25-10-2006, 19:23

I've got version 7.0.5730.11 on this machine.

Was officially released on the 18/19th

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx

Simon/~Flibster

Daz

25-10-2006, 19:25

I'll upgrade the main rig then, see if it can tempt me back.

Flibster

25-10-2006, 19:30

It's not bad at all tbh. First full update to IE since 2001...
I've had a couple of issues but nothing we couldn't work around.

Still prefer Opera though.

Simon/~Flibster

Daz

25-10-2006, 19:35

Think Firefox beat Opera to the punch with me. I was sick of IE and Firefox was there, for free, at the right time. Just cant get used to Opera now, feels like Firefox just 'wrong' now I'm used to it.

Haly

25-10-2006, 19:36

I used to use Opera for a while, but then Firefox came out and I just preferred it. Personal taste I guess. :)

Will

25-10-2006, 19:36

One thing I like about IE7 is the "preview" pane of all your tabs - that is a nice little feature. It has a lot of cool little things that are quite nice that Firefox has - it's just nice to have something a bit more reliable :embarassed:

Daz

25-10-2006, 19:38

Down to personal experience I guess. I've not seen Firefox crash since the 1.5 RC's. Well, once, but that was down to me using a silly version of the GPL flash module on one of my Linux boxen. Swapping for the macromedia binaries fixed it no worries.

Treefrog

25-10-2006, 22:08

Ooh, I like this! With the 'Orbit' theme it's even better.

Nice one Daz :)

Desmo

26-10-2006, 10:06

I'm liking FF2 :)

Another thing I found yesterday is an extension called FireFTP. It's great as it opens up an FTP proggy in another tab/window. Works really well on both the PC and Mac :D

Haly

26-10-2006, 10:57

Another thing I found yesterday is an extension called FireFTP. It's great as it opens up an FTP proggy in another tab/window. Works really well on both the PC and Mac :D

That's not because I mentioned it in the Newcastle meet thread yesterday is it? :p

Treefrog

26-10-2006, 13:04

I've just found an unwelcome feature of FF2. When I press Alt+S it opens the History menu instead of Post Reply :(

Mark

26-10-2006, 13:50

That's not clever. I use Alt+S too.

Desmo

26-10-2006, 13:55

That's not because I mentioned it in the Newcastle meet thread yesterday is it? :p
Nope. I found it all on my own :D

Burble

26-10-2006, 14:57

I've just found an unwelcome feature of FF2. When I press Alt+S it opens the History menu instead of Post Reply :(

That'll pretty quickly annoy the hell of me, probably enough to switch browsers if there isn't a way to turn it off.

Daz

26-10-2006, 15:00

I never even knew that existed before now :S

Treefrog

26-10-2006, 15:00

That'll pretty quickly annoy the hell of me
It already is for me :angry:

Edit: Aaaaargh! Just done it again!

Treefrog

26-10-2006, 15:03

I never even knew that existed before now :S
n00b! :p

Oh, sorry, wrong forum! ;D

Stan_Lite

26-10-2006, 15:03

I never even knew that existed before now :S

Nor me :embarassed:

Stan :)

Daz

26-10-2006, 15:04

Doesn't present too much of a problem for me tbh. If I'm going to type a reply I'm going in with both hands, so I can easily tap 'end' to reach the reply box.

Burble

26-10-2006, 15:05

Sorted. Enter about:config in the address bar. Look for ui.key.ContentAccess and change the value from 5 to 4.

Treefrog

26-10-2006, 15:21

Doesn't present too much of a problem for me tbh. If I'm going to type a reply I'm going in with both hands, so I can easily tap 'end' to reach the reply box.
Heh - I didn't know about that. I guess I'm a n00b too then? :)
Sorted. Enter about:config in the address bar. Look for ui.key.ContentAccess and change the value from 5 to 4.
Nice one! Thanks for that Burbs :)

Testing ...

Yep, it now works like I'm used to \o/

Admiral Huddy

26-10-2006, 16:22

I've never used Firefox.. everyone I've spoke to has always moaned about it? Can't really see it's advantage over IE7?

Daz

26-10-2006, 16:26

Some of the old arguments are gone now IE7 is out (tabs being the most common one). I'm used to Firefox now, the new built-in spell checker is a really nice addition, and it's not as actively targeted by exploits like any browser Microsoft comes up with. It's cross platform too so I get the same experience if I'm in either doze or *nix.

Desmo

26-10-2006, 17:05

ctrl+S still works on the Mac to post. I'll be making the config change on hte PC though. Can't do without it :/

Will

27-10-2006, 20:22

How do you make it work with Alt+S to post?

Desmo

27-10-2006, 20:52

How do you make it work with Alt+S to post?

Sorted. Enter about:config in the address bar. Look for ui.key.ContentAccess and change the value from 5 to 4.

;)

Will

27-10-2006, 20:57

Doh! :embarassed:

It's been a long week :(

Messiah Khan

27-10-2006, 21:54

I really much prefer Opera tbh. I can't live without the 'page back', 'page forward' mouse shortcut controls. Although I find myself trying to use them in wondows, IE, Firefox etc as well, then just get annoyed when they don't work. The other thing I like about Opewra over Firefox(Not sure if it can be changed though) Is that if you close a tab, Opera will jump to the tab you were on previously rather than simply jumping to the next tab on the tab bar.

Dymetrie

28-10-2006, 07:36

How do you make it work with Alt+S to post?

Glad you asked this as I only got round to installing FF2.0 last night, didn't post then (went to sleep ridiculously early) and it's far too early for me to be trying to figure out why things aren't working...

Another fix I've just noticed in 2.0 is that when administrating member accounts in phpbb it doesn't automatically fill 'username' with your username.. thus removing the confusion of "But surely I just searched for and found 'Annyllop21'* so why does it have my name there?"

*yes that was the last bot I deleted from the forum I administrate

Pickers

28-10-2006, 09:39

To convert 2.0 to the default 1.5 theme, check out "winestyle"....
I'm going to give the new theme a few days though :)

Feek

28-10-2006, 11:15

The arrow scrolling for tabs is NASTY. I really want my multiple rows.

Apart from that it seems to be fine. Not sure how the spell checker works though, as I spelt a word wrong here and it did nothing.

Stan_Lite

28-10-2006, 11:31

Apart from that it seems to be fine. Not sure how the spell checker works though, as I spelt a word wrong here and it did nothing.

You need to install a dictionary.

The British English one is here (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/) :)

Stan :)

Feek

28-10-2006, 11:43

Thanks honey :)

Stan_Lite

28-10-2006, 11:46

You're welcome dear :)

Stan :)

Feek

28-10-2006, 12:08

I wonder if Von ever walks into the station and says "Morning Super" and gets the reply "Morning Wonderful".

Zirax

28-10-2006, 16:57

gah found something really really annoying, I close tabs by using the X at the top right. Now I have to go to each individual tab and click the X :(

Dymetrie

28-10-2006, 18:57

THE POWER OF FIREFOX COMPELS YOU!!! (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1950/)

spent a long time browsing the extensions today.. hope this is handy Zirax :)

Feek

28-10-2006, 19:20

There's a beta version of the Tab Mix Plus extension available for version 2, much better than the way FF natively handles tabs.

http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3515

Stan_Lite

28-10-2006, 19:55

Nice find Feek - using it now :)

Stan :)

Zirax

28-10-2006, 21:52

THE POWER OF FIREFOX COMPELS YOU!!! (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1950/)

spent a long time browsing the extensions today.. hope this is handy Zirax :)

you beauty! Thanks :D

I'll have a tinker with yours later feek

Daz

29-10-2006, 13:01

gah found something really really annoying, I close tabs by using the X at the top right. Now I have to go to each individual tab and click the X :(
Middle click close tabs ftw!

Mark

29-10-2006, 13:32

Indeed. Or Ctrl+F4 if you're a keyboard freak. :)

Garp

29-10-2006, 16:07

gah found something really really annoying, I close tabs by using the X at the top right. Now I have to go to each individual tab and click the X :(

ctrl+w is your saviour :p