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Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early
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on Mon Oct 23, 2006 04:50 PM
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A number of readers alerted us to the [link removed] day-early [accidental] posting of Firefox version 2.0. At this writing the top page at mozilla.com still doesn't mention its availability. One reader pointed us to [link removed] a mirror and another recommended a comprehensive review of Firefox 2.0, with many screenshots, over at mozillalinks.org. Update by RM: - links above removed at request of Mozilla release people. They asked us to link to this note instead. They're only asking us to wait until Tuesday Afternoon (U.S. Pacific Time) for the official 2.0 download, which isn't long. (Patience is a virtue, etc.)
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Many readers wrote in to make sure we all knew that Firefox 2.0 has officially been released on Mozilla.com, unlike yesterday's early preview. Here are builds for all languages and Win/Linux/Mac, and the release notes.
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Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
I smell a conspiracy (Score:5, Funny)
BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ [mozilla.org]
(2.0 is not there yet, but use that link when it gets updated)
Unofficial torrents (Website ads are NSFW):
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891929/Firefox_2_0_
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)
(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
Seems not even the spell checker will help you.
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:4, Funny)
So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
(http://membled.com/)
OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Informative)
Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/ | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @05:30PM)
Given this track record, what would it take for Slashdot to do a little checking the next time someone submits a "Firefox X released!" story?
HA HA HA (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday August 29 2006, @06:44PM)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.ajwm.net/amayer/)
A filesize has lots of reasons to be measured in power-of-two quantities. If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes and which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.
(The SI guys can take a hike. The computer industry has been using kilo, mega, etc for powers-of-two since they got away from decimal computers almost 50 years ago now. It was the disk drive marketing guys who started pre-empting that so that they could advertise their eg 95.37 MB drives as 100 MB.)
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Funny)
(http://127.31.33.7/)
It's people like you who cause entire space missions to fail. "Mega" has meant a power of TEN for much longer than "the computer industry." Besides, computers are used outside the computer industry these days.
Get with the times an learn the difference between Mi M Ki K Gi G B b etc..
Any decent engineer would loathe ambiguity. You think "mega" should mean different things depending on context? What are you, a Perl programmer?!? DEMONS BE GONE!!
Damnit! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Damnit! (Score:4, Funny)
(http://quantumvista.com/)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
300 Memes Crushed in Sri Lana Tsunami! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 30 2007, @08:29PM)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
(http://anticirc.coconia.net/)
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Huh? (Score:4, Funny)
So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'll wait thanks (Score:4, Informative)
http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/11/looking-at-ftp-sites
http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/04/looking-at-ftp-sites
What is amazing is that Slashdot seems to do this with every release. What kind of editors we have here?
Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:4, Funny)
(Last Journal: Tuesday January 13 2004, @11:20AM)
Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:5, Funny)
Language (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.xenu.net/)
Re:Language (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.google.com/)
I'll upgrade if (Score:4, Interesting)
2) it finally has a sensible cookie blocking interface, à-la Mozilla, and not that atrocious settings tab that I have to scroll through to find the site I just blocked cookies from that I need to re-enable.
Otherwise the current 1.x version works well enough for me.
Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/)
To a different colour?
Funny Related Links (Score:5, Funny)
(http://www.geocities.com/theLICC)
Which release group gets credit? (Score:5, Funny)
Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:5, Interesting)
One note - the timeout is set to 500ms, which is not too long (especially when the entire slashdot visits wiki). To make it longer, open firefox_install_dir\components\nsSearchSuggestion
--Yurik / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik [wikipedia.org]
Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:4, Informative)
md5sums (Score:5, Informative)
dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz
don't think there's been that many changes
Ill wait (Score:4, Funny)
pls wait 24 hours (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.bluesweb.org/)
word to this (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Monday January 19 2004, @01:01PM)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ [mozilla.com]
and
http://www.getfirefox.com/ [getfirefox.com]
and
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ [mozilla.com]
all only say Firefox 1.5. Come f-ing on, slashdot, after having jumped the gun several times on freebsd [slashdot.org]. do they really need emails from everyone that produces software saying "only announce things when they're really announced" before checking a single website or two to see if something's officially out?
For the sake of non-Windows users (Score:3, Informative)
Re:For the sake of non-Windows users (Score:5, Funny)
New version (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://dexplor.com/)
I thought I might could do away with Tab Mix Plus now, however it was quickly apparent that the extension is still a must. As a developer I'm too used to switching through multiple documents by history, not by some arbitrary linear order. So with Tab Mix Plus I can easily CTRL-TAB back and forth between a couple specific tabs, even if there are a dozen other tabs open. So I'm waiting for the author(s) to update it because it is no longer compatible.
Happily, the other extensions I use all had upgrades for 2.0. That was my biggest gripe about FireFox in the past. Especially a previous upgrade that I think was security-related. The version went from like 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.3 and suddenly 90% of my extensions weren't compatible. That was unacceptable, especially with such a seemingly small change in version number.
Dan East
Re:New version (Score:5, Interesting)
(Last Journal: Saturday October 26 2002, @11:59PM)
As someone who is used to 20+ tabs at one time, I disagree. The new tab limitation is a pretty lousy UI change. Its like Mozilla and MS are trying to outcrap each other in the UI department. At 1024x768 I get 10 tabs. Now I have to scroll tabs (!) or use the tab selector (ugly hack) to see the rest. I know there's a config item I can change to restore 1.5 like behavoir but I shouldnt have to do this in a browser that advertises the advantages of tabs. The old system worked fine: tabs would dynamically shrink as you add more. If a user wants to have nice big tabs they know not to open more than 8 or so. Those who dont need to be reminded that the green slashdot favicon is actually Slashdot.org could open 20-30 tabs. I paid for this RAM and I like using it. Now everyone gets big tabs no matter what.
Also, why are extensions called "add-ons" now?
Its not a day early (Score:5, Informative)
SO it is ontime, not early.. you people of slashdot are just slow.
Re:Its not a day early (Score:5, Funny)
(http://tumbleweed.smugmug.com/)
Only in the northern hemisphere.
Software Update (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.last.fm/user/theclosestcall)
Re:Software Update (Score:5, Informative)
(http://web.mit.edu/bzbarsky/www/)
Re:Quick Question; (Score:4, Informative)
Options -> main -> startup -> when firefox starts -> show my windows and tabs from last time.
Re:New feature worth having (resume session) (Score:4, Informative)
Snappy and uses less memory (Score:5, Informative)
It also feels much snappier in general, if only because it's not sprawling all over the paging file (I don't know what other speed tweaks it has).
All my extensions except undoclosetab updated automatically (and that's built in now) so that was probably the smoothest upgrade I've ever had. Though I use the LittleFox theme and I was on version 1.5, which looked very strange in FF2.0. But after a manual 'look for updates' for themese it found LittleFox 1.7 which looks great.
So far I'm very pleased with it.
Firefox 3.0 (Score:4, Informative)
(http://neal.venditto.org/)
From the press release (Score:3)
Some people have voiced their concern that this release is not worth the 2.0 moniker. I however don't understand the point. If numbers are to be believed, this version is as incremental as 1.5 was for 1.0
This is an exceptionally bad argument. In version-land, 1.0-->1.5 != 1.5-->2.0. This is where things like "version 1.13" come from. It's simply not a decimal representation. So, unless there's some compelling change, whether it be to functionality and UI or to the underlying code base, there's no justification for bumping the major version number. (Chessmaster 9000 is, of course, a special case.) This is in no way to denigrate the efforts of the development team.
How to get rid of the hideous tab bar gradients: (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.madleet.net/)
1. Copy the
2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory.
3. Now copy the
4. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/browser.css into ~/fff/2/skin/classic/global/browser.css. Just overwrite the file, because it sucks.
5. From ~/fff/2, you can just do zip -f classic.jar. -f is freshen; zip will report that it updated the one file.
6. Copy ~/fff/2/classic.jar back to where you found it in the NEW firefox install. I had mine in
7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!
PLEASE stop linking to unreleased builds (Score:5, Informative)
(http://web.mit.edu/bzbarsky/www/)
Re:Yep its great (Score:4, Informative)
(http://scorch.quickfox.org/)
IE7 Makes Firefox Irrelevant (Score:5, Funny)
IE7 will ship with the patented Cure For Cancer toolbar and embedded network optimization that makes tastefully photographed adult literature download 50% percent faster than with the dinosaur browser.
And that's not all. MS didn't forget about you developers. IE7's javascript debugger provides error messages that are 83% more ambiguous than with Firefox.
It's a well known fact that FireFox's only real market growth is in the UK where people hate fire, but like foxes. Therefore, Firefox can only achieve 50% marketshare in the UK maximum. Elsewhere in the world where fire and foxes are both despised, the Firefox market is limited to people who like dinosaurs which is just 10 year old boys named Kyle.
Just kidding.
Firefox Rules.
This old exploit still crashes v2.0. (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://aqfl.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 09 2003, @01:16AM)
Re:But still the dang extra button chrome crap (Score:3, Informative)
While we're at it, set browser.tabs.closeButton to 3 to revert the tab close buttons to 1.5's behavior.
Not sure about the search button, but for that you can download an extension that behaves in a way you prefer.