Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives 351
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has released Beta 2 of its upcoming Firefox 2 browser for developer review. It is being made available for testing purposes only. The release contains a number of new features, as well as some enhancements to look and feel. DesktopLinux.com has posted a list of the changes along with a few quick screen grabs. Apparently, the download can be found on Mozilla's ftp site."
One question before I try this out... (Score:4, Insightful)
I might consider it... (Score:2, Insightful)
Tabs will be broken (Score:5, Insightful)
Does it still hog memory? (Score:5, Insightful)
More like opera? (Score:3, Insightful)
On some level, it's nice, but the one thing I prefer about extensions is that their feature/fix rate is fairly more frequent than Firefox's. It will be interesting to see where Firefox is 5 years from now.
Re:Solution. (Score:5, Insightful)
We're talking about a difference of perhaps a tenth of a second, but of such microscopic units of time are human-factors decisions made. Interfaces are all about developing habits, and things that make it hard to form habits interfere with smooth operation. Maybe the new interface would make different and better habits; maybe not. I didn't think so, but YMMV.
cookies (Score:2, Insightful)
Yawn (Score:2, Insightful)
I repeat...
YAWN!!!
Why can't a god damned browser do what it is supposed to? JUST FUCKING BROWSE???
Re:Does it still hog memory? (Score:3, Insightful)
Plus, no memory leak bug or reimplemented widget controls (I have an operating system that provides those natively, thanks).
Re:This is INCORRECT (Score:1, Insightful)
Seriously,
I keep asking ... (Score:3, Insightful)
(Yes, 'Gah.' I went there.)
Re:Tabs will be broken (Score:1, Insightful)
What the hell kind of way is that to change such a simple setting?!
More features? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Does it still hog memory? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm a web programmer and we run a site that supports opera 7+, IE5+, anything Gecko, Safari 1.2+. Opera is a bitch when it comes to writing javascript. Let me count the problems (BTW this is for the latest version):
1. Opera hates innnerHTML. So generating options for a select list and then setting it using innerHTML means opera doesn't work.
2. Opera doesn't like generated elements and doesn't treat them in the same way as elements that were part of the page. For example if you add a select and some options to a page using javascript, Opera will not let you set any of the options as selected.
3. Visual consistency. Opera just doesn't have it between versions.
Opera has cost me I'd guess about 10 hours sleep this week.
Re:Does it still hog memory? (Score:3, Insightful)
That'd be nice if not for the fact that isn't true, and very very obviously isn't true on OS X. Run through this checklist:
I could go on for quite a while here, but by now the point should be pretty clear.
Re:Does it still hog memory? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Does it still hog memory? (Score:3, Insightful)