Firefox 2.0 RC3 Released 238
midkay writes "Firefox 2.0 RC3 has just been released. The release notes cover all the changes since the first release candidate, but RC3 appears to have a new Windows installer and more security in the extensions aspect, among a few other things."
Re:Ungrateful Bitching (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:WHy a new installer for Windows? (Score:4, Interesting)
2.0rc3 is 2.0 under cover (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Ungrateful Bitching (Score:3, Interesting)
Just a small correction: in general, Flash is not used to view average websites, but subaverage websites.
Re:Ungrateful Bitching (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm currently running Firefox 1.5.0.7 w/21 extensions. I have 20 tabs open, many with memory-intensive pages with large amounts of content and/or scripting. Windows XP Task Manager reports 90MB for firefox.exe (which I consider to be perfectly normal). I close 16 tabs and memory usage is down to 56MB.
Since there seems to be a fairly small, tech-oriented group who routinely complain about Firefox's memory usage I'm inclined to believe it may be the result of an extension or non-standard configuration. I have used the browser since it was called Phoenix and have never experienced these memory issues.
Re:FLASH - saved the universe! (Score:3, Interesting)
How about Adobe?
You do realize the Flash plugin is a 3rd-party piece of closed-source software, correct? And that the IE Flash plugin is different from the Netscape/Mozilla Flash plugin?
Re:Ungrateful Bitching (Score:3, Interesting)
Wikipedia Support for FF2.0 Added (Score:2, Interesting)
Wikipedia will provide suggestions to your search as you type in the search box. To enable, visit any Wiki-site (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/ [wikipedia.org] ), and click the Engine Selector button (to the left of the search box). Click "Add Wikipedia". Afterwards, when you start typing in the search box while having Wikipedia engine selected, titles will automatically appear. Sometimes a FF restart is needed for the feature to begin to work. If you have any questions or suggestions, leave me a comment at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yurik [wikipedia.org] . At some point more relevant search will be implemented as well.