Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday

An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 2.0 for Tuesday, says the Seattle PI. They give a quick recap of some of the new features, and discuss the ongoing IE vs. Fox debate." From the article: "Version 2.0 also improves on the tabbed-windows interface that Mozilla innovated and that Microsoft introduced for the first time last week with IE7, its biggest upgrade since 2001. Analysts said IE7 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, but the big question is whether it will stem Firefox's growth at Microsoft's expense. Firefox's share of the browser market has grown to 9.8 percent of the U.S. market this month, from 2.9 percent in October 2004."

Tuesday?

[dvice_null]

Tuesday? The day when security patches for IE are released?

Re:Tuesday?

[The MAZZTer]

Maybe they're saying Firefox is the ultimate security patch for IE? :^)

Re:Tuesday?

[electrosoccertux]

Firefox _is_ the security patch for IE.

Re:YAY!

[From A Far Away Land]

With the built in spell checker, I expect about 12% of the web's users to look smarter by at least 50% on Tuesday, with the number expected to grow as Firefox spreads.

But where can I get my IceWeasel 2.0 ? -- NT

[zeenixus]

But where can I get my IceWeasel 2.0 ?

Re:Tuesday?

[Dracos]

Why not? People used to say that Service Pack 6 for NT4 was RedHat.

Bad release date

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad Firefox 2.0 release is going to be shadowed out by the release of Frozen Bubble 2.0 coming up on the same week :^)
Teaser here [dailymotion.com]. Rumors has it the game will be networked..

Re:Tuesday?

[wertarbyte]

Indeed. Internet Explorer is a fine browser, I use it all the time on a new windows installation - to download Firefox.

Re:YAY!

[Julia Cameron]

With the built in spell checker, I expect about 12% of the web's users to look smarter by at least 50% on Tuesday, with the number expected to grow as Firefox spreads.

U ar right.

Who cares?

[swillden]

Let me know when IceWeasel 2.0 is out. Now *that* will be a great browser!

Re:Two of my prayers for FireFox Improvement

[Threni]

> Wait for Firefox 3, when the rendering system will be given a major overhaul.

And that's just *nothing* compared with all the goodness we're putting into Firefox 4! Why do it now when you can wait a few years?

Re:Tuesday?

[CastrTroy]

Myself, I can't even bring myself to start IE, so I download my copy of firefox with the command line ftp client for windows.

Re:innovation?

[Bronster]

'Yes, firefox is indeed greater than women. Can women block pops up for you? No. Can Firefox show you naked women? Yes.'

Your signature is just so... um... I won't use that I word that Alanis poisoned. No, no, I won't.

Re:innovation?

[BarkLouder]

I've had tabbed browsing in my file cabinet for 50 years!!!!

Re:innovation?

[erroneous]

Int(Rnd*UBound(tabs))

Re:The elephant in the room...

[freeweed]

I can routinely see Firefox over the course of a day or two of remaining open consume upwards of 900K

Yeah, 640K should be enough for any web browser!

Re:innovation?

[neersign]

For me, women create pop-ups. Some times it can be quite embarrassing, but most of the time we both enjoy those pop-ups.