Firefox 2.0 Officially Released

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.

Too Many!

[Wellington Grey]

Wow! The third firefox 2.0 article in 24 hours. Boy, I can't wait to read all the insightful comments people will leave. Again.

-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]

Re:Too Many!

[i_should_be_working]

I'm sure there will be plenty of insightful comments in the next little while..

Just wait here while I go, umm, write some..

CTRL-C CTRL-V
CTRL-C CTRL-V

Re:Official 64 bit build?

[NMerriam]

God knows you'll need to harness the awesome power of those extra 32 bits to browse web pages at an acceptable speed.

We need 64-bit Firefox ASAP, how else can we open web sites with more than 4GB of content?

Re:Keith Curtis 2.0 Officially Released

[Anonymous Coward]

And for those who think "African" means "black", you need to take a look at an Algerian, an Afrikaans speaking Boer, and an Egyptian...

Or an albino monkey.

Why not 2.1?

[Anonymous Coward]

OK it's one thing to call yesterday's release "2.0" -- after all it was a big improvement from 1.5.

But this today is really just an incremental release from yeseterday's. Calling it "2.0" again is a slap in the face to all of us loyal users who downloaded it yesterday and felt like we were getting something special.

I think that today's release should be called "2.1" or maybe "2.5" (or even "3.0"). What's the point of even having a version number if they make two releases with the same version? Come on guys, this is why open source can't compete in a real marketplace.

Re:Same binary as yesterday....

[dtzWill]

Apparently the firefox team didn't get the memo about RC's from microsoft...

Great for add-ons!!

[Nahor]

We need 64-bit Firefox ASAP, how else can we open web sites with more than 4GB of content?

And more importantly, with that much accessible memory, this will allow us to use Firefox for four continuous hours instead of three before we need to restart it because of a leaking add-on!

Don't hit me, I'm just kidding, I never had any memory issue with FF, I swear!

Bah Dum. Shhhhh

[zippthorne]

"Using Bittorrent is a little redundant."

Congrats on your double pun!

Inline spell checking is great! Except...

[slightlyunruly]

...the British dictionary doesn't know about the word 'Firefox'...!

:)

I agree

[missing000]

All this two.oh talk is bunk. This is clearly more than a point level release though, so I suggest a new naming convention. We should lobby to have it named after a defunct car. This release is called Yugo. Next up is Chevette followed by the Pinto, the Nino and the Santo Maria. Oops, got off track.

Let's just take the current system and make it fractional. This release should now be known as 1 and 5/8. No decimal notation anymore. I can't wait for 33 and 1/3!

OK, name it whatever you want, just don't call it vista :)

Re:Too Many!

[l0b0]

Do you realize you would have been modded troll and insightful if you'd typed C-x r k C-y?