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.

Buggy Release

[hibiki_r]

Am I the only one getting all kinds of bugs in the new release?

The search engine box starts blank, and the 'get more search engines' link does nothing.

Right clicking and selecting 'new tab' opens a blank tag that doesn't react to the location bar at all, and refuses to close by clicking on its button, right click + close, or hitting 'close all other tabs'

It lost every single one of my bookmarks, even though it kept most extensions intact.

I don't want to sound like a troll, but is this really the quality we want in a new release?

Official 64 bit build?

[nu-gundam]

Will mozilla ever release an official 64 bit version of firefox? Not that I really care that much since I am usually running the 64 bit trunk build that I compile weekly anyways. But supposedly one of the reasons that Sun won't release a 64 bit java plugin for firefox is because there is no official 64 bit firefox. I am hoping that by Mozilla releasing an official 64-bit firefox Sun will finally get a 64-bit java plugin out.

Cookie Monster

[Beardo the Bearded]

You can no longer block 3rd-party cookies.

Re:Cookie Monster

[JTek]

I too noticed that the option for blocking 3rd-party cookies was gone. I can't find any mention of this in the release notes. Are you sure they haven't changed the default to block 3rd party cookies? Has somebody tested this?

Re:Hehe nice cover

[tomstdenis]

no, lock refers to LOCKING THE BOLT CLOSED after loading a round in the internal mag or breach.

Pick up a bolt-action rifle [circa when "lock and load" came about]. It's a hollywoodism, see this [wordorigins.org] page about half way down.

You "switch" fire modes, you don't lock them. And frankly I always hear it as "turn the safety on" or off, etc... not "lock the safety" because that doesn't make any sense.

Tom

Re:Buggy Release

[Talennor]

Same thing for me. And bookmarks were broken. I thought I'd lost them, but when I couldn't make any new ones I realized that it just wasn't doing the bookmark thing at all. Running the install a second time cleared up some things for me.

Also got an error about not having a function in js3250.dll at one point. Reminds me very much of the pre-RC1 releases. Remember those that didn't really handle upgrades without an uninstall and install (and even that was buggy).

Oh well, maybe we'll see 2.1 next week.

Re:Scroll lag is killing me

[Anonymous Coward]

I never had this problem with any of the 1.5 versions. I don't think my computer has gotten any less powerful than it was this morning.

Re:How come 1.5 doesn't update to 2.0?

[Despero]

Firefox 2.0 won't come through Software Update for a few weeks, and even then, it will be optional. Software Update was made mainly for stability and security updates, not major feature additions.

So if you want Firefox 2.0 anytime soon, I suggest that you head on over to www.getfirefox.com [getfirefox.com] and grab it for yourself.

I know, it is kinda disappointing for me too. I just loved the automation of it all.