Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early

A number of readers alerted us to the [link removed] day-early [accidental] posting of Firefox version 2.0. At this writing the top page at mozilla.com still doesn't mention its availability. One reader pointed us to [link removed] a mirror and another recommended a comprehensive review of Firefox 2.0, with many screenshots, over at mozillalinks.org. Update by RM: - links above removed at request of Mozilla release people. They asked us to link to this note instead. They're only asking us to wait until Tuesday Afternoon (U.S. Pacific Time) for the official 2.0 download, which isn't long. (Patience is a virtue, etc.)

Nice!

[Anonymous Coward]

Linking to a 5.4Mb file directly on Slashdot. Nice!

I smell a conspiracy

[ZakuSage]

from the let's-slashdot-mozilla dept.

Re:

[Lucan Varo]

Hence the early release. They saw the /. comming from miles away. Not that you can actually look through tubes or anything.

BitTorrent links

[Anonymous Coward]

Official Mozilla BitTorrent site:
http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ [mozilla.org]
(2.0 is not there yet, but use that link when it gets updated)

Unofficial torrents (Website ads are NSFW):
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891929/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_US [torrentspy.com]
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_GB [torrentspy.com]
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)

(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)

Re:

[suv4x4]

(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)

You know, it's not karma "whoring" when you post a useful post. Don't try to put the moderating system up-side-down, because of some ill-understood posting moral considerations.

Re:BitTorrent links

[WilliamSChips]

The new Firefox has a spell checker(one of the first things I disabled). There are spelling differences between US and UK English.

Re:BitTorrent links

[kennygraham]

Oh yeah I actually new that. I like the spellchecker because I can think like a college grad but I spell like a 4 year old.

Seems not even the spell checker will help you.

Re:

[jZnat]

With all the Americans making fun of the word "colour" and the non-Americans wanting their version of English to remain pure, forcing either locale is just a flamewar waiting to happen.

Re:BitTorrent links

[Ed Avis]

Yeah, in the British version of Firefox cookies are referred to as 'biscuits'.

Re:BitTorrent links

[1u3hr]

The American one searches the normal Amazon and Yahoo

So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?

Payback!

[BeeBeard]

It's payback for Mozilla's actually trying to assert its trademark rights!

OFFICIAL STATEMENT

[Anonymous Coward]

Firefox 2 has not yet been officially released. Please be patient. We still plan on launching Tuesday, October 24th in the afternoon pacific time. Linking to anything other than getfirefox.com [getfirefox.com] or mozilla.com [mozilla.com] hurts us, our volunteer mirror network, and our ability to effectively serve up and guarantee availability of Firefox. Thank you! -- [e-mail]

Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT

[Kelson]

And yet, somehow, it seems like with every Firefox release, someone decides to link Slashdot straight to an FTP site before they've finished pushing everything out. Firefox 2 beta 2 [slashdot.org], Firefox 2 beta 1 [slashdot.org]... I'm sure you can find more, but I don't feel like searching further.

Given this track record, what would it take for Slashdot to do a little checking the next time someone submits a "Firefox X released!" story?

HA HA HA

[Nimey]

The /. editors will never live up to their job titles. They usually don't read the links themselves.

Re:

[jonasj]

They have to, so the mirrors can mirror it before the official release

Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT

[TCM]

Obviously, mirrors should get different access than the public. You can't put something in plain sight and then complain if people notice. This is stupid.

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank you kind sir, I'm glad you noticed.

I also wanted to note that people don't know enough about me and my life outside the Mozilla foundation.

My name is Farouk Bakoh, a Solicitor/Notary public, and very active in the legal practice in Nigeria. I am also an in-law to the late President, General Sanni Abacha. Now General Abacha is dead, and Mohammed the first son is facing a lot of persecution due to his involvement in anti pro democracy activities during the rule of his late father. Also there are alleged

Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb

[WilliamSChips]

There is no such thing as a mebibyte. A megabyte is always 1048576 bytes. You also never use megabits when referring to file sizes, only when referring to the speed of a network connection. A megabit is 1000000 bits but it's rarely seen not per second.

Re:

[dotgain]

Sorry, the SI guys were in before.

A MEGA-anything is a million. It has nothing to do with RAM manufacture, a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.

Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb

[AJWM]

a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.

A filesize has lots of reasons to be measured in power-of-two quantities. If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes and which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.

(The SI guys can take a hike. The computer industry has been using kilo, mega, etc for powers-of-two since they got away from decimal computers almost 50 years ago now. It was the disk drive marketing guys who started pre-empting that so that they could advertise their eg 95.37 MB drives as 100 MB.)

Re:

[Jherek Carnelian]

If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes

I don't know what, if any, drives use power of ten sector sizes, but I guarantee you that no modern drive uses powers of 2 for its sector size. They often use it for sector payload size, but the actual sector consists of many more bits than just the payload.

For example, a DVD sector has a payload of 2048 but a total length of 2064 which includes 4 byte ID, a 2 byte IES, 6 bytes of CPR MAI and a 4 byte EDC. But, if you take it ev

Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb

[Lord Ender]

(The SI guys can take a hike. The computer industry has been using kilo, mega, etc for powers-of-two since they got away from decimal computers almost 50 years ago now. It was the disk drive marketing guys who started pre-empting that so that they could advertise their eg 95.37 MB drives as 100 MB.)

It's people like you who cause entire space missions to fail. "Mega" has meant a power of TEN for much longer than "the computer industry." Besides, computers are used outside the computer industry these days.

Get with the times an learn the difference between Mi M Ki K Gi G B b etc..

Any decent engineer would loathe ambiguity. You think "mega" should mean different things depending on context? What are you, a Perl programmer?!? DEMONS BE GONE!!

Re:

[Lord Ender]

No. Numbers do not mean different things depending on context. That is a terrible idea and and anyone who thinks that is a good thing should be shot.

kilo = 1000. universally.

how stupid would it be to say ten = 10, except when we are talking about industry X, then ten = 12? terribly stupid. kilo = 1000, kibi = 1024. if you hate the word kibi, then just write 1024. end of story. no context mystery. no ambiguity.

Re:

[UncleFluffy]

Sorry, the SI guys were in before.

A MEGA-anything is a million. It has nothing to do with RAM manufacture, a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.

It's because, as everyone knows, data is slightly compressible. If you define the height of a single bit as 1 arbitary unit, when you stack 1024 of them on top of each other, the weight of all those bits squashes them down so that the stack is only 1000 units high. As soon as you pull one out of the stack to look at it, it sprin

Damnit!

[Anonymous Coward]

And I just finished emerging 1.5...

Re:Damnit!

[Virtex]

And I just finished emerging 1.5...

Yeah, me too. And the worst part is that I started emerging 1.5 right after it came out!

So that's how they do it

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

The Firefox team are assured never to suffer 0-day exploits by making -1-day releases. Clever, clever...

Re:

[gardyloo]

0 == 1, you know, so -1 == 0. For large values of -1, of course.

Re:So that's how they do it

[gardyloo]

Is this some sort of "There are only -3 types of people" joke?

Re:So that's how they do it

[acidrain]

They could also be the first to have a -1 day exploit, which would look even worse.

Re:

[dan828]

Bah. Microsoft did that a long time ago.

Re:

[dextromulous]

It does not have your history... but it could if it tried a brute-force attack. Neat trick, btw :-D.

The javascript is at http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/attackapi/build /lib/AttackAPI/HistoryDumper.js [gnucitizen.org] and it works by making an 'a' tag, then checking if it was visited or not. So it is able to see if a link has been visited before, but it can't dump your history in a normal fashion. I bet it probably isn't exactly a feature... but hardly something to be paranoid about.

I'll wait thanks

[ronanbear]

It's not on software update either yet. I think I'll wait until firefox wants to upgrade and then I'll do one last check that all my extensions have been updated.

Re:I'll wait thanks

[dvice_null]

It's not officially released. Slashdot could do more harm than good by releasing these news early. See these responses what harm it does for releasing news before official release:
http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/11/looking-at-ftp-sites- for-mozilla-releases/ [ilias.ca]
http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/04/looking-at-ftp-sites- for-mozilla-releases-part-ii/ [ilias.ca]

What is amazing is that Slashdot seems to do this with every release. What kind of editors we have here?

Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast...

[PrintError]

It beat itself to the internet!

Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast...

[Anonymous Coward]

I must be the super fastest then. I beat myself to the internet every day.

Language

[ostehaps]

Sweet move to link to the en-GB version. That's the flavour I like!

Re:

[Mr. Sketch]

Here is a link to the US version:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.e xe [mozilla.org]
Linux Version:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.tar.gz [mozilla.org]
Everything else you should be able to find here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/ [mozilla.org]

Re:

[Kangburra]

Everything else you should be able to find here:

Can't find a Debian version... odd! ;-)

Re:Language

[Xemu]

Why not use bittorrent for it's best legal use: downloading firefox! [thepiratebay.org]

Re:Language

[The Raven]

To support Firefox. Why should I take the Mozilla Org's expensive bandwidth when I can torrent it, and use the mostly free bandwidth of 100 other peers.

I'll upgrade if

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

1) it quits crashing all the time with the mplayer plugin when playing videos

2) it finally has a sensible cookie blocking interface, à-la Mozilla, and not that atrocious settings tab that I have to scroll through to find the site I just blocked cookies from that I need to re-enable.

Otherwise the current 1.x version works well enough for me.

Re:

[Crazy Man on Fire]

Try the "Extended Cookie Manager" extension. It is just what you need!

Re:

[Crazy Man on Fire]

Here's the link [mozilla.org]

Funny Related Links

[Amazing Quantum Man]

Related Links: "Compare prices on Mozilla"

Which release group gets credit?

[Anonymous Coward]

And where is the /crack directory? I guess they put a serial in the nfo.

Ubuntu Edgy

[Rik Sweeney]

Hopefully this will be ready and waiting for me in Ubuntu Edgy when I upgrade in (hopefully) a few days.

Re:

[Red Alastor]

It is, they already have the RC in.

Re:

[c_forq]

It is, I've been using Edgy and Firefox updated today. By the way, I got Beryl (formally compiz) running on Edgy a LOT easier than on Dapper - if that matters to you at all - and Automatix 2 already supports Edgy.

Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added

[yurik]

There is now Firefox 2 support enabled on all Wiki*edia sites. To use, navigate to http://en.wikipedia.org/ [wikipedia.org] (or any other language/project), click the search engine selector button in the upper right corner, and click "add wikipedia". The added bonus is that auto-suggest is also working - as you type you search, it will provide a list of page titles that begin with the typed letters.

One note - the timeout is set to 500ms, which is not too long (especially when the entire slashdot visits wiki). To make it longer, open firefox_install_dir\components\nsSearchSuggestions .js, and edit the "_suggestionTimeout: 500" line. Something like 2000 works fine for me.

--Yurik / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik [wikipedia.org]

Re:

[ender81b]

And never forget that you can type wiki $something in the address bar of Firefox (including earlier versions) and have it bring up either the wikipedia entry that term or, if it can't find that, the closest match.

My favorite feature ever.

Also -- let's not forget Portable Firefox has the RC3 version out (which, from what I can tell, is Firefox 2.0 in everything but name) here [portableapps.com]

My impressions of 2.0? It's got some nice tweaks, it feels faster, it uses about 25 meg less Ram on my windows machine and about 30 meg

Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added

[c_forq]

It has been changed to 'wp $something' by default for a while now, but it is super easy to change to wiki (also as of a couple versions back the default 'dict $something' changed from reference.com to answers.com).

Difference between 2.0 RC3 and 2.0 final?

[BeeBeard]

Are there any differences between the two? I'm already running the RC3 ebuild and I'd really like to avoid upgrading if possible.

md5sums

[jonasj]

dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0.tar.gz
dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz

don't think there's been that many changes :-)

Ill wait

[Blackbrain]

Pfffttt, no thanks. Let me know when IceWeasel is ready.

/. needs to update

[Com2Kid]

Page scrolling in FF2 in journals is really slow with the new comment system turned on.

All in all, seems like a fairly good release. A bit slower here and there though, but pages appear even faster than before. Well that could very well be a UI illusion, but whatever, it seems to work. :)

pls wait 24 hours

[jhermans]

For crying out loud ! Can't we just leave those Mozilla folks alone for a day, so that they can prepare the release. They have to post 38 different executables, and do a very last check to see if they actually work.

word to this

[thdexter]

At this writing,
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ [mozilla.com]
and
http://www.getfirefox.com/ [getfirefox.com]
and
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ [mozilla.com]
all only say Firefox 1.5. Come f-ing on, slashdot, after having jumped the gun several times on freebsd [slashdot.org]. do they really need emails from everyone that produces software saying "only announce things when they're really announced" before checking a single website or two to see if something's officially out?

English US Version

[KermodeBear]

The link above is to the English-GB version. For your convenience: US English [mozilla.org] installer, Win32.

Do something about extensions

[bogaboga]

Let the Open Source community do something about Firefox extensions. For those we hope to attract with extensions, they will find that very few are available for version 2.0! I have only seen ForecastFox that will work on the 1.5.x and the 2.0 series of Firefox.

When we tout the advantages of Open Source, the availability of extensions on time, is not something we should fail on. After all, there have been a number of betas and release candidates released before this major one. Tests could be done on thos

Re:

[berzerke]

...I have only seen ForecastFox that will work on the 1.5.x and the 2.0 series of Firefox.

Well, I have been running 2.0 since rc2, and I have all of the following extensions working: Adblock, Adblock Filterset.G updater, Forecastfox, Linky, and McAfee SiteAdvisor. While I realize this is a far cry from all the extensions, these are all the ones I use regularly. I'm quite sure the list of working extensions is far bigger than what I've listed.

might wanna check your extensions first

[Tumbleweed]

Tab Mix Plus is not FF2-compatible yet; the author says a new version should come along within a week or so. This is proving mighty irritating. I used both the regular close-tab button *and* the per-tab close buttons; now I only have the per-tab ones. Gah. Add features, folks, don't REMOVE them. :(

Other than that, it's definitely faster (except for one area - switching between already-loaded tabs is MUUUUCH faster in IE7. And no, that's nowhere near enough to get me to use IE7).

And is themeability now gone,

Re:

[Tumbleweed]

The ability to add themes is now found in Tools > Add-ons under the Theme section.

Awesome, thanks; I definitely didn't notice that! I prefer the old method of separate links for Tools>Extensions and Tools>Themes, but oh well, as long as it's still there.

For the sake of non-Windows users

[sakusha]

Please don't make the first link in a post a blind link to a Windows executable.

Re:

[dreamer-of-rules]

For the sake of Windows users, please don't ever link directly to an .exe hosted on someone else's website.

Re:For the sake of non-Windows users

[Overly Critical Guy]

For the sake of Dean Hachamovitch, IE7 general manager, please do not post any links to any Firefox executable on any platform.

Re:

[WilliamSChips]

For the sake of your own sanity due to jokes made about your name, change your name from "Hachamovitch".

A buncha extensions don't work

[gelfling]

But FF2.0 goes out and tries to find them and apply them automatically so it tells you right away what's no longer working. So far FasterFox and MediaWrap and Google Send2Phone don't work. I haven't worked with it enough to discover what it is that DOES work better. I hope general IEishness and compatibility are improved.

New version

[Dan East]

The latest version is quite nice. The integrated spell checker is worth it alone (I had been using an extension, but having it integrated is so much nicer).

I thought I might could do away with Tab Mix Plus now, however it was quickly apparent that the extension is still a must. As a developer I'm too used to switching through multiple documents by history, not by some arbitrary linear order. So with Tab Mix Plus I can easily CTRL-TAB back and forth between a couple specific tabs, even if there are a dozen other tabs open. So I'm waiting for the author(s) to update it because it is no longer compatible.

Happily, the other extensions I use all had upgrades for 2.0. That was my biggest gripe about FireFox in the past. Especially a previous upgrade that I think was security-related. The version went from like 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.3 and suddenly 90% of my extensions weren't compatible. That was unacceptable, especially with such a seemingly small change in version number.

Dan East

Re:New version

[gad_zuki!]

>The latest version is quite nice.

As someone who is used to 20+ tabs at one time, I disagree. The new tab limitation is a pretty lousy UI change. Its like Mozilla and MS are trying to outcrap each other in the UI department. At 1024x768 I get 10 tabs. Now I have to scroll tabs (!) or use the tab selector (ugly hack) to see the rest. I know there's a config item I can change to restore 1.5 like behavoir but I shouldnt have to do this in a browser that advertises the advantages of tabs. The old system worked fine: tabs would dynamically shrink as you add more. If a user wants to have nice big tabs they know not to open more than 8 or so. Those who dont need to be reminded that the green slashdot favicon is actually Slashdot.org could open 20-30 tabs. I paid for this RAM and I like using it. Now everyone gets big tabs no matter what.

Also, why are extensions called "add-ons" now?

Its not a day early

[Tama00]

Its tuesday here in Austalia, for all you who dont know, the main developer for Firefox lives in New Zealand!

SO it is ontime, not early.. you people of slashdot are just slow.

Re:Its not a day early

[Tumbleweed]

Does the en-NZ version render all the text upside-down?

Only in the northern hemisphere.

Software Update

[Despero]

I really wish it was out on Software Update already. That, in my opinion, was the best new feature in Firefox 1.5, and many more software programs should adopt it.

Re:Software Update

[BZ]

It'll hit Software Update when it's actually been released.

Snappy and uses less memory

[Sarusa]

One thing not really mentioned in the preview is that they definitely seem to have the memory under control finally. I've had up to 30 tabs open (only a dozen now) and have been using it all day and it's only using 75MB of memory. FF1.5 would be hovering around 250MB after the same use.

It also feels much snappier in general, if only because it's not sprawling all over the paging file (I don't know what other speed tweaks it has).

All my extensions except undoclosetab updated automatically (and that's built in now) so that was probably the smoothest upgrade I've ever had. Though I use the LittleFox theme and I was on version 1.5, which looked very strange in FF2.0. But after a manual 'look for updates' for themese it found LittleFox 1.7 which looks great.

So far I'm very pleased with it.

Firefox 3.0

[RobertF]

Meh. As a web developer, I'm more anxious for the release of Firefox 3.0. Firefox 2 uses the same rendering engine as 1.5, they just wanted to compete with IE 7. Bah! I want a new Gecko!

From the press release

[BorgCopyeditor]

Some people have voiced their concern that this release is not worth the 2.0 moniker. I however don't understand the point. If numbers are to be believed, this version is as incremental as 1.5 was for 1.0

This is an exceptionally bad argument. In version-land, 1.0-->1.5 != 1.5-->2.0. This is where things like "version 1.13" come from. It's simply not a decimal representation. So, unless there's some compelling change, whether it be to functionality and UI or to the underlying code base, there's no justification for bumping the major version number. (Chessmaster 9000 is, of course, a special case.) This is in no way to denigrate the efforts of the development team.

How to get rid of the hideous tab bar gradients:

[karmaflux]

0. Make a working directory. I called mine "fff." Make two directories in it: 1 and 2. Now you'll have ~/fff/1 and ~/fff/2.
1. Copy the /chrome/classic.jar file from the OLD firefox version to your ~/fff/1 directory. For example, on Slackware it's /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/chrome/classic.jar
2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory.
3. Now copy the /chrome/classic.jar file from the NEW firefox install to ~/fff/2.
4. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/browser.css into ~/fff/2/skin/classic/global/browser.css. Just overwrite the file, because it sucks.
5. From ~/fff/2, you can just do zip -f classic.jar. -f is freshen; zip will report that it updated the one file.
6. Copy ~/fff/2/classic.jar back to where you found it in the NEW firefox install. I had mine in /usr/lib/firefox2/chrome/.
7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!

PLEASE stop linking to unreleased builds

[BZ]

See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2006/10/the_a ntirelease.html [mozillazine.org] for the Mozilla build team's take on articles like this one.

Re:

[BZ]

The problem is that it takes finite (and nontrivial) time to propagate the builds to all the mirrors. Otherwise there'd be no problem putting them up at the same time as the release announcement.

Re:

[Agelmar]

They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

So clearly the FF team couldn't have just magically propagated the builds to all t

IE7 Makes Firefox Irrelevant

[thelifter]

This is a shameless attempt on the part of Mozilla to stave off the crushing mindshare defeat that Microsoft is about to hand out with Internet Explorer 7. With improved support for stuff and things, IE7 promposes to make Firefox 2 obsolete by nightfall on it's release date.

IE7 will ship with the patented Cure For Cancer toolbar and embedded network optimization that makes tastefully photographed adult literature download 50% percent faster than with the dinosaur browser.

And that's not all. MS didn't forget about you developers. IE7's javascript debugger provides error messages that are 83% more ambiguous than with Firefox.

It's a well known fact that FireFox's only real market growth is in the UK where people hate fire, but like foxes. Therefore, Firefox can only achieve 50% marketshare in the UK maximum. Elsewhere in the world where fire and foxes are both despised, the Firefox market is limited to people who like dinosaurs which is just 10 year old boys named Kyle.

Just kidding.

Firefox Rules.

This old exploit still crashes v2.0.

[antdude]

See this demonstration [coredump.cx] (do NOT go here unless you are willing to crash your Web browser). It still crashes Firefox v2.0. This is related to this old security isssue [mozilla.org]. :(

Re:Huh?

[eln]

I, for one, welcome our new meme-crushing overlords.

Re:Huh?

[LordEd]

In soviet Russia, memes crush you!

300 Memes Crushed in Sri Lana Tsunami!

[BeeBeard]

Woo woo fake trolls!

Re:Huh?

[jpardey]

1) crush meme 2) ? 3) profit!

Re:Huh?

[WilliamSChips]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of memes...

Re:Huh?

[Stormwatch]

Stop crushing the memes, you insensitive clod!

Re:Huh?

[Werkhaus]

OMG!!! Memes!!!!

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Won't anyone think about the memes?

Re:As pointed out in MY story submission...

[eipgam]

Heaven forbid you actually learn to spell words correctly! :)

Re:

[Spokehedz]

For words that I don't use that often, it's a lot easier than putting it into google and letting it tell me what I meant.

Re:As pointed out in MY story submission...

[Rik Sweeney]

Or else you'll end up doing your neighbour a favour by changing his tyre

To a different colour?

Re:

[FnH]

more like:
Bugger, chap. Not everybody uses windows.

Re:Quick Question;

[Sarusa]

It's built in!

Options -> main -> startup -> when firefox starts -> show my windows and tabs from last time.

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Re:New feature worth having (resume session)

[Alcari]

Yes, and If you hit a site which causes the browser to crash, you can restart it with every site you've had opened ready to go and......oh wait......

Re:

[pilkul]

about:config, set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to true

While we're at it, set browser.tabs.closeButton to 3 to revert the tab close buttons to 1.5's behavior.

Not sure about the search button, but for that you can download an extension that behaves in a way you prefer.

Re:Feeling Lucky Google Search Result change!! No!

[DoorFrame]

Ha, ha! Fixed it myself.

For anyone curious:

Go to about:config (type it into the location bar)
Select: Keyword.URL
Change the value to this: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Luck y&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q= [google.com]

All is well.