Firefox 2.0 Officially Released 405
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.
Needs more colours (Score:5, Informative)
Once again...
If you find the Firefox 2 theme too bleak, I've got your fix right here [davidnaylor.org].
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Hehe nice cover (Score:2)
If you're like me and you've already been running RC3, then you've got it already.
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Lock and Load
This imperative phrase originally referred to the operation of the M1 Garand Rifle, the standard U.S. Army rifle of WWII. Its meaning is more general now, referring to preparation for any imminent event.
To load a Garand, the bolt would be locked to the rear and a clip of ammunition loaded into the receiver. The command lock and load was immortalized by John Wayne in the 1949 movie The Sands of Iwo Jima: "Lock and load, boy, lock and load."
There are earlier uses of the command reversed, load and lock. This command, primarily used on firing ranges, referred to the loading of a single round into the Garand (or into another weapon). In this case, the lock referred to striking the bolt handle with the heel of the hand to ensure it was fully closed and locked into place.
And you want to mess with something the Duke said? Shame on you.
it IS "Lock and load" (Score:5, Informative)
My deer rifle is a 30-06 Remmington slide action. I'm a southpaw and a lefthanded bolt was more than I could afford when I got the gun (used): the slide action is ambidextrous. It has a 4 round clip. I've owned it for 31 years now. I don't use it much any more, but at one time it helped stretch the grocery budget.
I learned to shoot from a couple guys who had grown up hunting in the 1930s and who learned to shoot all over again when in the service in World War II. Both saw more action on the Pacific islands than they would ever talk about.
The litany they taught included these steps (done just before the first steps of the hunt)
I doubt that either of those guys saw any of the John Wayne war movies (they liked his westerns though). But I'm pretty sure neither one would have thought "Lock and load, son" was wrong or laughable. It is the way it was done.
Sorry about the rant. But this argument among people who have never had to worry about extracting a jammed live round from a rifle because the shooter hadn't locked the clip into place before trying to load the chamber has grown tiresome.
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The long guns the RAF used in WWII were descendants of the .303 Lee Enfield, not the .30-06 Garand. Very different designs with different strengths and weaknesses-- I'd expect a difference in the standard operating procedure. The Lee Enfield guns were designed around working the bolt action quickly without taking your eye off the target and they excel at rapid fire accuracy. The .30-06 semi-automatics were designed for good accuracy with less training and less field maintenance.
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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
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Tom
I'll wait... (Score:2)
... until the automatic update installs it for me.
With all the fake^Wmistaken announcements, it's the only way I'll be sure it's out.
And, of course, I'll be reasonably certain most of my extensions will work with 2.0.
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For those intereseted (I'm guessing none of you), they are: Ablock, Adblock Filterset.G Updater, All-in-One-Gestures, DownloadThemAll!,ForecastFox,IE Tab, and Web Developer (toolbar).
Also, since the http://www.mozilla.com/ [mozilla.com] is linking to the 2.0 downloads it seems safe to assume this is the official release.
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That's all well and good... (Score:2)
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Too Many! (Score:5, Funny)
-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]
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Re:Too Many! (Score:5, Funny)
Just wait here while I go, umm, write some..
CTRL-C CTRL-V
CTRL-C CTRL-V
MOD PARENT REDUNDANT x 2! (Score:2, Insightful)
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2.0? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:2.0? (Score:5, Insightful)
(although would it be so hard to add the cool click-and-drag margin resize features for printing that IE7 has?)
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Personally I think RSS feeds need better integration. The live bookmark idea sucks, I can't stand it because I have to open up each book mark to look at it. I rather get too much info in a second then have to take minutes to search all my feeds, I don't use many, but something makes me not want to trust live feeds.
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The smart thing to do for the Mozilla people would have been to make FF easy to use in corporate environments, an area where IE have been strong. That means having support for easy netw
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Re:2.0? (Score:5, Informative)
Part of 2.0 release it appears is also not just contained in the browser code itself but in Mozilla's Add-ons website which gets launch when you click the "Get Extensions" link in the Add-ons dialog. Add-ons or extensions are now grouped together by functionality as opposed to being grouped together by popularity, ratings, etc.
Re:2.0? (Score:5, Informative)
First, Firefox 2.0 is supposed to be a "0.5" upgrade from 1.5; that is, approximately as much of a change as 1.5 was compared to 1.0.
Now, Firefox 2.0 offers these noticeable features, among others:
- Updated UI
- Anti-phishing
- Tab close undo
- Session restore
- Form spell checker
- Microsummaries
- JavaScript 1.7
- Loads and loads of bug and stability fixes, including improved memory usage
I'm really not sure why this couldn't be a 2.0 release? What else should it be? 1.6 would be way to minor for its features anyway. Heck, this is the scale e.g. IE 5 -> 6 was on IMHO, if not more, and then that was an incremental step of 1, not 0.5 as Firefox 2.0 is.
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Anyways, IMO even if Firefox 2.0 is, as many people have claimed, as much of an upgrade from 1.5 as 1.5 was from 1.0, than no, it doesn't deserve to be called 2.0. If they didn't think the last upgrade
I agree (Score:3, Funny)
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
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It looks out of place on the Mac (Score:4, Insightful)
I hope someone comes up with a decent Aqua skin, but it still doesn't make any sense to force users to resort to skinning just to make a program fit with the default system interface. The Mac build of Firefox should look like a Mac program by default; skinning should be for those people who want to make it look like a pink christmas tree or whatever.
Please do not bother mentioning Camino: it lacks support for Firefox extensions, which are the only reason I have for using Firefox.
Re:It looks out of place on the Mac (Score:5, Insightful)
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Disabling it requires mucking with dotfiles, and I appreciate that the capacity is there.. but that's not the point. Running firefox under a given platform should cater to that platform's conventions. I don't want it to be the same under all platforms, I want to be the same with MY platform.
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Fasterfox (Score:2, Informative)
Not so fast..err..fox! (Score:5, Informative)
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Same binary as yesterday.... (Score:5, Informative)
Today's "official" release (CRC32): 4F3CF1D7
I guess not much has changed since RC3...
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Don't wait for automatic update (Score:5, Informative)
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Thank you for making this an optional update.
IE7 will be distributed as a "high-priority update" in a few weeks. This is a very aggressive schedule [1] -- for many users, a "high-priority update" is effectively the same as a "mandatory update".
I wouldn't complain if Microsoft waited 6 months before making IE7 a high-priority update. But they really should allow more then a few weeks of 'real world' tests--- early adopters of th
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(yes i tried it myself a bit but got distracted..)
But seriously, even for automatic updates, it would certainly take a load off the servers. (Perhaps falling back to http if it's not available through a firewall or whatever.) Bittorrent's not restricted to only files over 500MB, it works fine for smaller files too. Azureus, for example, uses this technique (somewhat obviously, I guess.)
Bah Dum. Shhhhh (Score:3, Funny)
Congrats on your double pun!
TabMixPlus (Score:5, Informative)
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/ [mozilla.org]
In the meantime, you can install a pre-release version of the extension here:
http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3515 [garyr.net]
To get rid of the close buttons on all tabs, go to about:config and set
browser.tabs.closeButtons
to 0 if you only want the close button on the active tab
or to 0 if you want the close button only at the right hand side of the tab bar.
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(where 0 = 3)
Buggy Release (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
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I've found a couple of bugs myself but nothing as drastic as you seem to have encountered.
If you were coming up from a late 1.5ish version of firefox, your profile folder will contain a backup of your entire bookmarks file.
Best advice before performing a major update of anything is backup your data before you start.
Find out where your profile is stored on your machines and find out how to backup for the future.
As for my bug, I've got "tabbrowser preferences
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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.
Bit over the top (Score:2)
OK, you're trying to entice us to write about our 24 hrs. of experience, thank you it works fine :).
But I still have to decide whether I like the close X in every single tab.
I've used this installer script to get it onto my Kubuntu and Xubuntu boxes and it worked flawless.
http://everythingelse.wordpress.com/2006/07/15/how to-install-firefox-20-bon-echo-in-ubuntu/?namhuy.o rg [wordpress.com]
What *does not* work is getting a Dutch version of IE7, it's just not yet avai
Best. Feaure. Ever. (Score:5, Informative)
Then I discovered The Feature(tm). A website popped up a window, rather than a new tab, with no ability to control the size and whatnot. I discovered a button in the upper right corner that says "open this window in default browser". Clicking it opens that window in a new tab in my open browser.
Thanks to whoever added that feature. Brilliant idea.
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It wasn't a popup ad, and the vast majority of those get blocked.
It actually was spawned from FoxyTunes (which is a great little plugin). In any case, sometimes I want the popup in a new window, adn sometimes I don't. This offers me a choice, and I love having more options and choices.
Take control of your windows! (Score:5, Informative)
Enter "about:config" in to the Address bar.
Filter on "dom.disable_window".
Make sure every resulting knob is set to "True".
This prevents JavaScript-spawned windows from having their title bar, address bar, tool bar, menu bar, status bar, scroll bars, or other decorations removed/disabled. Now I can move, resize, or otherwise twiddle with all the windows in my browser, the way I should be able to.
Me to web developers: They're my windows; get your grubby JavaScript off them!
Official 64 bit build? (Score:5, Interesting)
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We need 64-bit Firefox ASAP, how else can we open web sites with more than 4GB of content?
Great for add-ons!! (Score:3, Funny)
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!
64-bit support? (Score:2, Insightful)
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yesterday's FF2 tab close button problem solved (Score:5, Informative)
The problem: a theme I had installed (which has since been updated today).
So, if you experience any UI weirdness, you may want to switch over to the default theme and restart to see if that makes a difference.
Now that I have my Tabs Mix Plus, I'm doin' okay with FF2.
Shame about the non-multi-threaded UI, though. Maybe someday.
Not stable enough on my mac (Score:3, Insightful)
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Do you have any extensions?
I had a similar problem earlier today and yesterday (though I don't use a Mac). I'm not prepared to say 100% that it was the cause, but at least so far, I have yet to have the freezing issue recur since disabling the official Google Toolbar extension. If you have that installed, you may want to try disabling it and seeing if you have any better luck.
The question on everyone's minds... (Score:2)
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Still no preference to disable tabs (Score:2, Insightful)
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Cookie Monster (Score:5, Interesting)
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-molo
New config options (Score:2)
The last thread mentioned browser.tabs.closeButtons and browser.urlbar.hideGoButton. Any others?
Gripe #1 (Score:5, Informative)
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Kudos #1 (Score:2)
about:config (Score:2)
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browser.tabs.closeButtons
A little buggy in Linux and in Windows (Score:2)
Otherwise its quicker to start in Linux and uses alot less memory. Especially when using lots of tabs.
Attention Mac Users (Score:3, Informative)
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Faster (Score:2)
Complaints- no bittorrent download (Score:2)
Amazing release, mind you. Great work, to all the contributers, in all the many ways they contributed to bringing Firefox to this quality of project.
Why not 2.1? (Score:2, Funny)
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 gu
Make inactive tabs less visible (Score:2)
Add the following to your userChrome.css file [mozillazine.org] to make inactive tabs less visible and the active tab stand out a bit more:
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Re:Woot (Score:5, Informative)
The download page picks a random mirror. Linking directly to the file would put all of the load on a single mirror.
no, it would not:
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They are both working fine on FFx 2.0 and have been for a while.
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And yes, more language support is always better.
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Oblitus sum me prima persona uti. Et vere habuimus conformationes vocis ordinarias. Ave Caesar!
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