Firefox 2 Released

[Darren]

I'm surprised someone hasn't mentioned this, then again we aren't exactly nerds on here

Anyway Firefox 2 has been released, not a huge amount of difference other than a couple of cosmetic looking things, spell check is nice that's for sure and will no doubt come in very hand.

Anyone noticed anything ubber different to the previous version?


Cheers
Darren

[hakhawk]

downloading now,

http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews...been-released/

see there for changes.

normally i grab it as an update, but it says it will show as an update in the next few weeks

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ to get it

[matty88]

I have it, I like the spellcheck feature, but I don't like the skin very much....

[Charg'd]

downloading it now, seems like a few decent upgrades, oh well, time will tell

[Emackulation]

Yeah, I downloaded it at work yestybut then forgot to do the same for home, untill this thread reminded me ofcourse! Thank you!!!!

[Charg'd]

make sure garth gets this,

[J_D]

Been running the release candidate for about a week now. I like how it opens links in a new tab.

[Bax]

Haven't downloaded it yet. You guys know you can get new themes. iFox is what I've been using since ages ago, lovely theme.

Middle click or Ctrl Click- and Ctrl W are my new friends.

Ctrl Click and Middle click open the link in a new tab. Ctrl W closes the tab.
Ctrl L to get into the address pane.
Ctrl 1-9 etc chooses your tab from open ones.

[VS Omega]

I'll stick to Mozilla SeaMonkey, need that email integration

[matty88]

Just out of interest, I've noticed that TV shows like Today Tonight etc when they promote a website, they ALWAYS use IE. Given that it is so insecure and slow, I'd like to see everyone use a more secure browser. My IE at home has 3 toolbars and whatnot, whereas the same sites I visit Firefox doesn't have any. IE 7 has too much of the same code for my liking, so it's Firefox all the way for me!

[KingDiamond]

Been using it for a few days.

Some of my extensions don't work

[Emackulation]

This site should help you with the extension issues, along with themes and other things.
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/

[pro_gmh]

changed over to ff years ago, never looked back. (only 1 year actually)

[brownie82]

Ok now i woulndt mind giving it ago. How do i go about installing it and getting rid of IE??

[Darren]

Download the .exe, once completed double click on it and follow the prompts.

I wouldn't worry about removing IE though, I've come across a couple of sites which simply won't work with Firefox so keeping IE there just in case is a good thing.

[hakhawk]

leave ie installed, it is kind of a part of windows, gets messy when its not there, just go here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ click the download it button. double click on the file, let it install and have fun. it even lets u import favourites n stuff from ie

[Jimboss]

just make firefox your default browser, and you can even get the FF add on which opens the page in IE (incase of compatibility issues with firefox).

[vr_owner]

the only thing i noticed different is the report web forgery buttons in tools but im not sure if they been there for awhile

[Darren]

After hours of use of the new version I've noticed one very bad thing which didn't happen in 1.5.0.7.

I can be happily browsing around and bang firefox dies as in everything remains up on the screen but you can't seem to do anything at all other than 'force exit' and reload which seems to be ok.

I've had a rotten time with computers over the past month so it could be just me but doing a quick google search I'm not alone.

[Jimboss]

After hours of use of the new version I've noticed one very bad thing which didn't happen in 1.5.0.7.

I can be happily browsing around and bang firefox dies as in everything remains up on the screen but you can't seem to do anything at all other than 'force exit' and reload which seems to be ok.

I've had a rotten time with computers over the past month so it could be just me but doing a quick google search I'm not alone.

The funny thing is i had a very similar thing happen to me with 1.5.0.7, but i don't seem to be having the problem with new one.

[J_D]

After hours of use of the new version I've noticed one very bad thing which didn't happen in 1.5.0.7.

I can be happily browsing around and bang firefox dies as in everything remains up on the screen but you can't seem to do anything at all other than 'force exit' and reload which seems to be ok.

I've had a rotten time with computers over the past month so it could be just me but doing a quick google search I'm not alone.

Mine had the same problem using 1.5 and now im using 2 it hasnt happened since.

[Bax]

I still don't like how I cannot use my touchpad to slide in mozilla, but I can in IE, word and everything else, I was meant to install Gestures and I did, but nothing is working still.

Stupid thing, ALT - S to send the posts doesn't work anymore either. So at the moment I'm wishing I didn't upgrade.