Firefox 2.0 debuts Tuesday afternoon. (10/24/06)

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Proco @ Oct 25 2006, 10:52 AM) [snapback]338011[/snapback]</div>

I don't think so. I also had been using RC3. I then downloaded and installed the "official release" and it appears to be the same build as RC3 (released on 10/16).

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(eagle33199 @ Oct 25 2006, 02:52 PM) [snapback]338138[/snapback]</div>

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

check out ie tab.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Oct 25 2006, 08:16 PM) [snapback]338334[/snapback]</div>

That's what I thought. I got the no updates available message, but wanted to be sure it wasn't because 2.0 was tagged as separate from RC3. Looks like I've been on 2.0 for a while now here at work. Time to update at home.

Now if I can only convince my wife to stop using IE ....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Oct 23 2006, 03:02 AM) [snapback]336668[/snapback]</div>

What's the point? If the O.S. already contains tons of space dedicated to the Microsuck browser, you have to add another browser. Most folks cringe at the thought of adding more storage, just to add redundant programs. It's a crying shame that the Fed's can't force Bill Gate's minions to remove internet explorer like Windoze used to be . . . a ver long, long time ago.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(hill @ Oct 26 2006, 12:37 PM) [snapback]338644[/snapback]</div>

What's the point? To not be using an inferior product, mainly. Unless you have an old machine or store a lot of video, the size of Firefox shouldn't be a problem. It only takes up about 22MB on my laptop.

Plus it runs on both my XP machine and my Linux box.

Try it. You might be surprised.

 

Did you update to FF2 from FF1.5 or from IE?

If from FF1.5 do a search in your "my documents" folder on the c drive for "bookmark.htm" or "bookmarks.htm" I dont remember which at the moment. Your bookmarks will be in that html file.

If from IE you bookmarks are in your favorites folder in the my documents.

 

ok when i click on links in emails, i used to get a new window opening which i prefer. how do we get back to that, as it stands now, it opens in another tab which my mouse does not have the option to toggle between (alt-tab is programmable on my mouse ctrl-tab is not) i have the browser set to open a new window but it doesnt seem to work, whats up?

 

My bookmarks remained, but I've lost the ability to change the font size with CMD-Scroll, and View->Text Size->Increase/Decrease do not work.

Also, the close-tab "X" disappears from all but the active tab when there are too many open tabs, so I have to click on a tab to make it active before I can close it. I liked being able to leave the mouse pointer in one spot and close multiple tabs by clicking several times.

What did not change is that some sites (including some Mozilla sites) have overlapping text, which is therefore impossible to read. Perhaps because I changed a parameter somewhere to make the text in web pages larger, because I could not read the tiny default size?

 

The biggest inconvenience to me is the loss of email icon on the desktop. It does not seem to be available to reinstall from the customize area. Did this happen to anyone else?

 

not rendering a page correctly is a problem all browsers have. usually F5 or refresh will clear that up. its a coding problem with certain websites that does format the page correctly while loading. sometimes the page straightens out when the page is loaded, sometimes it doesnt.

as far as setting tab preferences, i have it set to a new page to open a new window and it still does not do it.

to toggle from one tab to another, ctrl-tab as opposed to alt-tab is needed. my programmable mouse has alt-tab as an option for one of the 5 buttons i have and it is the 2nd most used button beside the left click. its nice because it can be done while clicking on a multi-link email, i alt-tab back to the email, in this fashion, i can open several windows in seconds.

being left-handed, keyboard shortcuts are usually anything but. so ctrl-tabbing or alt-tabbing requires me to take my hand off the mouse. not my preferred method of doing things.

if there is a specific setting to make all pages open in a new window, let me know. the intuitive approach is not working

 

For those of you that dislike the new theme/skin, here is a link to a theme that will give 2.0 the 1.5 look.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3479/

 

So, I tried it...

I like the spell checker.

I'm not so crazy about how it draws the page before it's finished loading enough information to layout the page. IE holds off the layout of tables until it has enough information to determine the size of each of the table cells. FireFox draws tables incrementally, as it receives data. I know this is one of it's "features", but on some sites it's really distracting to see the page jump, warp, and rearrange several times as it's loading.

Additionally, it doesn't work properly with my stock broker's web site. (Or my stock broker's site doesn't work properly with FireFox, depending on your perspective) So, I'm sticking with IE, but I might keep FireFox around for PriusChat and the spell checker.

Also, I'm not quite sure why "Tabbed Browsing" is such a great thing. I typically open several browsers at the same time, and the "Tabs" for me have always been the Task Bar at the bottom of the Windows Desktop. The "Tabbed Browsing" is just an unnecessarily new way to do what I already did and ends up confusing me because I go to close a page by closing the window and end up getting that damn dialog box warning me that I'm really closing multiple tabs. Of course, the new IE has Tabbed Browsing now too, so I'm just going to have to get used to it. It sure seems like a "solution looking for a problem".

 

tabbed browsing is good especially when you want to save several pages from the same site. or on a certain subject.

for example....just saved this morning...

interested in the CANVIEW for the 2006 that Norm is about to release. it requires a touch screen to be added, so i googled and saved three different sites under one link, one bookmark but opens 3 different tabs.

but its like everything. if you have a use for it good... if not, well maybe you will tomorrow