Firefox 2 (Read 7360 times)

Bubba · October 18, 2006, 10:06:27 am

I'm running the RC3 version on all computers now and it's working well, apart from a few extensions not being compatible.

Recommended.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html

BenF · October 18, 2006, 12:26:07 pm

I generally use Firefox as well and although I know little about these things, I like it too. Seems to work nice and quick and I like the tab browsing.

butters · October 18, 2006, 12:58:19 pm

Bubba actually referring to the new soon to be released Firefox 2 that is going through the final stages of testing (RC = Release Candidate or something similar) not version 1.5.0.7 that I suspect you are using.

bluebrad

vivahate · October 18, 2006, 01:58:47 pm

my firefox has started to go really slow, so have began using Safari again, its really good, but misses out on the lack of tabbed browsing/being able to see multiple tab histories

Bubba · October 18, 2006, 02:11:11 pm

Quote from: bluebrad on October 18, 2006, 12:58:19 pm

Bubba actually referring to the new soon to be released Firefox 2 that is going through the final stages of testing (RC = Release Candidate or something similar)

Yes, I was referring to the upcoming Firefox 2.

unclesomebody · October 18, 2006, 02:18:02 pm

To those you once ditched opera in favour of firefox; You should check out opera again. I am on the fence, but my bro who knows way more than I do says opera is the one. He ditched opera for firefox but has now returned to opera. I'm still shocked to see people using IE.

Bubba · October 18, 2006, 02:27:47 pm

Apparantly if you compare both Opera and Firefox "out of the box" then Opera is a clear winner. But once you load FF up with the extensions you want, there is nothing to choose between them.

I'm happy using FF like this - you get a good but fairly basic browser to start, and then you just add in the extensions you want. That way you don't have a whole slew of stuff that's unnecessary.

Johnny Brown · October 18, 2006, 03:28:57 pm

I tried opera for about 1 time. It's wack, unless you're running a massive screen it just clutters it up with crap.

underground · October 20, 2006, 10:21:42 pm

Well, I just installed RC3 and things seem to have improved- we're back to fast loading of pages, which I thought was perversely related to me moving to 8mb max broadband and using a modem/router.

This is all a bit subjective however, so I will persevere and see if it's any good. The only problem I seem to have (maybe with tabbrowser) is being unable to specify a homepage; I just get an untitled tab in the new tab.

Bubba · October 20, 2006, 11:24:31 pm

I set it to restore my last browsing session.

Only real downside is that the bbcode extension hasn't been updated yet, and I use that pretty heavily.

Control freak · October 23, 2006, 11:59:22 pm

Firefox 2 has been released

Its not been officially announced but theres a link to it from Slashdot

Bubba · October 24, 2006, 08:37:14 am

Mozilla aren't happy about that - read the edited /. page

I installed it anyway.

Bubba · October 26, 2006, 09:21:01 am

Here's a useful guide for tweaking Firefox 2 config parameters:

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php

Does CTRL-U for "view source" work for anyone else - won't work for me...

unclesomebody · October 26, 2006, 09:54:41 am

Is the tab mix plus extension working with FF2? From what i've read, the tab support isn't all that good with FF2.

Bubba · October 26, 2006, 09:58:18 am

Quote from: tab mix plus developer

I REALIZE THAT FIREFOX 2 IS GOING TO BE RELEASE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24. A NEW VERSION OF TAB MIX PLUS IS GOING TO BE RELEASE SHORTLY AFTER THAT, IN LESS THAN A WEEK. PLEASE BE PATIENT, FOR NOW YOU CAN TRY THIS VERSION EARLY.

"this version" refers only to the en-us build, so in a week you should be ok.

Extensions always take a few weeks to catch up with the releases.

Tab functionality is pretty good as standard in this version, anyway.

account_inactive · October 26, 2006, 09:59:03 am

More importantly, if I install the new version will it eat all my bookmarks?

The last update that I did has been really unstable for some reason

Bubba · October 26, 2006, 10:01:12 am

Didn't affect mine.

A really useful extension is Foxmarks.

It allows transparant synchronisation of your bookmarks across multiple computers on a network, and also will store your bookmarks so you can access them from anywhere in the world.

squeek · October 26, 2006, 10:02:41 am

Bubba: Ctrl+U works for me in version 1.5 for viewing source. Maybe the website you're on, or some extension you have installed is grabbing the keystrokes and not passing them on? I have this problem with a shortcut key on website which grabs the key combination and uses it for it's own shortcut.

Edit: It works on version 2.0 too.

Bubba · October 26, 2006, 10:06:07 am

Might be an extension clash because it doesn't even work on this site.

butters · October 26, 2006, 10:12:09 am

Quote from: unclesomebody on October 26, 2006, 09:54:41 am

Is the tab mix plus extension working with FF2? From what i've read, the tab support isn't all that good with FF2.

Not officially released yet but if you go to: http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3515 it is available there - I seem to remember it being a bit of a hassle getting it installed yesterday so you might have to right click and save it and then install it from Firefox.

bluebrad

7lbs overweight · October 31, 2006, 08:13:30 pm

Quote from: Bubba on October 26, 2006, 10:01:12 am

A really useful extension is Foxmarks.

Bubba · November 01, 2006, 06:59:52 am

Quote from: gruff on October 30, 2006, 11:20:37 pm

I was having trouble getting the SuperdragAndGo extension working properly with FF2. But this guy seems to have sorted a fix...yey!

http://mozilla.code65536.com/

Cheers Gruff, it's always been one of my favourite extensions.