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Official link to direct download of 2.0 release for US http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0&o s=win&lang=en-US

Looks like it is there now?

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/

Does anyone know if it's possible to get rid of the little drop-down thingy that lists all the tabs?

This: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/421/

tends to fix extension incompatibility issues. Most extensions really are compatible; they just have 1.5 as the highest version supported. That extension lets you modify the maxversion with a single click in the extension manager, "fixing" the incompatibility.

Of course, YMMV, but Bookmarks Synchronizer, TinyURL creator and Flashblock (the extensions that broke for me) work fine when I "Make compatible".

-Z

No Tab Close Button extension

From the review of FF2: Tab Tweaks.

I've also found that this extension works fine with FF2: Tab Minus.

Small,and does the job perfectly. This was my single-biggest hassle with FF2. I do not understand how quasi-randomly moving the location of an item I use ALL the time is supposed to make things more efficient. Especially when you've opened up a bunch of images or documents in separate tabs and want to quickly scan through them looking for someting. Your eyes have to bounce around the screen, finding the stupid close button.

The old mechanism seemed to work better for that: put your mouse on the close button, and now you can focus on the *data*, not finding the button over and over... With the extension, you don't have to choose: they're both avaiable. Works for me.

They are still called extensions, Add-ons is the name of the new manager for both extensions and themes. I think it comes from the Firefox Add-ons site.

I am a bit disappointed about how tabs work now too, but the changes are probably for the best. Scrolling the tab strip with my mouse-wheel was I nice discovery. Too bad it's still not easier for non-developers to customize the interface. Opera lets you change the preferences through a user-friendly dialog, but in Firefox you're required to manually type in about:config, then "browser.tabs" and then not be confused with various programming terms.

For myself, I changed browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to something small so it behaves like before 2.0 and browser.tabs.tabCloseButtons to 0 (only ever displays a close button on the active tab). I'm also thinking of adding some CSS to my userChrome.css to have tabs with system appearance again.

You may not have any idea about this one, but I figure I'll ask anyways. In IE6, a tag was required in the html to enable standards-compliant mode (which still wasn't, but that's beside the point). Why was this not enabled by default?

What you're talking about is the DOCTYPE declaration. If you want to write standards-compliant code, you should be testing it with the W3C Validator, which will give you a warning (with a link to an explanation) if you fail to include a DOCTYPE declaration.

If you don't want to write standards-compliant code, you probably want your site to look the same as it did in IE4, which means you don't want the browser to behave in a standards-compliant way. So, IE7 and IE6 and Firefox will all fall back to a "quirks mode" which attempts to guess what the HTML author meant, instead of following the standards. If this didn't happen, the majority of web sites would break, and users would blame the browser, not the web site.

For all those Australians out there: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3099/

Thanks, but I'll wait. Am writing this comment using Firefox 2 RC3. Am really happy the way its working so far and will gladly wait a few more hours and receive my new browser via automatic update. I guess I just want to be sure that I'm counted as a Firefox user. I mean, come on, its the market share and the numbers that make M$ sh*t their pants right? and this is Slashdot right? So....we can kinda give them some real numbers for their release figures. I mean, if you simply MUST have Firefox 2, go and download RC3 and then just let it update itself in a few hours.

Quite a few search engines here..
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/search-engines/
just click

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/

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.

See this demonstration (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. :(

Official Mozilla BitTorrent site:
http://bittorrent.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
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_GB
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)

(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)

I think it would help Wikipedia editors a lot more if we could finally do search (and replace) in text areas. The bug was filed and fixed, yet somehow the code didn't find its way into production.

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.e xe

Use the Winestripe theme

I maintain a firefox Theme, Orbit Grey.

Like many of my fellow theme developers, I'm very busy. Perhaps instead of complaining that the extensions are out of date, you could open up the source (it's just a jar file of css), convert the format to 2.0, and if you find any bugs, fix them? I'd be happy to include your fixes/updates in my theme and give you credit.

That's the great thing about open source. It's all out there, and if you want, you can update it. The whole reason I support Orbit Grey is that the previous version went unsupported by the author. But I'm a volunteer like everyone else, and I made no promises to be on time with Mozilla's release schedule. If you don't like it, you're more than welcome to fix it!

However, I expect that you too may be too busy to convert the theme to version 2.0. If this is true, no worries, I'll be updating my theme in the coming days. I could still use your expertise in the following areas described on my site:

1) Medium sized buttons (artists, PLEASE send me an email) -- I have the buttons, working on integrating them now.

2) Theme the help menu (0.8.0)

I know this sounded like a shameless plug, and it kinda is, but it's annoying to hear people complaining about how the extensions where out of date when I've recieved 0 emails in the past 2 years for my theme with code fixes. People like to complain, but VERY FEW are willing to actually help. We're just volunteers (with lives) and our time is limited.

Just got it from their ftp server.

ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox /releases/2.0/

source
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/10/23/firefox/in dex.php

One reason I love firefox is the plugins https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?app=firefox& appfilter=firefox&sort=downloads

with these add-ons, You have the ability to allow javascript per site, block flash, block scripts, right-click and create a tinyurl, a swtch to TOR button and even an IE tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

If you want to compete with firefox (stop laughing ;-), try putting up api's so that we can add the features we want

-JP

One reason I love firefox is the plugins https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?app=firefox& appfilter=firefox&sort=downloads

with these add-ons, You have the ability to allow javascript per site, block flash, block scripts, right-click and create a tinyurl, a swtch to TOR button and even an IE tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/

If you want to compete with firefox (stop laughing ;-), try putting up api's so that we can add the features we want

-JP

Note that the link is for the en-GB version. A lot of Slashdotters may prefer the en-US version.

(Note that I haven't actually tested that file, since I'm on a Mac right now; I just changed the URL and made it a link for all you lazy people. If you have problems with letting me karma whore, mod me funny; I want this link to be visible, so I'm keeping the karma bonus.)

Here's the link

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

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
Linux Version:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.tar.gz
Everything else you should be able to find here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/

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
Linux Version:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.tar.gz
Everything else you should be able to find here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/

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
Linux Version:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.tar.gz
Everything else you should be able to find here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/

You should probably point out it's not been officially released yet. You know what some people are like. ;-)

Another thing which is totally cool and I didn't know existed:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/win32/xpi/hu.xpi (or 2.0/linux/xpi/whatever.xpi)... Certainly beats downloading a whole new version of firefox. Why don't they make these language packs a bit more obvious? :(

damnit, I forgot to edit the link; http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0&o s=win&lang=en-US

here is a link to the new version:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5.0 .7&os=win&lang=en-US
and now we can all argue about what's actually in the application.

(if anyone cares, this post has been spell checked by the 2.0 official release)

... Firefox 2.0 is available on Mozilla's FTP.

(I'm using it right now).

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/

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I looked it up... Mozilla added CSS 3 Opacity (as opposed to the testing -moz-opacity) with 1.7 , released in June 2004. Two years is peanuts compared to how long CSS3 is taking (but yeah, boo, give me my swanky effects!)

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS:-moz-opac ity
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

I looked it up... Mozilla added CSS 3 Opacity (as opposed to the testing -moz-opacity) with 1.7 , released in June 2004. Two years is peanuts compared to how long CSS3 is taking (but yeah, boo, give me my swanky effects!)

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CSS:-moz-opac ity
http://www.mozilla.org/releases/

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.e xe

No need to wait for the official announcement!
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/

disabling text completion for input boxes

Sounds like you want autocomplete="off" (most of the rest of that page is quite out-of-date).

While it won't be officially "released" until tomorrow, Firefox 2.0 is available now.

Speaking of alternative solutions, there's another big difference between this and the netscape/explorer incident :

Several years passed between when the Netscape browser became b0rked beyond usefullness, and before new partical opensource solutions started to rise from the ashes like FireFox/IceWeasel.
This gave plenty of time for the "bundled with and good enough" explorer to gain market share.

In the current situation not only are there already several player with enterprise-wide contracts with big corps, but free-as-in-speech alternatives have already emerged, and those are already good for a lot of utilisation similar as Mozilla and FireFox were at their dawn (ClamAV is routinely used in mail servers), plus solutions to make them really great are being actively developped (built-in mail plugin, available browser plugin, embeding in opensource watchdogs, nice windows suite, etc)

In article similar to this one, Microsoft is praised with the way in which it managed to catchup in the internet field even if it was a late commer. But we all know how microsoft usually catches up : it's solution are often completly botched, bugged, under-performing. Explorer was getting used by a lot of people, but it mostly was a joke in term of security, stability and standarts.
For sure, Microsoft will try to get a similar monopoly on security. But we can be certain that their solution will, this time too, not be very effective or usefull, probably buggy, full of exploits itself, often circumvented by malware writer, and propably turned of by "wanna-be-power-users" because it slows down their computers (which are already falling under the load of viruses and spambots).

But this time, ClamAV, AVG, H+BDEV and Kaspersky will already be there to be promoted as a better solution by articles, just like now FireFox and Opera are promoted against IE's defects after years of IE dominance.

The Firefox 2.0 nightly builds are in the mozilla1.8 directories on the FTP server.

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nigh tly/latest-mozilla1.8/

foxpose has had it since, um, I can't remember. I'm pretty sure Opera has this built-in, but don't take my word for it.

With the new spellchecker they will also be introducing a new attribute to the input tag: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Controlling_s pell_checking_in_HTML_forms Is this a non-standard attribute? Are we going back to each browser adding stuff and hoping the other one stays relatively compatible? I'm not saying whether this is a good or a bad thing. I was just curious.

Firefox also lets you decide how much memory is used for caching. The problem is that all images on all currently displayed pages are stored uncompressed in the memory cache, even if the storage exceeds the maximum size you've set. It's not a memory leak, so in practice the memory usage is a problem only when you're displaying pages with lots of large images, but it can cause hundreds of megabytes of memory usage on certain pages.

The changes are nicely summarized in this page.

I find "Client-side session and persistent storage" to be quite interesting, and wonder if any major web apps will make use of it in the near future. There are also JavaScript 1.7 which makes JavaScript more Pythonic, SVG support, and several other features.

The changes are nicely summarized in this page.

I find "Client-side session and persistent storage" to be quite interesting, and wonder if any major web apps will make use of it in the near future. There are also JavaScript 1.7 which makes JavaScript more Pythonic, SVG support, and several other features.

The changes are nicely summarized in this page.

I find "Client-side session and persistent storage" to be quite interesting, and wonder if any major web apps will make use of it in the near future. There are also JavaScript 1.7 which makes JavaScript more Pythonic, SVG support, and several other features.

Googlepedia
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2517/

If people here don't ever RTFAs, why should the editors bother? Obviously it's a slow Sunday.

The default bookmarks.html for Firefox 1.5 contains a keyword search for Wikipedia, but if your profile is from the 0.x/1.x days, it won't contain this keyword search. The default list of keyword searches has been removed from Firefox 2.0 by the way, so a keyword search needs to be manually added to a fresh 2.0 profile.

The default bookmarks.html for Firefox 1.5 contains a keyword search for Wikipedia, but if your profile is from the 0.x/1.x days, it won't contain this keyword search. The default list of keyword searches has been removed from Firefox 2.0 by the way, so a keyword search needs to be manually added to a fresh 2.0 profile.