Mozilla Firefox 2 RC2 Released

Shining Celebi writes "According to the Mozilla Developer Center, Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 is available for download. This looks like it could be the final release candidate, and offers a tweaked UI and improved stability over RC1, plus, of course, all the new in Firefox 2.0 features."

Comments

Acute Craniorectal Insertionitis

[joe_n_bloe]

I know of several open source developers who have stopped using it because of the recent Debian nonsense. Debates aside, their handling of the situation had a very negative impact. Many developers have gained a dislike for the Mozilla project, and others have switched. Those developers I know are now using Konqueror. One of them is using Opera on Windows. ...

You may think that it's only 20 or so people I'm talking about here, and that we're not that important. I'd beg to differ. Each one of us has recommended the use of Firefox to our relatives, friends, colleagues, and other acquaintances. Many of them have stopped suggesting it. I personally don't recommend its use. I suggest Konqueror or Opera for Linux users, and Opera for Windows users. Mac OS X users these days seem to go straight to Safari. At least five of the people I know are now making similar recommendations to people they know.

Yes, you're not that important.

Re:Opera still feels more responsive, uses less RA

[joe_n_bloe]

Right, I use Opera when I need a browser that looks weird and can't handle JavaScript and CSS but does it all really fast.

Re:Firefox is hemorrhaging users.

[skelator2821]

Dont feed the Trolls Please

Bloat AND Spyware

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean the anti-phishing thing and spellchecker are both cool, but why not leave these two things as extensions?

Well, for one thing, if Google "anti-phishing" (a.k.a spyware) is created as an extension then many users may choose NOT to install Google spyware. Certainly, this cannot be allowed, every FireFox 2.0+ user MUST install Google spyware.

Re:Screw Perl 6; Make Mine Javascript

[Eivind Eklund]

Try Ruby. It's got an object model that can function like JavaScript's, and it is a cleaner language than Perl 6. It's sort of a fixed Perl and JavaScript, while also picking the good from a ton of other languages, and keeping the result simple and clean.

There's a couple of minor annoyances with it, of course, like with everything - but overall, it's clearly the most pleasant language I've programmed in.

Eivind.