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Firefox 2.0 RC3 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-morning-project dept.

midkay writes "Firefox 2.0 RC3 has just been released. The release notes cover all the changes since the first release candidate, but RC3 appears to have a new Windows installer and more security in the extensions aspect, among a few other things."

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  1. Re:Ungrateful Bitching by eldavojohn · · Score: 3, Informative
    I'm just waiting for drag-and-drop tabs so I can reorder my tab order.
    I'm not sure what you're talking about, but if there's a red circle with an arrow in the upper right of your Firefox window, click it and update. My Firefox allows me to drag and drop tabs to reorder them. I think I've been able to do that since version 1.5. What I'm using:
    Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7
    Unless you're joking, I think this feature has already been implemented.
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  2. Not "new" in RC3 by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a bit obvious from the number of major additions described, but the "phishing protection" and "new Windows Installer" are just new features of 2.0, which were already in earlier release candidates. Compare the announcements of RC3 and RC2 on the developer blog.

    The release notes page itself seems a bit misleading, since they specifically talk about "Firefox 2 RC3" even in places where they mean Firefox 2 - perhaps someone saved time with a search & replace.

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    So while this announcement probably means they fixed bugs and are another step closer to the final release, the major features aren't news.

  3. Biggest problem with firefox... by slib · · Score: 3, Informative
    Memory consumption, for one. I've had situations where, upon running the app FRESH, it's shit all over 70 megs of my memory - on RC3. And on /. alone. Opera in the same environment only uses ~30, and even IE, heaven forbid, uses less. Although RC3 does look mighty swanky, I'll take Opera's modular approach to aesthetics any day - let's just hope the gents from Norway get those compatibility problems taken care of (infinitely expanding pages, anyone?).

    Some nice new features (no, I didn't RTFA):

    -auto spellcheck (GREAT idea, especially for your typical slashdotter)

    -session saving (although Opera beat it to the punch like, well, everything else(aww snap -1 troll))

    -security updates... ?

  4. Re:Ungrateful Bitching by bunratty · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dozens of memory leaks have been fixed in Firefox 2. A memory benchmark shows Firefox 2 consumes less memory than IE 7 or Opera 9.

    If you're still seeing a memory problem in Firefox 2, what you should do is describe steps to reproduce the problem so the bug can be reported and fixed.

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  5. Finding the 2.0 Compatible Extensions by coldcanofbeer · · Score: 5, Informative
    A guy has created a handy searchable list of the extensions / Add-ons that are compatible with Firefox 2.0:

    Here is the link: Bill's Big List of Firefox 2.0 Compatible Extensions

  6. Re:Ungrateful Bitching by roger6106 · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you hold shift you can drag folders. I don't know why they decided on that idea.

  7. Re:Ungrateful Bitching by bunratty · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's happening is that Opera 9 is swapping out memory from RAM to disk when you minimize the Opera window. To see the total memory usage (both in RAM and on disk) look at the VM Size column in the Windows Task Manager.

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  8. Re:"un-fix" tabbed browsing? by code65536 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes!

    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:c onfig_Entries

    Specifically, look at:
    browser.tabs.closeButtons
    browser.tabs.tabMinWidth