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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 guacamolefoo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Tab reordering is nice (I'm at 1.5.0.7). Something I'd like to see is the ability to drag and drop folders in my bookmarks. The links themselves can be moved, but I can't seem to be able to move folders around. That sort of sucks.

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  2. Re:WHy a new installer for Windows? by Compholio · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Why they went to the trouble of a new installer and don't create a msi installer for Windows I don't know.
    Making proper MSI packages, at least with Microsoft's Orca tool, is a pain in the butt. Nullsoft installers are much easier to create and much easier to deploy as silent installations on large networks, unless of course the tool you're using doesn't support executables and only supports MSI packages.
  3. 2.0rc3 is 2.0 under cover by mennucc1 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just told my Firefox 2.0rc2 to autoupgrade ; now when I ask "about Mozilla Firefox", it says "Firefox 2.0" - whereas 2.0rc2 said "2.0rc2" . So this , under the hood, is already 2.0 ; IMHO the dev team thinks that, most probably, there will not be a 2.0rc4, so they are betting on this to really be 2.0.

  4. Re:Ungrateful Bitching by jdavidb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just a small correction: in general, Flash is not used to view average websites, but subaverage websites.

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  5. Re:Ungrateful Bitching by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm currently running Firefox 1.5.0.7 w/21 extensions. I have 20 tabs open, many with memory-intensive pages with large amounts of content and/or scripting. Windows XP Task Manager reports 90MB for firefox.exe (which I consider to be perfectly normal). I close 16 tabs and memory usage is down to 56MB.

    Since there seems to be a fairly small, tech-oriented group who routinely complain about Firefox's memory usage I'm inclined to believe it may be the result of an extension or non-standard configuration. I have used the browser since it was called Phoenix and have never experienced these memory issues.

  6. Re:FLASH - saved the universe! by FuzzyBad-Mofo · · Score: 2, Interesting
    And why does IE not have this issue? Will someone please help me? Mozilla? Linus? CmdrTaco?

    How about Adobe?

    You do realize the Flash plugin is a 3rd-party piece of closed-source software, correct? And that the IE Flash plugin is different from the Netscape/Mozilla Flash plugin?

  7. Re:Ungrateful Bitching by bunratty · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I've had over a month of uptime with Opera hanging out at 40 MB.
    That's amazing that memory use is so low for you in Opera. When I tried opening the same six sites in six tabs that I did in a post father down the page, Opera used 99 MB of memory, and went down to 56 MB when I closed all but the first tab. That's about the same amount of memory Firefox 2 uses with the same sites.
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  8. Wikipedia Support for FF2.0 Added by yurik · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I recently enabled support for the new Firefox 2.0 auto-suggest search engine feature on all Wikimedia servers.
    Wikipedia will provide suggestions to your search as you type in the search box. To enable, visit any Wiki-site (i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/ ), and click the Engine Selector button (to the left of the search box). Click "Add Wikipedia". Afterwards, when you start typing in the search box while having Wikipedia engine selected, titles will automatically appear. Sometimes a FF restart is needed for the feature to begin to work. If you have any questions or suggestions, leave me a comment at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Yurik . At some point more relevant search will be implemented as well.