Firefox 2.0 To Debut Tuesday

An anonymous reader writes "Firefox 2.0 for Tuesday, says the Seattle PI. They give a quick recap of some of the new features, and discuss the ongoing IE vs. Fox debate." From the article: "Version 2.0 also improves on the tabbed-windows interface that Mozilla innovated and that Microsoft introduced for the first time last week with IE7, its biggest upgrade since 2001. Analysts said IE7 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, but the big question is whether it will stem Firefox's growth at Microsoft's expense. Firefox's share of the browser market has grown to 9.8 percent of the U.S. market this month, from 2.9 percent in October 2004."

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The Netscaping...

[suv4x4]

While people are busy commenting "the Netscaping" of Symantec and McAffee, people are missing the more obvious one:

The Netscaping of Firefox.. Quite a fit, eh?

IE7 has the power and ability to burry Firefox in the ground. And I don't want lame excuses like "but Firefox has X and IE7 doesn't".

You know this doesn't matter.

The Tabbed Browser

[Nicolay77]

Several years ago, Opera was the only modern and fast Web Browser that used and perfected the tabbed browser interface.

Opera was known as "The Tabbed Browser" for such a long time, while Mozilla users debated in their forums about the silliness of tabs.

That's the reason Opera users and developers feels that's unfair all the credit FF has. The same with mouse gestures, pop-up blocking, that you can undo closing a page, the ultra fast history cache, etc.

In fact, FF 1.0 was still a POS compared with Opera while their zealots said FF was much better because of the license. FF 1.5 was the first version usable (for a Opera user), with its fair share of extensions. FF 2.0 could be better than Opera for the first time (we must test it!), however FF has got almost 80% of its 'features specification' from Opera.