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Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early
A number of readers alerted us to the [link removed] day-early [accidental] posting of Firefox version 2.0. At this writing the top page at mozilla.com still doesn't mention its availability. One reader pointed us to [link removed] a mirror and another recommended a comprehensive review of Firefox 2.0, with many screenshots, over at mozillalinks.org. Update by RM: - links above removed at request of Mozilla release people. They asked us to link to this note instead. They're only asking us to wait until Tuesday Afternoon (U.S. Pacific Time) for the official 2.0 download, which isn't long. (Patience is a virtue, etc.)
Linking to a 5.4Mb file directly on Slashdot. Nice!
And I just finished emerging 1.5...
No fp!1!? I guess everyone's rushing to download it first. This proves my theory: FF > random /. memes.
The Firefox team are assured never to suffer 0-day exploits by making -1-day releases. Clever, clever...
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
It's not on software update either yet. I think I'll wait until firefox wants to upgrade and then I'll do one last check that all my extensions have been updated.
the more they over-think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the pipe
It beat itself to the internet!
Sweet move to link to the en-GB version. That's the flavour I like!
Nice to see open source being early when other offerings are a little... late.
Slashdotting seems unlikely, though.
I don't know but the Rc3 at any rate appears to be a final release to me. It's awesome and has brought me back from using Opera. Let's see if the memory usage is as high as it used to be after a week of continuous usage ;)
the first link is to the windows EXE file. for those of us NOT USING WINDOWS, click the mirror link.
wft, mate. not everybody uses windows.
887321 = 337*2633
1) it quits crashing all the time with the mplayer plugin when playing videos
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.
Otherwise the current 1.x version works well enough for me.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
The article links to the BRITISH version... Which sucks for all us American types.
So, don't just download that one and install it. It DOES matter, with the inline spell-checker.
Or else you'll end up doing your neighbour a favour by changing his tyre.
Related Links: "Compare prices on Mozilla"
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
And where is the /crack directory? I guess they put a serial in the nfo.
Hopefully this will be ready and waiting for me in Ubuntu Edgy when I upgrade in (hopefully) a few days.
Summation 2
There is now Firefox 2 support enabled on all Wiki*edia sites. To use, navigate to http://en.wikipedia.org/ (or any other language/project), click the search engine selector button in the upper right corner, and click "add wikipedia". The added bonus is that auto-suggest is also working - as you type you search, it will provide a list of page titles that begin with the typed letters.
s .js, and edit the "_suggestionTimeout: 500" line. Something like 2000 works fine for me.
One note - the timeout is set to 500ms, which is not too long (especially when the entire slashdot visits wiki). To make it longer, open firefox_install_dir\components\nsSearchSuggestion
--Yurik / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik
Are there any differences between the two? I'm already running the RC3 ebuild and I'd really like to avoid upgrading if possible.
Pfffttt, no thanks. Let me know when IceWeasel is ready.
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
Page scrolling in FF2 in journals is really slow with the new comment system turned on.
:)
All in all, seems like a fairly good release. A bit slower here and there though, but pages appear even faster than before. Well that could very well be a UI illusion, but whatever, it seems to work.
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For crying out loud ! Can't we just leave those Mozilla folks alone for a day, so that they can prepare the release. They have to post 38 different executables, and do a very last check to see if they actually work.
The link above is to the English-GB version. For your convenience: US English installer, Win32.
Love sees no species.
It's payback for Mozilla's actually trying to assert its trademark rights!
When we tout the advantages of Open Source, the availability of extensions on time, is not something we should fail on. After all, there have been a number of betas and release candidates released before this major one. Tests could be done on those.
One problem I have seen with this new version is that its default theme is ugly! I appreciate that in consumes less memory and feels a bit more snappier than the older version.
The re-organzation that has been made in the preferences section is also highly appreciated. The same applies to spell checking - its best feature in my opinion.
I have one question though. Is Firefox a GTK application? I see it resembles a GTK application and uses its dialogs. If not, when shall we see a KDE like looking Firefox? KDE folks, do something.
Mean while, those who expect to get their hands dirty with this version will have to wait for their FTP site is already slashdotted!
Tab Mix Plus is not FF2-compatible yet; the author says a new version should come along within a week or so. This is proving mighty irritating. I used both the regular close-tab button *and* the per-tab close buttons; now I only have the per-tab ones. Gah. Add features, folks, don't REMOVE them. :(
Other than that, it's definitely faster (except for one area - switching between already-loaded tabs is MUUUUCH faster in IE7. And no, that's nowhere near enough to get me to use IE7).
And is themeability now gone, or am I just not looking in the right spot? I don't see any way to change the look of this thing.
Maybe Opera will one day have a decent interface, and enough features for me not to need Extensions (apparently now renamed 'Add-Ons', and I can use a fast & lightweight browser.
How's the memory footprint/consumption?
Originally that was FF's main selling point before it became what it is today. (well hopefully yesterday)
I have running this for half day now (the real one not rc3), it feels a bit smoother. The sitebar add-on does work and they change the ctrl-s key binding so sage kb short-cut foes not work. Everything else is working as expected and build0in spell-checker is doing its work. It's a great release/
I don't like the new icons at all, the old ones were a lot better. Does someone else agree with me here and have a fix available?
Just got it from their ftp server.
x /releases/2.0/
n dex.php
ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo
source
http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/10/23/firefox/i
From the article, "Since its first release, back in November 1.0, the web browsers..." Apparently November 1.0 was a productive month for web browsers. I'd love to do November over again. November 2.0 here we come!
Please don't make the first link in a post a blind link to a Windows executable.
Why not use BitTorrent? This is the best legal use for it.
Download FireFox here
Tell your friends about xenu.net
But FF2.0 goes out and tries to find them and apply them automatically so it tells you right away what's no longer working. So far FasterFox and MediaWrap and Google Send2Phone don't work. I haven't worked with it enough to discover what it is that DOES work better. I hope general IEishness and compatibility are improved.
The latest version is quite nice. The integrated spell checker is worth it alone (I had been using an extension, but having it integrated is so much nicer).
I thought I might could do away with Tab Mix Plus now, however it was quickly apparent that the extension is still a must. As a developer I'm too used to switching through multiple documents by history, not by some arbitrary linear order. So with Tab Mix Plus I can easily CTRL-TAB back and forth between a couple specific tabs, even if there are a dozen other tabs open. So I'm waiting for the author(s) to update it because it is no longer compatible.
Happily, the other extensions I use all had upgrades for 2.0. That was my biggest gripe about FireFox in the past. Especially a previous upgrade that I think was security-related. The version went from like 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.3 and suddenly 90% of my extensions weren't compatible. That was unacceptable, especially with such a seemingly small change in version number.
Dan East
Better known as 318230.
Its tuesday here in Austalia, for all you who dont know, the main developer for Firefox lives in New Zealand!
SO it is ontime, not early.. you people of slashdot are just slow.
Does this mean we'll start hearing about "-1 Day Exploits" now?
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
I really wish it was out on Software Update already. That, in my opinion, was the best new feature in Firefox 1.5, and many more software programs should adopt it.
Does anybody know of a Session Saver equivalent that works with 2.0? That's my single favorite extension, bar none.
It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
...because RC2 for MacOS X had massive problems whereby ALL keystrokes (typing in text fields on a page OR the browser search/URL bar) would simply stop working. This was most irritating when filling out forms and a MAJOR bug for a "release candidate", in my book.
About the only way to get keys to work again was to select+copy some text and paste it into a field. That would give you a 1 in 3 chance of reactivating the ability to type...
Did I mention the problem pops up with almost every new release on OS X? 1.0 did it, 1.5 previews did it...
Please help metamoderate.
IE7 doesn't even work on my OS (Windows 2000). Guess it's going to have to be Firefox 2 then!
The .exe installer size is approximately
5.7 MB
5.4 MiB
45.6 Mb
43.5 Mib
Turns out that's actually included as default functionality in 2.0! I wonder what other plugins/extensions/add-ons (whatever they're being called now..) I won't need anymore..
It's never just a game when you're winning. - George Carlin
At this writing,
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
and
http://www.getfirefox.com/
and
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/
all only say Firefox 1.5. Come f-ing on, slashdot, after having jumped the gun several times on freebsd. do they really need emails from everyone that produces software saying "only announce things when they're really announced" before checking a single website or two to see if something's officially out?
I'm on a road shaped like a figure eight; I'm going nowhere but I'm guaranteed to be late.
Btw, the "Weasel" name is messed up for obvious marketing reasons.
There was Phoenix.
Then there was Firebird.
Then there was Firebird and Thunderbird.
Then Firebird became Firefox.
I was waiting for Thunderfox, but I guess the car company never sued.
But the original naming was about birds of elemental nature.
Why was Weasel chosen over something that people would actually use?
Why not keep Fox.
If not, why not Wolf.
I know Coyote is to hard.
Firefox 1.5 onslaught kills Mozilla. Firefox 2.0 side lined.
A Good Troll is better than a Bad Human.
Resuming your browsing session: The Session Restore feature restores windows, tabs, text typed in forms, and in-progress downloads from the last user session. It will be activated automatically when installing an application update or extension, and users will be asked if they want to resume their previous session after a system crash. To activate: Under "Options"- "Main" tab - from the drop down menu "When Firefox starts:" select "Show my windows and tabs from the last time". This feature is gold and alone make it worthwhile to upgrade.
It's wonderful but Magpie is not working.
Sniff.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.e xe
Any way I can smooth fonts in my browser without having Windows apply it to every other app? Also, Windows doesn't always smooth enough for me.
One thing not really mentioned in the preview is that they definitely seem to have the memory under control finally. I've had up to 30 tabs open (only a dozen now) and have been using it all day and it's only using 75MB of memory. FF1.5 would be hovering around 250MB after the same use.
It also feels much snappier in general, if only because it's not sprawling all over the paging file (I don't know what other speed tweaks it has).
All my extensions except undoclosetab updated automatically (and that's built in now) so that was probably the smoothest upgrade I've ever had. Though I use the LittleFox theme and I was on version 1.5, which looked very strange in FF2.0. But after a manual 'look for updates' for themese it found LittleFox 1.7 which looks great.
So far I'm very pleased with it.
This is actually something that Opera has featured for quite a long time. I have always loved Opera's ability to save sessions, not just continuing from last time. You can save multiple sessions and use them whenever you like.
Meh. As a web developer, I'm more anxious for the release of Firefox 3.0. Firefox 2 uses the same rendering engine as 1.5, they just wanted to compete with IE 7. Bah! I want a new Gecko!
And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be bannana-shaped.
Unless you're an Opera user. We have that feature for several years now. :P
We are Turing O-Machines. The Oracle is out there.
Is anybody else running into the problem of Google Personalized Homepage breaking in FF2? I'm running the en-GB version that was linked in the article. As far as I can tell the tabs on Google's Personalized Homepage don't work. I'm about to install FF2 on my Mac, I'll see if the error is there too.
-Grant
|grant.henninger.name|
Am I ever so glad that I grabbed my copy 30 minutes before somebody told Slashdot about it.
Mir tut es leid, Menschen daß Einfältigfehlersuchenbaumfolgendenaffen sind.
Woo woo fake trolls!
Official Mozilla BitTorrent site:
F inal_EN_USF inal_EN_GB
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_
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)
(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)
Does anyone else have problems with bookmarks? FF2.0 keeps deleting all of mine. Not to mention it won't let me manage them. Ugh. Sometimes I hate upgrades.
Hell is other people - Jean-Paul Sartre
I'm on Firefox 2.0 RC3 for Windows (which is the same thing as 2.0 final), and Ctrl+F searches into the textarea that I'm typing this comment into.
Some people have voiced their concern that this release is not worth the 2.0 moniker. I however don't understand the point. If numbers are to be believed, this version is as incremental as 1.5 was for 1.0
This is an exceptionally bad argument. In version-land, 1.0-->1.5 != 1.5-->2.0. This is where things like "version 1.13" come from. It's simply not a decimal representation. So, unless there's some compelling change, whether it be to functionality and UI or to the underlying code base, there's no justification for bumping the major version number. (Chessmaster 9000 is, of course, a special case.) This is in no way to denigrate the efforts of the development team.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
0. Make a working directory. I called mine "fff." Make two directories in it: 1 and 2. Now you'll have ~/fff/1 and ~/fff/2. /chrome/classic.jar file from the OLD firefox version to your ~/fff/1 directory. For example, on Slackware it's /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/chrome/classic.jar /chrome/classic.jar file from the NEW firefox install to ~/fff/2. /usr/lib/firefox2/chrome/.
1. Copy the
2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory.
3. Now copy the
4. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/browser.css into ~/fff/2/skin/classic/global/browser.css. Just overwrite the file, because it sucks.
5. From ~/fff/2, you can just do zip -f classic.jar. -f is freshen; zip will report that it updated the one file.
6. Copy ~/fff/2/classic.jar back to where you found it in the NEW firefox install. I had mine in
7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
and even the memes look different!
Does anyone know if Firefox 2 supports freetype 2 properly through its api? FF 1.5 has been a bitch to get to display Vista Cleartype fonts correctly.
See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2006/10/the_a ntirelease.html for the Mozilla build team's take on articles like this one.
Firefox 2 has not yet been officially released. Please be patient. We still plan on launching Tuesday, October 24th in the afternoon pacific time. Linking to anything other than getfirefox.com or mozilla.com hurts us, our volunteer mirror network, and our ability to effectively serve up and guarantee availability of Firefox. Thank you! -- cbeard@mozilla.org
dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0.tar.gz
:-)
dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz
don't think there's been that many changes
You know, Microsoft's street address also says a lot about their mentality.
No, its the slashdot stripping the less than symbol
should be -1 < 0
1. It clobbered by bookmarks.
2. Tabs don't work. I can open new tabs but not load anything in them or close them.
And that's just in 60 seconds of looking it over.
It's marginally conceivable that some extension I have is to blame but I am not using anything particularly exotic so even if that is the case many others would be in danger as well.
other than the signature, so those of you who downloaded RC3 don't need to DL again.
Is this a bug or feature?
There is no long an option to block 3rd party cookies. Setting the network.cookie.cookieBehavior option in about:config to 1 is supposed to set the option, but it doesn't work. I loaded up the slashdot main page, and doubleclick.net set a cookie.
Except it deleted all my bookmarks from Firefox 1.5. Thanks.
It might be possible to do this by putting the relevant CSS rules in your userChrome.css file.
This is a shameless attempt on the part of Mozilla to stave off the crushing mindshare defeat that Microsoft is about to hand out with Internet Explorer 7. With improved support for stuff and things, IE7 promposes to make Firefox 2 obsolete by nightfall on it's release date.
IE7 will ship with the patented Cure For Cancer toolbar and embedded network optimization that makes tastefully photographed adult literature download 50% percent faster than with the dinosaur browser.
And that's not all. MS didn't forget about you developers. IE7's javascript debugger provides error messages that are 83% more ambiguous than with Firefox.
It's a well known fact that FireFox's only real market growth is in the UK where people hate fire, but like foxes. Therefore, Firefox can only achieve 50% marketshare in the UK maximum. Elsewhere in the world where fire and foxes are both despised, the Firefox market is limited to people who like dinosaurs which is just 10 year old boys named Kyle.
Just kidding.
Firefox Rules.
You can make a difference. Donate to The LEEBY (Larry Ellison's Even Bigger Yacht) Fund.
First of all... YAY!! that FF2 is already available. I am using it to write this comment. Second of all... I didn't notice the download link was to the English-Great Britain version. I didn't notice until I saw that the Bookmarks menu said "Organise" instead of "Organize". Then I had to go through the hassle of manually "updating" to the EN-United States version. Is Slashdot English?
I forget the exact quote asa dotzler but dont believe what media/news outlets say until we get the official word from the official people.
1 0/i_said_tuesday.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/
I don't understand why this warranted a /. article, doesn't Mozilla usually have the "mirror" releases available a few days before t hey announce it?
Wasn't 1.0 available about three days prior to official release, you just had to get it in the same manner as this?
I don't know about the en-GB or win32 versions but the en-US Linux version on this mirror is actually just the latest release candidate. I downloaded and installed but the build date of this version is 20061010, identical to the release candidate i was using before.
but mozilla, the magic dragon
I have one question though. Is Firefox a GTK application? I see it resembles a GTK application and uses its dialogs. If not, when shall we see a KDE like looking Firefox? KDE folks, do something.
Why would the KDE folks want to do anything with Firefox? They already have a far superior web browser: Konqueror. It's designed from the bottom up to integrate perfectly with KDE. No matter what they did to Firefox, they could never get it to rival Konqueror.
And yes, Firefox can often be considered a GTK+ application. The default build for Linux, in addition to that supplied by many distributions, uses GTK+ 2.x. Of course, Firefox has other graphics backends, including GTK+ 1.x and Xlib.
Ok, a favorite feature of mine has changed, someone help me figure out how to change it back. Traditionally in Firefox I could type a search phrase into the location bar and firefox would take me to the top google result (the I'm Feeling Lucky result). This was great for a lot of things. Now, sadly, when I type a search phrase into the 2.0 location bar, I get the google search page. No no no. That's no good. I've already got the google search bar for that, I want the I'm feeling Lucky result.
How can I get it back?
Please, help me.
--
RumorsDaily
Already downloaded Firefox 2.0 (from slashdot's link, thank you) and am posting this comment using the browser that is to be released tomorrow. btw, it is soooooo much better than ie7.
Used it for two minutes, and already I hit a bug. On OSX, if you right click the toolbars and hit "Customize", the pop-up dialog won't go away, my changes aren't saved, and most of the menu's are unusable. I can quit though, without having to use the "Force Quit" method.
.."toolbars" is NOT spelled incorrectly! 4 minutes, two bugs. Maybe they could have used the extra day for development, no?
Aaaand there's another bug as I'm writing this
It's OpenSearch support, so any browser is free to implement a similar feature. As far as I can tell, this particular methodology of showing OpenSearch enabled sites was Microsoft's idea (it's been in IE7 since the early betas).
I'd really like to see how Apple, Opera, and the Konqueror folks do their takes on this feature, because I'm not sure Mozilla and Microsoft have this perfectly refined yet.
I thought this was a Linux site (or at least a Windows-bashing site)? If Linux is superior to Windows in every way then why don't they link to the Linux install?
Nick
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
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. :(
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
... because it's built on speed. Duh.
Why in the world do we have to force users to stare at a stupid arrow button next to the url location bar... last time I checked most users just hit the enter key. Same thing with the stupid search icon button next to the search box...
PLEASE allow users to turn this chrome off! All it does is waste space and make the menu look more cluttered. Yes, I am typing this message from Firefox 2. No, I won't be leaving it on my machine, or installing it anywhere else, until I can get rid of these extra useless/duplicative buttons.
Install this.
The default theme for FF 2.0 makes me want to scrape my eyes out. The default theme for 1.0/1.5 was bad, but it's gone from bad to actively offensive, in my opinion.
My eyes returned to happy land as soon as I got Qute for FF 2.0 installed.
http://www.cfa.ilstu.edu/ This page doesn't seem to like FF2. Anyone else find other pages with probs?
Firefox 2.0 Rulez! Definitely the IE killer!
Anybody else noticed it's in the Ubuntu Edgy, and therefore presumably Debian Etch, repos as of noonish today anyways? Interesting.
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/
Why is the comment from Mozilla posted as an Anonymous Coward. Sure, I'm posting as an Anonymous Coward, but I'm not posing to be a major corporation.
Wouldn't the final build be the same as RC 3?
It would of course confirm itself as RC3, maybe.
But since everything "Worked" they didn't need to release another RC, meaning RC3 would be final.
Might not update to, say, 2.01, though.
I've been using the beta for a while, and really like it. But one thing I don't like is that there is now a close tab [x] on every tab, rather than just one on the far right? Is it possible (without downloading source and recompiling, thanks...) to make it so that there's just one close tab button that is anchored to the far right (like 1.5)?
I like the recent tabs function, but I probably wouldn't need it but for the multitudes of "close tab" buttons that are suddenly between my the webpage I'm looking at and the address bar.
maybe
Use Delicious
The /. editors will never live up to their job titles. They usually don't read the links themselves.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
The (US) 5.6 MG Firefox 2.0 Download can be downloaded via BT here:2 0Setup%202.0.exe.torrent
2 02.0.dmg.torrent
http://www.torrentbox.com/download/71866/Firefox%
The (US) 17.56 MB Firefox 2.0 Download for Mac can be downloaded via BT here:
http://www.torrentbox.com/download/71871/Firefox%
I'll leave my Macbook on all night, so enjoy!
This sig donated to Pater. Long live
There is a new Tab Mix Plus version up for testing, and it does work on FF 2.0. So far, I haven't had any problems with it.
How to update Firefox: don't.
- Export your bookmarks to file
- Uninstall the previous version
- Delete your profile folder
- Delete the cache folders
- Install the new version
- Import your bookmarks
- Install latest versions of your favorite extensions
- Restart the browser
- Browse happily
I have found this to be the most reliable way to update Firefox with predictable results.
99% of upgrade issues stem from silly themes, customizations and outdated extensions.
I read the blog post ...
"I promise it's worth the wait."
Kinda like a conservative girlfriend saying that we have to wait for marriage before the sex.
Wow, you found a collision in md5! Great work! There will be a *big* raise for you. Yes siree, jonasj will be going places now. Just picture it your name all lit up in neon lights with a mess of people fightin to get a look at the man that cracked md5!
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Okay, I'm patiently waiting to find out if they've yet managed to actually enable clicking with the middle mouse button to open a link in a new tab on the Mac.
Thanks goodness! While this release is only one day early by Mozilla's standards, it's a full three days before it's due to be on Slashdot!
- RG>
Hey pal, this isn't a pleasantforest, so don't waste my time with pleasantries!
after i crash the error report gave me the following link.... kinda funny.
Upgrade for Firefox recommended
Thank you for submitting an error report.
Problem description
An error occurred in your Firefox. Firefox was created by Mozilla Firefox.
Recommendation
A solution is not available for the specific problem you reported; however, Mozilla Firefox has informed Microsoft that a new version of Firefox is available. The new version may not fix the error you reported, but Mozilla Firefox recommends that you install it. To learn more about the update, click the link below.
Mozilla Firefox
Additional information
If you are not familiar with Firefox and you are questioning how the program got on your computer, it is possible that the program was installed with another program. If you are wondering why Firefox is running, many programs configure themselves to start automatically every time you turn on your computer.
Microsoft did not create, nor does it provide technical support for Firefox.
If you have trouble installing the upgrade or the problem you reported persists, please contact Mozilla Firefox and alert them of the problem.
always mosh clockwise
And they say Linux isn't ready for the desktop.... pffft!
....only use torrents. As in "only use torrents".
..they get popular! You can't have it both ways unless you use something like bit torrent, and them's the internet facts 0 life. If you want to just be open, then adjust your server, limit connections and speed, throttle it, if it is to much, shut it down. If you can't or don't want to eat bandwith, then don't offer it in the first place. It is that easy. If you don't want to do anything but pretend it is 1986, then there is no help, don't pretend to be a big dog and call yourself a mirror for a very large and major project, limit yourself to just sharing torrents at whatever speed is your uploading preference so that you can afford it.
If you as joe user are getting something for free, donating some of your own bandwith is fair enough. If you as uncle mofo wants to just use official blessed mirrors, but are concerned about your bandwith bills (or your friends with the mirrors), then just be seeds, not ftp places open to the general public. Whining about it is pure bullshit. Lock those places down, they can get their files by ftp from mofo, then only release them as torrents by being the blessed seeders. That should save considerable bandwith for most of those concerned.
This is 2006, whining about bandwith costs when you have open servers on the net is a little stoopid at this point doncha think? Which is it, want to be a big dog or not? One must assume that the net is now huge and popular sites will get hit hard when
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.htm l?product=firefox-2.0&os=win&lang=en-US get it here!
They're using their grammar skills there.
Ha, ha! Fixed it myself.
k y&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
For anyone curious:
Go to about:config (type it into the location bar)
Select: Keyword.URL
Change the value to this: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Luc
All is well.
--
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"there's no justification for bumping the major version number."
.5 every six months regardless of actual code changes, at least, until it has reached 7.5 (or one number greater than IE). Your average user's mind could see version 2.0 and version 7.0 and say to themselves, "Why should I trust those Firefox guys, it's only their second version, what do they know about the web?"
IE7. Marketing trumps numbering conventions every time. And FF3.0 will come out before IE8. If I were the guy handling FF numbers, I'd increase by
Just look at car comapnies. They rarely make a major break through within a model, so they go by the year giving the consumer the idea that every single year, the model improves. In fact, a big improvement will result in a new model, not "usually" within an existing model (unless the improvement goes company-wide, or the model is extremely popular and branding is at stake). Some models haven't fundamentally changed in over a decade.
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I am using Mozilla Debian Package 1.7.12-1.2. No problem!
Organization: alphabetical, sometimes numerical or messy
Because in the Internet world, market share == money. One metric for market share (and informed, interested users) is downloads within the first few days of a release. They measure a band's popularity in the same way: a record company will decide how much financial backing and marketting a band gets by how many CD's they sell within week one of an album's release.
For all those Australians out there: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3099/
... then I lost my virtue a long time ago. ;)
There's no such things as memes. Tell all your friends.
Cress, cress, lovely lovely cress
MIRROR HERE.
I was skimming this thread and noticing what new features are being mentioned, and I couldn't help noticing that they are all features that Konqueror already has:
- Spellchecker
- Wikipedia searching
- Autocompletion/suggestion for searches
- It's snappier than FF 1.5
- It uses way less memory than FF 1.5
The same can be said for various plugins that have been developed for FF (I'm talking about 1.x here): viewing non-HTML files inline, editing documents or images inside the browser window, speech synthesis; probably others.
I'm not trying to bash Firefox, I just thought it was something worth pointing out that Konqueror has some (apparently) desireable features. Obviously, Firefox has features that Konqueror doesn't have (yet), too.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_uti lities/mozillafirefox.html
So if microsoft accidentally released something early and then asked /. to remove the links would they do that or would there just be people crawling all over each other to repost the file?
It's easier to be patient when you have already decided you are going to like the product.
His instructions were just confusing. You could do all that in 3-4 quick steps, all done drag and drop too.
Memes are NOT the quiz things that are popular on teen blogs, just so you know.
I might be stupid, but E-mail seems to have been "disappeared" from my Firefox toolbar. WTF?
Goddamned kids! Get off my lawn!
First meme!
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
We all know that x.0 versions are beta.
I'll wait for 2.0.1, when it'll stop crashing (I tried 2.0, and it does crash often), the extensions will work, etc.
factor 966971: 966971
parent post appears to be a joke, british english firefox most certainly still uses the name cookie.
.exe for one [correct for one country, but mostly-wrong for everyone else] locale", in an international sense british english is just as valid as american.
personally i think the mozillazine block entry is very US centric in saying "directly links to an
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
I am waiting for the next artical from sombody saying about security issues because firefox 2.0 was released early because it was leaked.
I find it interesting that the /. editors decided to remove the links because the Mozilla folks asked them to. From the note, it seems that the reasons all boil down to "here's a bunch of reasons we are making up as to why you should post links to the publicly available sites to which we posted the stuff".
/. be so ready to remove the links because Steve Ballmer politely asked?
/. more of a fanboi site and news aggregator than an actual news site.
How are the mirrors going to have any less traffic today? I wonder that if Microsoft or some other comapny "released" something a day early, would
Then again, that's what makes
Had to kill it three times, when writing non-English languages. no problems with English.
The FTP is very busy, so here's a copy of the English-US windows binary that I downloaded.
o rg/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-U S/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.exe
http://goestoeleven.org/misc/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.
just appeared 5 minutes ago
How much more work would it be for the Canadians and the Australians to get proper spell-checking too?
beat a gong and pray for Dee
IF you can't be famous be infamous. But for GODS sake be something
What idiot modded this -1 Overrated?