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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.)
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.
Here is a link to the US version:o x/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.e xeo x/releases/2.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.tar.gz o x/releases/2.0/
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef
Linux Version:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef
Everything else you should be able to find here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
Please don't make the first link in a post a blind link to a Windows executable.
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.
It's built in!
Options -> main -> startup -> when firefox starts -> show my windows and tabs from last time.
It is, they already have the RC in.
Slashdot anagrams to "Sad Sloth"
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.
It is, I've been using Edgy and Firefox updated today. By the way, I got Beryl (formally compiz) running on Edgy a LOT easier than on Dapper - if that matters to you at all - and Automatix 2 already supports Edgy.
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
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.
It has been changed to 'wp $something' by default for a while now, but it is super easy to change to wiki (also as of a couple versions back the default 'dict $something' changed from reference.com to answers.com).
Computers allow humans to make mistakes at the fastest speeds known, with the possible exception of tequila and handguns
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)
It's not officially released. Slashdot could do more harm than good by releasing these news early. See these responses what harm it does for releasing news before official release:- for-mozilla-releases/- for-mozilla-releases-part-ii/
http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/11/looking-at-ftp-sites
http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/04/looking-at-ftp-sites
What is amazing is that Slashdot seems to do this with every release. What kind of editors we have here?
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.
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.
It'll hit Software Update when it's actually been released.
A MEGA-anything is a million. It has nothing to do with RAM manufacture, a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Yes, and If you hit a site which causes the browser to crash, you can restart it with every site you've had opened ready to go and......oh wait......
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
about:config, set browser.urlbar.hideGoButton to true
While we're at it, set browser.tabs.closeButton to 3 to revert the tab close buttons to 1.5's behavior.
Not sure about the search button, but for that you can download an extension that behaves in a way you prefer.
Sorry, the SI guys were in before.
A MEGA-anything is a million. It has nothing to do with RAM manufacture, a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.
It's because, as everyone knows, data is slightly compressible. If you define the height of a single bit as 1 arbitary unit, when you stack 1024 of them on top of each other, the weight of all those bits squashes them down so that the stack is only 1000 units high. As soon as you pull one out of the stack to look at it, it springs back to its original size.
More seriously, this "maybe-bytes" rubbish annoys the crap out of me. A megabyte has been 2^20 bytes for all of the 25-odd years I've been in this field, and has been understood to be so by the vast majority of skilled professionals. It's completely normal for specialised fields to slightly redefine some terms for greater utility, and, in computing, powers of two have far more utility than powers of ten.
Besides, SI deals with physical quantities. Bits are abstractions with no physical reality, so they don't fall within the scope of SI.
What would Lemmy do?
see this: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButton s
It does not have your history... but it could if it tried a brute-force attack. Neat trick, btw :-D.
The javascript is at http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/attackapi/build /lib/AttackAPI/HistoryDumper.js and it works by making an 'a' tag, then checking if it was visited or not. So it is able to see if a link has been visited before, but it can't dump your history in a normal fashion. I bet it probably isn't exactly a feature... but hardly something to be paranoid about.
There are two types of people in the world: those who divide people into two types and those who don't.
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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They are still called extensions, Add-ons is the name of the new manager for both extensions and themes. I think it comes from the Firefox Add-ons site.
I am a bit disappointed about how tabs work now too, but the changes are probably for the best. Scrolling the tab strip with my mouse-wheel was I nice discovery. Too bad it's still not easier for non-developers to customize the interface. Opera lets you change the preferences through a user-friendly dialog, but in Firefox you're required to manually type in about:config, then "browser.tabs" and then not be confused with various programming terms.
For myself, I changed browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to something small so it behaves like before 2.0 and browser.tabs.tabCloseButtons to 0 (only ever displays a close button on the active tab). I'm also thinking of adding some CSS to my userChrome.css to have tabs with system appearance again.
Deus est fatalis