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Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let's-slashdot-mozilla dept.

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.)

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  1. Its not a day early by Tama00 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Snappy and uses less memory by Sarusa · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Firefox 3.0 by RobertF · · Score: 4, Informative

    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!

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  4. BitTorrent links by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Official Mozilla BitTorrent site:
    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_F inal_EN_US
    http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_F inal_EN_GB
    (The first link is US version, second is GB version)

    (posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)

    1. Re:BitTorrent links by WilliamSChips · · Score: 4, Informative

      The new Firefox has a spell checker(one of the first things I disabled). There are spelling differences between US and UK English.

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  5. How to get rid of the hideous tab bar gradients: by karmaflux · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.
    1. Copy the /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
    2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory.
    3. Now copy the /chrome/classic.jar file from the NEW firefox install to ~/fff/2.
    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 /usr/lib/firefox2/chrome/.
    7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!

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  6. PLEASE stop linking to unreleased builds by BZ · · Score: 5, Informative

    See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2006/10/the_a ntirelease.html for the Mozilla build team's take on articles like this one.

  7. OFFICIAL STATEMENT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  8. md5sums by jonasj · · Score: 4, Informative

    dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0.tar.gz
    dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz

    don't think there's been that many changes :-)

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  9. Re:Software Update by BZ · · Score: 4, Informative

    It'll hit Software Update when it's actually been released.

  10. Re:New feature worth having (resume session) by Alcari · · Score: 4, Informative

    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......