Firefox 2 Launch - Interview With Chris Beard

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 24, 2006 @01:54AM from the moving-on-up dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "This afternoon Firefox 2 will be 'officially' launched. In anticipation of the unveiling, ReadWriteWeb has a brief interview with Chris Beard — Mozilla Vice President of Products. Subjects discussed include the growing enterprise usage of Firefox, the importance of user experience and security, Mozilla's theory behind Web feeds and why they haven't included an integrated RSS Reader, the growing add-on ecosystem, offline browsing, and finally a little about the future of the browser." From the article: "It felt to us like a 2.0 product, particularly if we looked at it from what 1.0 was, to 2.0. It was like half steps, from 1.0 to 1.5 to 2.0. It's also a very stable and rock solid release - it's really ready for the masses. So it really does feel like a 2, as opposed to a 1.x product. Firefox 2 has, we estimate, between 3-4 times the number of fixes than FF 1.5 did. And that doesn't just include fixes and bugs, but all of the feature work as well as memory, stability and security issues. But there's certainly a lot in it which makes it really solid." Also on the site is a concise review of the product, and an overview of Marketing Firefox 2.0.

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great product by disasm · 2006-10-24 01:56 · Score: 0, Redundant

can't wait for firefox 3! Sam
Why wait? by setuid_w00t · 2006-10-24 02:18 · Score: 0, Redundant

Download the English-US windows binary here:
http://goestoeleven.org/misc/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.o rg/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-U S/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.exe

I downloaded it yesterday and posted it on my web space hoping that people will download it here instead of hammering the official FTP before it has propogated to all of the official mirrors.