Firefox 2.0 Beta Set To Launch This Week

sci-tech-today.com ^ | July 11, 2006 9:20AM | Gwendolyn Mariano

[Clara Lou]

When some people get bored, they eat. Me? I go look at extensions. I really do use the ones I have, though. My son would tease me unmercifully if he saw how many I have.

[Echo Talon]

yea i noticed that with snapper, in the preferences... im using snapper 1.3 with linux works fine. :)

[CFC__VRWC]

bflr

[LibertarianInExile]

I rarely have crashes with Firefox...even with 20+tabs open. I can't remember the last time it caused me any trouble. Meanwhile, I can't even get IE to open a link in a new window without locking it up.

I have no idea what Firefox you run or what you're running it on, but mine has been a phenomenal improvement over IE in speed and reliability, on every platform I've used it on (XP, 2000, and ME--yes, even ME!). I won't ever go back to IE as my primary browser, and now, I only use IE when I am forced to by websites that are too dumb to consider that 10% of the market and adapt their sites to it.

I am curious about your crashing situation, seriously. Is there something program wise or hardware wise you've been running on that would make your system more volatile, at least in regards to Firefox?

[LibertarianInExile]

"FF in windows VERY VERY RARELY CRASHES(but more than IE), it crashes in linux quite often(at least once during a 3 hour session) and I have tried MANY MANY different versions of linux with the same results...."

Sounds to me like your problem isn't with FF but with whatever Linux build you're running. I'll say again that I've had fewer problems with FF than I did with IE on any of my Windows machines, and leave it at that.

[Echo Talon]

oh dont get me wrong, I like Firefox better then IE for functionality... the new IE with tabbed browsing is ok. FF on Windows is ok but i really dont think its as fast as IE, its nice and the features are great just dont think its as fast.
FF on linux crashes pretty frequently(the browser doesn't crash so much but when you open a new browser sometimes its funky) this has happened with a few different versions of linux.

[KoRn]

"and an integrated spell checker."

Wewt!

[LibertarianInExile]

Freaky--FF on my windows computer is WAAAAAY faster than IE.

I am at a complete loss as to why the makers of FF would not want it to be even BETTER with Linux than it is with Windows, but hey, if you say so. The only time I've ever had problems with FF was using a Linux-based disk to surf from the CD drive instead of the hard drive, and that was I think primarily because of slow drive speed and low RAM, not FF or Linux. But I don't have Linux experience yet. I'll take your word for it that it's glitchy with Linux and MS on your 'puter.

[SamAdams76]

Netscape with two tenths of one percent of the browser market. Now that's why I call a total thrashing. Whatever happened to the cocky Mark Andresson anyhow?

[Echo Talon]

FF, is better in windows than with linux IMHO.. its pretty much perfect in windows... every once in while in windows it will crash... hell i guess thats not bad for as much as i use it.. I dont really get that many *hard crashes* with FF in linux just strange behavior sometimes when FF starts in linux, like sometimes for some reason 2 firefox browsers will open instead of just one and the second one will just have an hour glass then it will just disappear after a minute or so... you know weird stuff like that... once FF in linux is up and running i rarely have a problem.. im using it right now on linux as a matter of fact. :D Mepis 6 RC2

[zeugma]

I'm suprised none of you mentioned Xinha Here!

It makes posting well-formatted posts on FR a breeze.

[martin_fierro]

Kewl -- trying it out now.

[Echo Talon]

oh wow

• 1 thats pretty neat and
• 2 its kinda cool :)
  

[bwteim]

I'll check it out later, thanks for the tip.