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Posted on 10/18/2006 11:09:40 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Mozilla Corp. late Monday launched Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 3 (RC3), likely the last test edition before the open-source browser's final hits the street.
The last major update to Firefox was v. 1.5, which debuted in November 2005.
Users of earlier editions of Firefox 2.0 began receiving the update to RC3 automatically Monday; others can download the third release candidate in verisons for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux from the Mozilla Web site.
Firefox 2.0 features anti-phishing alerts, session restore, spell checking, suggested searches, and several other enhancement and additions to version 1.5. According to the most recent statistics from Web metric firm Net Applications, Mozilla browsers accounted for 12.5 percent of the surfing market in September.
Although reports circulated Tuesday that barring any major bugs, RC3 will also be the final, Mozilla has not set an official deadline. It would not be unprecedented for Mozilla to simply dub a release candidate as the final code; it did the same thing during the last-minute run-up to Firefox 1.5.
Firefox 2.0's rival, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7, is also nearing completion, with the final of that Windows XP browser expected before the end of the month.
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He also said that Web browsers will be one of the key battlegrounds in the future of an evolving and complex set of Internet trends. "We have to view the emergent browser wars as not only places to find information," he said, but as "something that can handle trust and identity" as users are jumping around different sites.
The result? The key feature of future Web browsers might be how they handle users' personal data, and not merely the information they pull from billions of Web sites the world over.
I'm a loyal Mozilla user for years now. How is RC2 for stability? Is it ready for production use?
I'm going to get this RC3 tonight, now that it's so close.
-bflr-
I updated to 2.0 RC3 and it seems quicker than the 1.5 version.
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Hoping to see some users commenting....I haven't tried it yet!
I'm running it now. Built-in spellcheck is very nice. ;OD
I've been using it, pretty sweet. But I do want the one close-tab button again, as I use it to close a bunch of tabs in succession.
In my case RC2 has been more stable than 1.5.0.7.
I've been using it since RC1, and I like it very much. Add-on themes and extensions are already available for 2.0* versions as well. Nice features (built-in RSS reader/application selector, iterated page/tab histories, easy-to-navigate options menu). I wil never go back to IE, even if they paid me. Well, maybe then, but not too likely.
Streaming sites, for instance WABC Radio, launch a separate window for their media player. I have been using Aiyeee (IE) for streaming because when I try to do this in Firefox, I don't get the player controls (stop, play, volume). I get the audio stream most of the time, but no controls.
I just wish they'd fix the dang right vertical scrolling bar when the browser screen is reduced in size.
The disappearing vertical scrolling bar has been a pain since about version 0.7.
I'm running under Linux,....I don't think I have that problem.
Maybe one of your extensions does it to you.
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