Posted on 10/21/2006 7:35:20 PM PDT by quidnunc
Firefox 2.0, the foremost rival to Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser, is set for release Tuesday afternoon, said its producer, the not-for-profit Mozilla Corp.
The free 5-megabyte browser, available in 39 languages for Windows, Mac and Linux computers, will be downloadable from getfirefox.com, the Mountain View, Calif., company said.
The new release of the two-year-old product includes new features but strives to retain its simplicity of design and operation, Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of engineering, said earlier this week.
It incorporates anti-phishing technology to prevent the deceptive disclosure of personal information. It restores windows, tabs, in-progress downloads and text typed into online forms if any of those are interrupted by a system crash. And it corrects the spelling of words entered on Web pages.
Version 2.0 also improves on the tabbed-windows interface that Mozilla innovated and that Microsoft introduced for the first time last week with IE7, its biggest upgrade since 2001.
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(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...
Bookmarked 'til Tuesday.
What browser do you have?
Interesting. The new IE is good, but still a step behind Moz 1.5 I use.
I read a few articles before about how firefox 2.0 was going to be delayed to December, November at the earliest. I'm wondering if the official IE7 release caused the developers to rush to get FF2 out the door.
..I hope I can open pdf files with it...
Is Dvorak a trustworthy site? I'm not familiar with it.
I have a Mac G5 w/ OS 10.4.8, so Safari is my default browser, but I also have Firefox, Camino, Opera and IE5 (whikch I virtually never use anymore).
Each has their uses since Since Safari is persinickety about some sites.
I think Netscape Navigator also came pre-installed on my computer but I've never gone to the bother of activating it.
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If you don't trust Dvorak I believe you can get the RC3 version from the Firefox site.
He's probably not trustworthy - but he is one of the most famous journalists in the computer industry. He appears weekly on CNBC and writes for Dow Jones MarketWatch.
He has a weekly video program at crankygeeks.com
Been running it for a few days now. Works like a champ. Cant wait for the new skins and Tab Browser Prefs to show up!
Is anyone using Comodo Antispam with ThunderBird? I need to get mine hooked up.
Or maybe those stories were disinformation, Firefox 2.0 has been ready for months, and they were just waiting to steal all of Microsoft's thunder.
I like firefox and use it. One of the biggest gripes I have in realtion to the Mozilla suite is that firefox makes it so hard to re-enable cookies at a site that has been blocked. In Mozilla you can just click a button that says "re-enable cookies for this site". or "unblock this site" or whatever it is. In firefox you have to figure out the address for the cookie and copy and paste it into a dialog box. Or you can go through a list of zillions of cookies on the block list and try to find it. I don't know why they decided to make it so hard in firefox.
Does anyone know if the auto update in firefox 1.5 will update to firefox 2 automatically? Or will it have to be manualy installed? Thanks
Same day as fedora core 6
Core 6 was supposed to be out last tuesday but it was delayed a week, I almost wish they would delay one more to get ff2 on the distro..
Oooh. Daddy like.
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