Posted on 10/22/2006 9:29:33 AM PDT by Eagle9
Not to be outdone by Microsoft's recent release of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla will release the second major version of its rival Firefox browser on Tuesday, October 24.
According to Mozilla Vice President of Products Christopher Beard, Firefox 2.0, which should be available on Tuesday if all goes according to schedule, includes key new usability features missing in the new IE 7.
(Read PC World's comparative review of IE 7 and Firefox 2.)
Mozilla has also enhanced the popular tabbed browsing feature in 2.0 that Firefox introduced when it emerged two years ago as the first significant rival to IE in years, Beard adds. Tabs allow users to navigate more easily between multiple Web pages when browsing the Internet, and Microsoft added tabs to IE 7 after Firefox's success with the feature.
In Firefox 2.0, Mozilla has added a "close" button on its tabs, as well as new visual features to make the tabs appear more obvious to the user, Beard says.
New usability features in Firefox 2.0 that differentiate it from IE 7 include one that will restore the browser to pages where the user was working if a sudden OS restart is required. "If your browser needs a restart or the OS asks you to reboot, losing all of those Web pages and content is pretty disruptive," Beard notes.
Firefox 2.0 is offering two options for enabling this feature. One way is that, by default, the browser will give the user an option to restore his or her browser sessions if there is an unexpected shutdown; the other is an advanced option to set the browser so that it always restores the last five pages visited before a sudden reboot.
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I choose Firefox and Opera over IE.
I use both, and frankly Firefox opens too many tabs in my opinion. I'm constantly closing them. I don't want every page I view on the internet to remain open indefinitely.
I want full SVG support(gecko is woking on it), built in bittorrent client(opera has that), and a download manager that can actually resume stopped downloads.
I used to use Firefox, and like it just fine (still have it), but since I bought my Mac and use their Safari, and it's just fine for me -- never a single problem, and runs like the wind.
I use firefox exclusively..I like the feature that allows firefox to pretend it's IE for sites that only allow IE..it works on approximately 60% of sites I go to that won't allow FF...
I'm going to have to go with IE 7, because 7 is a higher number than two, so it must be better.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
I'd like to get a mac, but I've installed girlfriend 3.0 which provided an automatic drain on available funds..
BUMP!
At first I was in a quandary as to why this feature would be needed. Then I remembered that before switching to a Mac (from Gateway) I used to have to reboot quite frequently. Excellent feature for Windows sufferers.
I tried IE 7 and found my best experience with it was removing it.
That's sad.
Was Gateway the main problem or was it Windows?
You refer to Sea Monkey as the Mozilla Suite in your first post. Does it have a mail manager ala Netscape? If not, what compromises the suite?
Well, for work I have always used PCs or Silicon Graphics (supplied by my employer...the U.S. Army). In my experience Gateways are the worst of the PCs. My best experience was with Dells. In any event, I've found it to be a fact of life when running Windows that at very inconvenient times you would have to reboot (Even when I run Windows on my Mac using Parallels I have had to reboot the Parallels desktop because of freeze-ups). In July I got sick of the Gateway and purchased a MacBook Pro. The only two times I have had to reboot my Mac when running MacOS X were when Microsoft Entourage froze. Surprise.
I think they decided to change the name of the Mozilla Browser & Email Suite to Sea Monkey. This came about due to the confusion generated by the growth of the Mozilla Firefox browser and Thunderbird, the separate email client. Initially, the decision was to discontinue updating the Mozilla Suite and focus on Firefox & Thunderbird, even though they're separate and many people preferred a Suite. It was then decided to continue work on a suite and call it Sea Monkey. I could be wrong and if so, hopefully someone will correct me.
SeaMonkey
http://www.mozilla.org/products/
SeaMonkey is the all-in-one internet application suite formerly known as the "Mozilla Application Suite", containing a web browser, a mail and newsgroups client, an HTML editor, web development tools, and an IRC chat client in a single software package.
You can still get the Mozilla Suite 1.7.13 at the following link.
http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/
The SeaMonkey Suite 1.0.5 is available at the following link.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
Thanks for the links.
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