Final Version of Mozilla Firefox 2 Will Be Released Oct. 24

YahooNews - PCWorld.com ^ | October 20, 2006 6:00 PM ET | Elizabeth Montalbano,

[clyde asbury]

Unless its first release was 0.8, it must be a bit older than that. I've been using it for two years and I started at v. 0.8 - which at the time was the latest release.

The new release of the two-year-old product...

[backslacker]

Statistics from Stockcharts.com Interesting stat from their newsletter, ChartWatchers - Oct. 21, 2006 issue:

Over 60% of our users use Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Only 14% use Mozilla Firefox, which - on a personal note - I strongly recommend everyone use. --Chip Anderson

http://stockcharts.com/commentary/archives/cww20061021m.html

[jwh_Denver]

"because 7 is a higher number than two"

2 is better than 7 because it took them 5 more times to get it right, if Microsoft did, which I doubt.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Have you tried Tab Mix Plus? It has a feature where you can specify if new links are opened in new tabs or the same one. Plus I've used a million times their feature that restores a closed tab that I didn't mean to close, with a button on the toolbar.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1122/

[Dog Gone]

That sounds great! I think I'll wait to install it until after 2.0 comes out, but it looks like it's the solution to my one complaint about Firefox.

[TomGuy]

Per Majorgeeks.com, Firefox 2.0 final has been released.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Mozilla_Firefox_d2248.html

2.0 information is not yet showing up on the Mozilla/Firefox website, but the download link is working:

http://majorgeeks.com/downloadget.php?id=2248&file=1&evp=7b5b67cedfd41e9782a30d14601a0cb7

[Pylon]

I have been using the 2.0 beta and love it, fast and clean. Tried IE 7 to compare the 2 and hated it.

[Mr. Blonde]

I like Safari better if only because it doesn't expand to take up the whole desktop. It is such a tiny issue, but I have grown to love this one feature, and the only one that really differentiates it from FireFox to me.

[TomGuy]

It looks like they've fixed the memory leak in Firefox 2.

One of the early 1.5 versions frequently used up over 500kb of memory. Ver 2 is holding at around 61kb. Quite a significant improvement.

I just hope they've fixed the disappearing vertical slider bar when the main window is resized to less than 1/2 of the monitor screen.

[RayChuang88]

TomGuy,

I would hold up getting Firefox 2.0 until the Mozilla Foundation officially releases it. The reason is simple: these "early" releases may still be the Release Candidate 3 and/or contain a virus.