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BLACKOUT said 9:12PM on 8-31-2006
it's quite nice
although, i don't like the new icons.
but whatever i suppose.
that's what firefox is for
someone will make a mod that i'll like.
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Jason P said 9:18PM on 8-31-2006
i wish they'd stick to the mac mantra of putting tab close buttons on the LEFT of the tabs, just like camino/safari. If it wasn't for this, i'd probably use firefox instead of camino.
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spil said 10:04PM on 8-31-2006
Doesn't firefox block banner ads?
I'm fine with my good old brushed metal safari. I'm sad that they are getting rid of the brushed madal.
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Patrick said 9:57AM on 9-01-2006
Has anyone who's tried this measured its performance against Camino/Safari? I'm one of those who tried using OS X Firefox and was really disappointed by how sluggish it was compared to Camino & Safari (I use Camino currently, but there are things I miss about Firefox and would love to use it again if the performance is better in 2.0.) I'd guess it was just this machine (MacBook with stock amount of RAM, I really need to upgrade), but searching around for information found a lot of people with the same complaints.
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narco said 10:36PM on 8-31-2006
Firefox 2 fails to fix the most important bug in version 1: the "sucks" bug. Camino is much better -- I can't believe Firefox is worse compared to Safari.
Fishes,
narco.
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Tony said 10:47PM on 8-31-2006
This is great. Unlike many of the "it's ugly" crowd (is it my imagination, or is there a LOT of that going on here lately?) I really like FF.
I like the new tabs. I'm used to having a close button on each tab, since I've been using the Tab Mix Plus extension for a while, but it would be nice to have it built in. As for which side the close button is on? Who cares! I like that it'll be the same whether I'm on OSX, Win, or Linux.
I've given Camino a whirl, but there's one MAJOR fault: it doesn't support extensions! Extensions are the #1 thing that makes FF so great. The functionality I have through my particular mix of installed extensions cannot be matched by ANY other browser. Period. Every time I find myself using another browser, I very quickly discover what's NOT there and go back to FF.
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fredouil said 10:54PM on 8-31-2006
Arrh Adblock is not yet compatible with FF2, i will have to wait, browsing with this extension is really pain in the ass.
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cmlp said 11:43PM on 8-31-2006
You do realize there is a beta of Firefox 3.0 out also...
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/?C=M;O=D
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nevrozel said 2:30AM on 9-01-2006
What you mean is that there is an Alpha 3.0 release...
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henrrrik said 4:26AM on 9-01-2006
Adblock Plus works with 2.0b2. Link: http://adblockplus.org/en/
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Mr Lizard said 7:07AM on 9-01-2006
#7: Version 3 is not yet in beta form. It is an alpha test version for developers.
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Jimmy said 7:09AM on 9-01-2006
The new UI looks terrible. I thougt they were set on making Firefox feel more like a native app on OS X, not the other way around. This seems to break just about every UI convention available.
The icon sizes are 24x24 for the big variants and 16x16 for the small (instead of the conventional 32x32 and 24x24), and the icons themselves looks washed out and bland. The tab close button is on the right instead of the left, like in any other tabbed OS X app, and the search field has a new look that doesn't look at all like the standard OS X search field. Just to name a few things.
Let's hope that Aronnax will have some themes available for the 2.0 beta soon: http://www.takebacktheweb.org/
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Joe Cernelli said 7:02AM on 9-01-2006
Actually, 3.0 isn't even an alpha release, it is a nightly build that won't become an official release until Mozilla considers it one...
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scralpha said 8:01AM on 9-01-2006
For folks that use more than one OS regularly, I think Firefox is king. You don't have to remember 3 different sets of keyboard shortcuts and you get all those lovely extensions. I tried Safari and Camino, and they are pretty and fast, but seem neutered when coming from Firefox.
It does look a little out of place in OS X, but there are themes for that (I think they were even featured on TUAW). Icons are a non-issue as Firefox makes it super simple to change them to whatever you want.
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Taras said 9:56AM on 9-01-2006
Looks really beautifully...
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David Evans said 10:06AM on 9-01-2006
The new icons look terrible. Definitely need replacements asap. The tab close icon looks like its' from windows 3.1 and it's in the wrong place. I wish there was a more proactive way to get extension developers to upgrade their apps.
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Lars said 1:37PM on 9-01-2006
People bitching about a close button and it's location should wise up and realise that you can close tabs by clicking ANY part of a tab with the middle / scroll button.
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Sejuru said 3:05PM on 9-01-2006
Does anyone know of an Aqua or MacOS-esque theme like Aquafox that's compatible with Beta 2? Aquafox is not compatible, nor is Aqua Tint.
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hls said 4:13PM on 9-01-2006
A big advantage of 2.0b2, in my mind, is that the bookmarks menu now shows favicons. I had been missing that feature from Camino. Favicons in the bookmarks bar would be nice too, but that's not a big deal to me.
Camino does have some enhancements available, but there are things about Firefox I prefer, such as the superior find-as-you-type interface.
I think the visual enhancements in 2.0b2 are terrible. The "end caps" on the search bar and location bar may not look like butons to newbies, and are ugly to the rest of us. Now there is no way to get rid of the "Go" button or the "Search" button because they are part of the same UI element as the location/search fields. There is still no clear button (an X, like in Camino) in the search bar. The icons look washed-out because they get more saturated when you mouse over them, which I think is a generally poor UI principle. The buttons should appear button-like to users without them needing to scrub over the interface elements to see them light up.
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