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Firefox 2 has been available since sometime last night (though you had to use a sneaky way of getting it, downloading it from Mozilla's FTP server. Such intrigue!) but now it is totally, completely officially available. For reals, as the kids say in just such circumstances.Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Pete said 9:33PM on 10-24-2006
I've had firefox 2 for a while now... Like there's been all this talk about firefox 2 but when i checked my version of firefox a few days ago it said firefox 2.0... the last install if firefox i could think of was like 2 weeks ago... maybe im just crazy
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Joel Heflin said 9:33PM on 10-24-2006
Already got it. It seems to be much faster loading pages.
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Jordan said 10:30PM on 10-24-2006
If you're like me and have it highly customized so it seems more "mac-like" with extensions and themes - you might want to wait as Firefox 2.0 renders most of my extensions utterly useless.
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boza said 10:47PM on 10-24-2006
Well, i downloaded it a couple of hours ago and it has crash 4 times and i'm just surfing around well maybe we have to wait for 2.0.1 this version sucks
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Riscky said 11:01PM on 10-24-2006
I've been using some optimized/tuned builds [mine for my intel system ElFurbe for PPC] for a few weeks now... well nearly a month now... full time and I've never had any issues. I tend to go lite on the plug-ins so I haven't noticed any issues... and in most cases new plug-ins should be out or out any day now.
But I shall make a few points:
1.) I'm not a "mac" like snob, yet my first computer was an Apple //[ and I've been exclusively been using Mac OS X since the 6.x days... and was one of the very first to switch to OS X full time (back in the Public Beta days) so I'm not switcher...
2.) If you want "mac" like wait till Firefox 3 (find a copy of Minefeild laying around) even better just snag Camino... and Camino 1.1 is based off the 1.8 branch so it will have all the gecko goodies Firefox2 brings to the table.
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ToeKnee said 11:01PM on 10-24-2006
Pete-
you were probably running one of the 2.0 Release Candidates, they have been downloadable for a while. This is the official release, and since I downloaded it "early" yesterday, I have been running it hard through its paces, and although a few of my favorite extensions are not available/compatible yet, I really like this update!
boza-- my Firefox has proved even more stable than it was before. No crashes for me yet. And NO spinning beachballs, like Safari, still, after all these years.
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Chris said 11:53PM on 10-24-2006
I use camino at the moment and like it a lot... Does this browser work better ?
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Ed T said 11:56PM on 10-24-2006
Mine crashed about 10 times during the course of the day. Too many spinning beach balls having to force quit.
I ended up rolling back
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morgan said 12:21AM on 10-25-2006
is it universal, and if not, why wont they release a universal version?
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Andy Lee said 1:24AM on 10-25-2006
Looks nice, but has an annoying bug: if you have "always show tab" turned on, Command-W doesn't close a window with just one tab. I wonder if clearing my prefs would fix this. Twiddling a pref did fix another seeming bug.
The other thing for me is that it doesn't work with SessionSaver.
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ToeKnee said 1:38AM on 10-25-2006
Morgan-
Firefox has been universal for some time now. I forgot which version added that, but it's been a while. I assume you could have downloaded it easily yourself to find that out.
Andy Lee-
SessionSaver functionality is built-in to Firefox 2.0. See preferences-->Main--> "When Firefox starts..."
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Chris said 2:58AM on 10-25-2006
Locks up on exit for me (window disappears, menu disappears, but dock shows it to still be running and force quit is the only option).
Might be an extension issue, but for now I'm back to 1.5
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Mark D. said 3:24AM on 10-25-2006
Jordan:
Or you can grab the Nightly Tester Tools extension and forcibly enable those extensions and skins. I've used it for some time on both my macs and pcs for when I use community builds that break extensions.
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Mark D. said 3:34AM on 10-25-2006
Just wanted to add: forcing extensions sometimes works fine, and sometimes they just refuse to properly function, it is still worth a shot, though, if you want to try and upgrade before everything is updated.
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Jon said 4:50AM on 10-25-2006
An update will be more welcome when the add ons are updated as well.
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Yuusou said 5:52AM on 10-25-2006
No thanks. I'll wait for Camino 1.1
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Andy Lee said 10:33AM on 10-25-2006
Thanks, ToeKnee!
The Command-W thing is still annoying, though.
Firefox also renders some MacUpdate pages badly -- like the one for Firefox: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10700. It puts a big blank space above the app description. This was true pre-2.0 as well.
I see there's now CaminoSession, which is supposedly like SessionSaver for Camino. I'll have to check that out -- it was one of the things keeping me from using Camino as my primary browser.
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carlo said 7:36PM on 10-26-2006
does it work with chris peidericks web developer toolbar? Anyone?
the pre-release candidates didnt.
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peter ibsen said 1:19PM on 10-25-2006
i think its great my own website loads eay faster.. than before.. and it kind of feels more shiny..
I havent had a crash yet..
p.
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Steve D said 5:53PM on 10-27-2006
I love it so far. I upgraded from 1.0.7 (I think). So far no probs.
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