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Da Dego · 23rd Oct 2006, 16:57

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/10...t_a_day_early/

BioSniper · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:02

I cant see any reference to it on the official mozilla site so I may personally just wait till tomorrow.

atanum141 · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:06

Can i just install over my current version?

TomH · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:06

Using it now and it's going fine. FTP was very, very slow so I used the en-GB link Rich provided, which was super-quick

Can't see any spell-checking as I'm typing this though

Quote:

Originally Posted by atanum141

Can i just install over my current version?

I did!

M4RTIN · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:07

just updated right now.. only difference i can see is they've moved the little x to kill a tab onto the tab itself

quack · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:08

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Originally Posted by BioSniper

I cant see any reference to it on the official mozilla site so I may personally just wait till tomorrow.

Or you could just get it now, since this IS the official release. Mozilla have always put it on their servers early so that it can be propagated before it's properly announced.

If you're already running RC3, you don't need to do anything. RC3 = Final.

If the mirrors on the main site become slow, try these links instead...
For en-GB: http://download.mozilla.org/?product...win&lang=en-GB
For en-US: http://download.mozilla.org/?product...win&lang=en-US

They'll give you a nice fast mirror instead of everyone hammering the same one.

BioSniper · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:09

Im not sure I see much point in upgrading myself. I dislike tabs anyway and all the improvements seem to be tabs/visual anyway.

r4tch3t · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:14

On its way now...

TomH · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:15

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Originally Posted by M4RTIN

just updated right now.. only difference i can see is they've moved the little x to kill a tab onto the tab itself

There are improvements under the surface, I'm sure the changelog would explain more.

You can actually set the tab behaviour back to the 1.5.x way:

Enter 'about:config' into the URI bar,
Scroll down to 'browser.tab.closebuttons', and change the value to 3.

Hey presto, no annoying red crosses on each tab

(I just use my middle mouse button anyhow)

quack · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:16

Tabs are awesome!

Not all improvements have to be visual, there's been SO much done behind the scenes.

JavaScript 1.7, hundreds of bug fixes, in-built spell checker, anti-phishing protection, and sooooo much more.

DarkReaper · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:19

What's the extensions compatibility like?

M4RTIN · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:19

its already starting to use a lot of ram.. i see the memory leaks havent been 100% fixed

RTT · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:29

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Originally Posted by M4RTIN

its already starting to use a lot of ram.. i see the memory leaks havent been 100% fixed

It's apparently the image rendering engine of all things. v3 should fix that

quack · 23rd Oct 2006, 17:45

So far it's using less memory on my PC that 1.5.0.x was. This might be a case of YMMV.

Meanmotion · 23rd Oct 2006, 18:12

There seems to be a surprising amount of cynicism here. I'm surprised. Quite a few extensions aren't working yet but otherwise there's no reason not to upgrade. I think it's a nice improvement.

With regards to the memory 'leaks' I've had no problems with runaway memory usage, so far, just the inherent increase in memory usage you get from using many tabs.

sadffffff · 23rd Oct 2006, 18:21

meh, i'll upgrade my browser whenever microsoft puts it on automatic updates. i assume that update will be ie7

antiHero · 23rd Oct 2006, 18:36

Some off the updates are not working yet for me but the spell check is a charm. As for the memory "leak", for me it uses slightly more ram then usual. Lets see what happens.

Sim0n · 23rd Oct 2006, 19:03

Erm, the compile date for this is 20061010, that makes it 13 days old now, and actually the RC2 from memory... ?

oasked · 23rd Oct 2006, 19:04

I prefer the old skin over this new skin, but otherwise v2.0 is pretty nice.

EDIT: Grrr. ALT-S now seems to open up the History menu. Anyway to set it back to the standard function of submitting posts?

Sparrowhawk · 23rd Oct 2006, 19:21

Honestly, I like it. Most of what has changed is behind the scenes, but it seems to work a lot better.

23rd Oct 2006, 16:57	#1
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23rd Oct 2006, 17:09	#7
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23rd Oct 2006, 17:07	#5
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23rd Oct 2006, 17:16	#10
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23rd Oct 2006, 18:21	#16
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23rd Oct 2006, 18:36	#17
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23rd Oct 2006, 19:03	#18
Sim0n Ahhh Jimlad Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 1,109	Erm, the compile date for this is 20061010, that makes it 13 days old now, and actually the RC2 from memory... ?

23rd Oct 2006, 19:04	#19
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23rd Oct 2006, 19:21	#20
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