News Firefox 2.0 Final out a day early

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  1. Da Dego

    Da Dego Brett Thomas

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  2. BioSniper

    BioSniper Minimodder

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    I cant see any reference to it on the official mozilla site so I may personally just wait till tomorrow.
     
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  3. atanum141

    atanum141 I fapped to your post!

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    Can i just install over my current version?
     
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  4. TomH

    TomH BELTALOWDA!

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    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 :D

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

    I did!
     
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  5. M4RTIN

    M4RTIN What's a Dremel?

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    just updated right now.. only difference i can see is they've moved the little x to kill a tab onto the tab itself
     
    M4RTIN, 23 Oct 2006
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  6. quack

    quack Minimodder

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    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=firefox-2.0&os=win&lang=en-GB
    For en-US: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0&os=win&lang=en-US

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

    BioSniper Minimodder

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    Im not sure I see much point in upgrading myself. I dislike tabs anyway and all the improvements seem to be tabs/visual anyway.
     
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  8. r4tch3t

    r4tch3t hmmmm....

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    On its way now...
     
    r4tch3t, 23 Oct 2006
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  9. TomH

    TomH BELTALOWDA!

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    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 :D

    (I just use my middle mouse button anyhow)
     
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  10. quack

    quack Minimodder

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    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.
     
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  11. DarkReaper

    DarkReaper Alignment: Sarcastic Good

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    What's the extensions compatibility like?
     
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  12. M4RTIN

    M4RTIN What's a Dremel?

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

    RTT #parp

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

    quack Minimodder

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

    Meanmotion bleh Moderator

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    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.
     
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  16. sadffffff

    sadffffff Minimodder

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

    antiHero ReliXmas time!

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    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.
     
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  18. Sim0n

    Sim0n rm -rf /

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

    oasked Stuck in (better) mud

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    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? :)
     
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  20. Sparrowhawk

    Sparrowhawk Wetsander

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