Firefox 2.0!
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Firefox 2.0!
It's here!
Not many changes; a few UI updates, this cool feature that faintly underlines misspellings, and a bunch of other stuff (don't use me as your primary source of information )
Not many changes; a few UI updates, this cool feature that faintly underlines misspellings, and a bunch of other stuff (don't use me as your primary source of information )
- tr1p1ea
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Wow, pretty cool.
More information an a download link available here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/launch/?ut ... postlaunch
More information an a download link available here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/launch/?ut ... postlaunch
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- Jim e
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No not really, just faster and smaller.threefingeredguy wrote:*cough*Opera is better*cough*
Honestly I was all hyped for IE7, but of course that requires sp2, so no go for me.
I've had a few problems with 2.0 since my update. I few sites I used to study for school didn't work completely properly, especially bad since I thought today was a test day. It doesn't really seem all that lighter than the previous versions, and a few extensions broke...ones that I liked. Extensions are the only reason I consider fire fox worthwhile at all. Otherwise its slower more bloated than other browsers.
This spell check feature is nice though.
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And more secure, more standards compliant, and less CPU intensive. But I guess you can't live without adblock...oh wait, Opera has that built-in. I guess you need your popup blocker...oh wait, Opera has that built-in. I guess you need your Webdev toolbar...oh wait, you can download it here. I honestly don't see the appeal of the bloatware known as Firefox when there is a much more capable browser available for the same price.Jim e wrote:No not really, just faster and smaller.threefingeredguy wrote:*cough*Opera is better*cough*
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threefingeredguy wrote:And more secure, more standards compliant, and less CPU intensive. But I guess you can't live without adblock...oh wait, Opera has that built-in. I guess you need your popup blocker...oh wait, Opera has that built-in. I guess you need your Webdev toolbar...oh wait, you can download it here. I honestly don't see the appeal of the bloatware known as Firefox when there is a much more capable browser available for the same price.Jim e wrote:No not really, just faster and smaller.threefingeredguy wrote:*cough*Opera is better*cough*
I got a bunch of add ons installed already on FF, Flashblock, Adblock, Chatzilla, FlashGot, NoScript, FDM integrateor, video downloader, and so on. Are all of those available for opera too?
Life is getting better.
i like it better than IE7threefingeredguy wrote:And more secure, more standards compliant, and less CPU intensive. But I guess you can't live without adblock...oh wait, Opera has that built-in. I guess you need your popup blocker...oh wait, Opera has that built-in. I guess you need your Webdev toolbar...oh wait, you can download it here. I honestly don't see the appeal of the bloatware known as Firefox when there is a much more capable browser available for the same price.Jim e wrote:No not really, just faster and smaller.threefingeredguy wrote:*cough*Opera is better*cough*
for some reason, Opera crashes on my system. I don't know why.
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Shadow Phoenix wrote:Flashblock, Adblock, Chatzilla, FlashGot, NoScript, FDM integrateor, video downloader, and so on. Are all of those available for opera too?
- Flashblock - you can enable and disable plugins from the F12 context menu (global setting) or on a per-site basis.
- Adblock - right-click, block content.
- Chatzilla - Opera has an IRC client built-in (along with the mail client).
- NoScript - you can enable/disable plugins, JavaScript, cookies and various other settings on a per-site basis (right-click Edit Site Preferences).
- Not sure what FDM is, but Opera has an excellent download manager with pause/resume/restart/quick download features (+built in BitTorrent client).
IE7 stupidly overrides the system default for ClearType (XP's sub-pixel font antialiasing) and enables it. You can disable it in the Internet Options control panel. The quality of ClearType varies depending on monitor hardware.coelurus wrote:IE7 offers disgustingly blurry views last time I saw it when my buddy used it, never gonna look at it again.
Whether you like IE7 or not, it's hard to not admit that it is, at least, a rather large improvement over IE6. They do admit that CSS support still isn't great, but they've fixed a lot of the bugs that were in IE6.
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Proof-of-concept of Microsummaries in FF2... pretty cool, actually:
Cemetech Microsummary Bookmarks
I've had it for two days now, and I haven't had it crash once. Pageloads (ie, page rendering) seem even faster than 1.5, and the spell-check is just pwny.
Cemetech Microsummary Bookmarks
I've had it for two days now, and I haven't had it crash once. Pageloads (ie, page rendering) seem even faster than 1.5, and the spell-check is just pwny.