news.yahoo.com— Not to be outdone by Microsoft's recent release of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla will release the second major version of its rival Firefox browser on Tuesday, October 24.
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Too soon, they are gonna have a buggy release just to compete against IE7.Since when has Firefox been about competition, it is suppose to be about choice of a better product.Seems like Mozilla Foundation is starting to think a little bit too much like Micro$oft.
Mozilla has been working on Firefox 2 for a long time before now and has had three release candidates. I'm not sure why you think it's too soon for a final release. Please elaborate.
innacurate article description. Mozilla's release does not and has never had anything to do with Microsoft's release "schedule". If anything, it's the other way around.
Archer:Supporting more standards isn't enough, considering they didn't support many standards to begin with. If you want to actually support standards, you have to support a hell of a lot more than even IE7 does now, considering that EVERY other major browser (Safari, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror) has about 10x the standards support. If you want evidence, just check out my page under IE and under every other damn browser to see what I mean: <a class="user" href="http://lights2dx.net/testing">http://lights2dx.net/testing</a>
No way Firefox is faster than Camino or Safari. On neither my PPC mini or my MacBook does Firefox load faster or render pages faster than Camino or Safari. Not 1.5, not the 2.0 RCs.Maybe it's because I use FF for developing and have a dozen extensions installed, who knows. If you use FF without extensions, well you may as well go for Camino in that case then.
hurricaneOct 21, 2006
Too soon, they are gonna have a buggy release just to compete against IE7.Since when has Firefox been about competition, it is suppose to be about choice of a better product.Seems like Mozilla Foundation is starting to think a little bit too much like Micro$oft.
omaryakOct 21, 2006
Mozilla has been working on Firefox 2 for a long time before now and has had three release candidates. I'm not sure why you think it's too soon for a final release. Please elaborate.
Closed AccountOct 21, 2006
Don't you guys want Ice Weasal? It'll be what all the cool cats will be using. ;)
jonnyqOct 21, 2006
innacurate article description. Mozilla's release does not and has never had anything to do with Microsoft's release "schedule". If anything, it's the other way around.
shinigami2057Oct 21, 2006
Archer:Supporting more standards isn't enough, considering they didn't support many standards to begin with. If you want to actually support standards, you have to support a hell of a lot more than even IE7 does now, considering that EVERY other major browser (Safari, Firefox, Opera, Konqueror) has about 10x the standards support. If you want evidence, just check out my page under IE and under every other damn browser to see what I mean: <a class="user" href="http://lights2dx.net/testing">http://lights2dx.net/testing</a>
ironylivesOct 21, 2006
ditoa is correct. Tho' its not been properly promoted, FF2.0RC3 offers four, different 'Close Tab' scenarios. See related.:<a class="user" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.tabs.closeButtons</a>
nofxjunkeeOct 21, 2006
No way Firefox is faster than Camino or Safari. On neither my PPC mini or my MacBook does Firefox load faster or render pages faster than Camino or Safari. Not 1.5, not the 2.0 RCs.Maybe it's because I use FF for developing and have a dozen extensions installed, who knows. If you use FF without extensions, well you may as well go for Camino in that case then.
littlegiantOct 23, 2006
Oh boy... here we go again... Another delightful round of bumping extensions to make them compatible with the latest version.. Sheesh...