tech.cybernetnews.com— Mozilla has posted the first release candidate for Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 that is scheduled for release on Tuesday.
Jul 8, 2006View in Crawl 4
Actually, Vienna (available on sourceforge.net) is an excellent RSS reader for Mac. Additionally, the new version of Firefox cleaned up the handling of RSS feeds so you can automatically dump them in your feed reader--I was able to do that with Safari, but it was a cumbersome process with Firefox 1.5x...not anymore with 2.0 :)
This version rocks and it's noticeable faster on Windows. Impressed ... I may have to order a Firefox Polo Shirt -- Microshaft's IE7 cannot compare to Firefox.
Why does a new release HAVE to be groundbreaking in the UI?FF2 contains A LOT of bug fixes, making it a lot faster, they really worked a lot on memleaks, which is important. Yep it contains a few features from popular extensions making the browser better from the start, what the hell is wrong what that?
FF2 is still nowhere near as fast as Opera or anywhere near as functional. Operan 9 destroys anything FF2 will do hands down. Screw FF, it's the noobs browser. If you want a fully customizable UI and a browser that beats anything else in speed and has most of the things FF needs an extension for installed by default and isn't a memory hog go with Opera. If you want the opposite, stick with FF and suffer.
cornstarchJul 9, 2006
OK jackass my point is that it's not "now available" it's been available for some time.
darkdataJul 9, 2006
ZOMG ITS FROM OPERA....Who cares this is about firefox and not opera. If you don't like it don't click the link.
zachwsJul 9, 2006
adblock works for this release on its own (not adblock plus)
Closed AccountJul 9, 2006
Whoops - the spell checker doesn't recognise the word firefox. :S
dcmacheadJul 9, 2006
Actually, Vienna (available on sourceforge.net) is an excellent RSS reader for Mac. Additionally, the new version of Firefox cleaned up the handling of RSS feeds so you can automatically dump them in your feed reader--I was able to do that with Safari, but it was a cumbersome process with Firefox 1.5x...not anymore with 2.0 :)
mikebbJul 9, 2006
This version rocks and it's noticeable faster on Windows. Impressed ... I may have to order a Firefox Polo Shirt -- Microshaft's IE7 cannot compare to Firefox.
scottehJul 9, 2006
Why would you expect a new GUI ? Opera's hardly changed from 8.x -> 9.x.
erroneusJul 9, 2006
Why does a new release HAVE to be groundbreaking in the UI?FF2 contains A LOT of bug fixes, making it a lot faster, they really worked a lot on memleaks, which is important. Yep it contains a few features from popular extensions making the browser better from the start, what the hell is wrong what that?
mvprj84Jul 9, 2006Submitter
I have also posted a tweak guide for those people looking to tweak Beta 1<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/software/How_To_Tweak_Some_Of_Firefox_2.0_Beta_1_s_New_Features">http://digg.com/software/How_To_Tweak_Some_Of_Firefox_2.0_Beta_1_s_New_Features</a>I thought it would help some people out there.
creoleplaneJul 9, 2006
FF2 is still nowhere near as fast as Opera or anywhere near as functional. Operan 9 destroys anything FF2 will do hands down. Screw FF, it's the noobs browser. If you want a fully customizable UI and a browser that beats anything else in speed and has most of the things FF needs an extension for installed by default and isn't a memory hog go with Opera. If you want the opposite, stick with FF and suffer.
wamattJul 12, 2006
feels really snappy on OSX now.
macewanAug 14, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b1/mac/en-US/">http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b1/mac/en-US/</a>for OSX