reviews.cnet.com— Before trying out the new alpha version, I suggest looking at these screenshots to see which features are added.
Mar 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
All software version numbers are arbitrary. It's really a matter of someone (or a group of people) saying, "Let's assign a new version number." I use a dozen excellent, reliable products that are on revisions less than 1.0 I know of some crappy products that are on revision 11.0 or later.
Firefox 2 is really just a small UI revision that's being released to buy time for Gecko 1.9 development for Firefox 3. Gecko 1.9 is where all the new features will be. I agree Firefox 2 should be called something more like Firefox 1.6. And yes many of the new ui changes are currently available as extensions that's the way the extension ecosystem is supposed to work, popular/innovative/successful extensions get absorbed into the main product.
I love firefox but all in all none of the extra "features" 2.0 will have are anything that i would get excited about. Actually it looks more like their adding too much bloatware junk in instead. All of the extra features are ok, but not at the risk of it starting/running slower than the current firefox.
Yes, middle click to open a new tab on a link, and middle click to close. That's what switched me to Firefox, and the first thing I configured in Maxthon when I switched away from it. (:cries: memory leak!)
This is all bulls**t. It's not copying IE 7. It's copying Safari! All of that stuff has been in Safari for years! How could C|Net miss that? It's ALL Safari! The X's on the tabs. The sidebar with searchable history. All Safari! Wow... smooth move, C|Net. Morons.So basically now every browser is turning into Safari.
grinningfoolMar 24, 2006
All software version numbers are arbitrary. It's really a matter of someone (or a group of people) saying, "Let's assign a new version number." I use a dozen excellent, reliable products that are on revisions less than 1.0 I know of some crappy products that are on revision 11.0 or later.
ajc30Mar 24, 2006
Firefox 2 is really just a small UI revision that's being released to buy time for Gecko 1.9 development for Firefox 3. Gecko 1.9 is where all the new features will be. I agree Firefox 2 should be called something more like Firefox 1.6. And yes many of the new ui changes are currently available as extensions that's the way the extension ecosystem is supposed to work, popular/innovative/successful extensions get absorbed into the main product.
Closed AccountMar 24, 2006
I love firefox but all in all none of the extra "features" 2.0 will have are anything that i would get excited about. Actually it looks more like their adding too much bloatware junk in instead. All of the extra features are ok, but not at the risk of it starting/running slower than the current firefox.
sid0Mar 25, 2006
Yes, middle click to open a new tab on a link, and middle click to close. That's what switched me to Firefox, and the first thing I configured in Maxthon when I switched away from it. (:cries: memory leak!)
shadowworkMar 28, 2006
if they keep at it it might just get as good as opera.
jasocoApr 1, 2006
This is all bulls**t. It's not copying IE 7. It's copying Safari! All of that stuff has been in Safari for years! How could C|Net miss that? It's ALL Safari! The X's on the tabs. The sidebar with searchable history. All Safari! Wow... smooth move, C|Net. Morons.So basically now every browser is turning into Safari.