Is out for down load. get it HERE (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)
for those dont use give it a try ;)
drumin
10-25-2006, 09:32 AM
I use it and I like it. :) :2cents:
Cranky
10-25-2006, 05:18 PM
not for me fellas....tried the last one and didnt like it....still got the fekin thing opening up on me at times even after removing it??:rolleyes:
cranky
must say I'm very happy with the new version indeed.....
even has a inline spell checker now that works with VB software and the open recently closed tabs is cool....
seem a bit faster as well to me and a must have for dailup users like myself :rolleyes:
If you expect every software update to bring an arsenal of shock-and-awe technologies, prepare yourself now for disappointment with version 2.0 of Firefox (as well as with IE7 and Opera 9). But if you realize what artisans and engineers have known for millennia—that improving and refining what you have beats feature bloat—this is your browser. Not that you won't find new features, with session restore and anti-phishing capability (both of which were in the betas) at the top of the list
In the months I've spent with the betas, I’ve come to appreciate session restore a lot. When you restart the browser after it crashes (or you've killed it), it asks if you want the pages you had running to re-open automatically. You can choose not to, though—for example, if you suspect something malicious caused the crash. You can also quickly provide Mozilla with feedback about crashes by clicking on an icon (a red circle with a white slash through it) that appears in the address bar.
The built-in anti-phishing filter, which is on by default (unlike the one in IE7) prowls pages you visit for suspicious characteristics that indicate the site is is a forgery meant to dupe you into providing personal information. This feature, updated every half hour, checks against a locally stored list of addresses for known phishing sites. You can also enable (from the Security tab in the Options menu) a setting that lets a service provider check every site you visit. Google does the checking for now, but Mozilla plans to add other choices in future. Enabling the option noticeably impedes Firefox's normally perky performance, but provides added security.
Because Mozilla developers—and Opera’s, for that matter—have no vested interest in a particular search platform, Firefox can afford to offer you a better method for organizing whichever you choose. Pop open the new Search Engine Manager, and you'll see a list of all the search engines you’ve installed. You can add new ones and delete or move existing entries higher or lower. You also now have a selection (under the Tools menu) that lets you better managing all your Add-ons, extensions, and themes. It lets you disable or uninstall individual selections with a single click and provides access to options you might not have turned on in an extension or add-on.
You’ll find streamlined RSS and Atom feed-handling and controls, though I like those in IE7 better. On the other hand, the quality of the built-in capability is somewhat moot considering the vast number of RSS extensions available that let you do any and everything you can imagine related to RSS. I'm also pleased to see inline spell-checking built in (sadly, with IE7 this requires an add-on). That may be a minor addition, but we can all do with fewer misspellings in our Web-mail correspondence, blogs, and forms.
Look hard and you'll also note quite a few usability enhancements. For instance, each active tab now gets a close x of its very own, rather than the single one to the far right of all the tabs in version 1.5. You can also re-open tabs you might have closed accidentally by choosing the Recently closed tabs selection under the History menu.
Changes you probably won't notice include built-in support for JavaScript 1.7, a new and faster Windows installer, additional search plug-in support (for both the OpenSearch and Sherlock formats), and support for storing structured data on your installation of the browser. Basically, this last helps developers build faster sites because some choices that might have meant going to the Web for a page refresh can now be done satisfied with data residing in your browser.
If you are interested in more on the evolution of Firefox, please visit links to our past coverage. In these stories you’ll be able to gain further insight into what made Firefox a departure from and answer to what was lacking in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6. Firefox 2.0, while by no means a revolutionary advance over version 1.5, nonetheless adds another solid layer on the Firefox foundation.
The grassroots effort that invigorates the Firefox movement and community is inspiring and the browser's statistics impressive. A few examples: there are on average between 350,000 and 400,000 downloads of Firefox a day. During the week following Release Candidate 2’s availability, there were almost a million downloads of it. Beginning day one of its availability in finalized form you could get it in 40 languages. That should give you some indication of the level of excitement surrounding the application, even with the technorati press (me among them) writing ad nauseum about the dearth of new features.
I find the interfaces of Opera 9 followed by IE7 more aesthetically pleasing and elegant than those of Firefox (at least with their default settings), but all three do an acceptable job in terms of their core functionality: allowing users to seek out and open Web pages efficiently and—thus far—pretty securely. Opera 9, though, seems to produce more poorly rendered pages than the others now that in its native default it identifies itself properly, rather than as IE6. But for expandability and suitability for achieving the advancement of an open, ever-expanding Internet and World Wide Web, Firefox continues to edge out all other browsers. It therefore maintains its hold on our Editors’ Choice, although I award it with a bit less exuberance than for version 1.5.
reubeni
11-01-2006, 12:53 AM
Is out for down load. get it HERE (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/)
for those dont use give it a try ;)
Thanx for the link bro been using 1.5 for awhile now I will post what my experience is like with 2.0 after I have used it for some time:cool: