Today is Firefox 2.0 day!

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:11 am

For those who can't wait till it hits their repos:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/f ... eases/2.0/

And some media coverage:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6078016.stm
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fi ... erview.php
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/hea ... 82263.html

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:15 am

Today is also Fedora Core 6 day!

I read Phoronix's review, and it looks pretty damn sweet. Of course I'm gonna have to throw the ugly-ass BlueCurve theme in the trash, but once that's done, boy is this gonna be awesome.

Post by **Patrick** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:18 am

Tsuroerusu wrote:Today is also Fedora Core 6 day!

Go start your own damn thread then!!

Just kidding. Yes, and Ubuntu is coming out any day as well. Lots of new releases. Life is good.

Tsuroerusu · Post by **Tsuroerusu** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 9:24 am

Patrick wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote:Today is also Fedora Core 6 day!
Lots of new releases.

Oh yeah, openSUSE 10.1 Beta1 is out on Thursday, should be interesting to see the extensive translation work a friend of mine has been doing, along with the new KDE updater, plus lots of new cool stuff.

gorkon · Post by **gorkon** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 12:16 pm

They don't even have this damn thing posted on the frontpage yet and the fraking ftp server is overloaded.

Thanks everyone!

greggh · Post by **greggh** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:53 pm

Patrick wrote:Yes, and Ubuntu is coming out any day as well. Lots of new releases. Life is good.

Yup. Day after tommorow, the 26th is the sheduled release date for 6.10. I'm looking forward to that one.

Vogateer · Post by **Vogateer** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:06 pm

Man, the new Firefox feels noticeably faster. The new spell checking feature is a very welcome addition. I've been missing that ever since I started using Firefox and Gnome, since Konqueror has had that feature for a long time.

I'll probably wait a while to upgrade to Edgy, though AIGLX will probably send out its Siren call and lure me to Edgy so that I might destabilize my box for the sweet, sugary taste of compiz eye candy.

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:47 am

The reviews are coming in and are mostly positive:
http://tinyurl.com/yjr3om - CNet
http://tinyurl.com/yaaeq3 - EWeek

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:51 am

Vogateer wrote:Man, the new Firefox feels noticeably faster. The new spell checking feature is a very welcome addition. I've been missing that ever since I started using Firefox and Gnome, since Konqueror has had that feature for a long time.

Why exaclty do you need spell checking in a browser? Will it automatically send CNN.com an E-mail telling them there's a misspelling on their page?

Post by **Patrick** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:56 am

Gomer_X wrote:Why exaclty do you need spell checking in a browser? Will it automatically send CNN.com an E-mail telling them there's a misspelling on their page?

It's handy when posting on blogs or bulletin boards that don't have spell checking built into them. It merely underlines words red that it thinks are spelled incorrectly. You can disable it if you don't want it.

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:15 am

Patrick wrote:It's handy when posting on blogs or bulletin boards that don't have spell checking built into them. It merely underlines words red that it thinks are spelled incorrectly. You can disable it if you don't want it.

Ah... OK

Why not just cut and paste the text into Microsoft Word(tm) and use its spell checking? Works for me!

Vogateer · Post by **Vogateer** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:47 am

Gomer_X wrote:
Vogateer wrote:Man, the new Firefox feels noticeably faster. The new spell checking feature is a very welcome addition. I've been missing that ever since I started using Firefox and Gnome, since Konqueror has had that feature for a long time.
Why exaclty do you need spell checking in a browser? Will it automatically send CNN.com an E-mail telling them there's a misspelling on their page?

Were you trying to be humorous when you misspelled exactly?

It's just a matter of laziness. Most people are lazy, and I have a friend who's a horrible speller, and will not check his spelling before he posts to our forum. It's not a big deal, but it just might help him, and if you use something like drupal or joomla for your website, then it's also a nice safety net.

It saves me an extra step while I'm working, and I always appreciate that.

Jza · Post by **Jza** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:52 pm

I tried FF 2.0 and well I am sorry to say that there are some querky stuff at least on my box. When I try to load a URL that I typed before, it wont be able to load on the address bar.

My bookmark where not transfered from 1.5 either so I guess my whole profile was not imported either.

Finally I have some issues with the tabs, the new tabs are not going to the right tab number. It just stick to the first one.

This are show stoppers for me as I struggle to search for a FF 1.5 installer.

Post by **dann** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:42 pm

Gomer_X wrote:[Why not just cut and paste the text into Microsoft Word(tm) and use its spell checking? Works for me!

Why don't you just go back to running IE then, ya scurvy bastard? Copy into Word, wtf?

I find it really handy, though; especially when replying to forum posts, doing web mail or writing to my blog. The only gripe I have noticed with it so far is that it does not seem to work with Google Notepad.

To me it's something that did not seem like it would impress me, but now that I have started using it, it's a must have!

Vogateer · Post by **Vogateer** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:46 pm

Jza wrote:I tried FF 2.0 and well I am sorry to say that there are some querky stuff at least on my box. When I try to load a URL that I typed before, it wont be able to load on the address bar.

My bookmark where not transfered from 1.5 either so I guess my whole profile was not imported either.

Finally I have some issues with the tabs, the new tabs are not going to the right tab number. It just stick to the first one.

This are show stoppers for me as I struggle to search for a FF 1.5 installer.

That's a shame. It's working for me on my ubuntu box and a couple of OS X machines, too. I do think that backing up the profile, sans cache, should be a part of every major Firefox release if it isn't already. I haven't noticed the installer backing it up, so I'm assuming it doesn't. I read a few comments on the CNET review that said a few others lost their bookmarks, too.

I'm sure they'll have some bugs to work out, but it's been faster for me, and stable, as well.

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Today is Firefox 2.0 day!

Today is Firefox 2.0 day!

Damn...ya could have waited....