Firefox 2 Released

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Maugrim_The_Reaper
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

The release notes offer the improvements. What's wrong is that IE7 doesn't offer the same list...;).
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Funny thing for me, with the exception of the 'New Age' look and feel, IE7 reminds me of a 'New' release of a Firefox 1.
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Post by Cameri »

I suggest you get Firebug, it's really neat! It tells you Javascript errors, has a Javascript debugger (haven't tried it yet), and a very good DOM Inspector. It also tells you how many errors are on the page you are viewing in the status bar.
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I'm on FireFox 2.0 now. Seems identical apart from theme change...
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Post by pickle »

Just (oh cool - there's the spell checker) updated to 2.0 here at work. I had a few things not convert over well:

Extensions:
Fasterfox - I'll feel that
Tab Mix Plus
WeatherBug

Themes:
iFox Smooth
Phox IIXi

Here's hoping Fasterfox gets updated soon
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The spell checker is a friggin awesome tool. I got almost all of my stuff working with other variations of tools. The only thing outstanding are the themes.
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Yes, I am really enjoying the inline spell checker and retrieve recently closed tabs feature.

Well done Firefox.
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and scrollable tab-bar! :D
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That's just really neat. Wow. Thanks for pointing it out.
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comment at /. wrote:I jsut upgarded adn for smoe resaon firrefox uednerlines everyhting in red! WROST FAETURE EVAR!
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The bad news is that it is allegedly (in italian) still vulnlerable to this: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19488/info
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Mordred wrote: The bad news is that it is allegedly (in italian) still vulnlerable to this: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19488/info
Doesn't crash for me on this one: http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/ffoxdie.html (which is linked as an exploit to the vulnerability you mentioned)

PS: Gecko/2006101023 Firefox/2.0 WinXP SP2
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crashes mine

Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
WinXP SP2
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Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 2003 Server crashes as well. It seems my browser at home is unaffected because it was upgraded from beta autoupgrade channel.
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Damn mine crashed, thank god I can restore the browser session :D
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Oh yeah, crashed my browser hard and fast. +1 on thanking God for browser session support. Yippee, came right back to where I was.
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