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Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early

Posted by kdawson on Mon Oct 23, 2006 04:50 PM
from the let's-slashdot-mozilla dept.
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A number of readers alerted us to the [link removed] day-early [accidental] posting of Firefox version 2.0. At this writing the top page at mozilla.com still doesn't mention its availability. One reader pointed us to [link removed] a mirror and another recommended a comprehensive review of Firefox 2.0, with many screenshots, over at mozillalinks.org. Update by RM: - links above removed at request of Mozilla release people. They asked us to link to this note instead. They're only asking us to wait until Tuesday Afternoon (U.S. Pacific Time) for the official 2.0 download, which isn't long. (Patience is a virtue, etc.)
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  • Nice! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @04:52PM (#16552584)
    Linking to a 5.4Mb file directly on Slashdot. Nice!

    • I smell a conspiracy (Score:5, Funny)

      by ZakuSage (874456) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:54PM (#16552634)
      from the let's-slashdot-mozilla dept.

    • OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @06:17PM (#16553570)
      Firefox 2 has not yet been officially released. Please be patient. We still plan on launching Tuesday, October 24th in the afternoon pacific time. Linking to anything other than getfirefox.com [getfirefox.com] or mozilla.com [mozilla.com] hurts us, our volunteer mirror network, and our ability to effectively serve up and guarantee availability of Firefox. Thank you! -- cbeard@mozilla.org

      • Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Insightful)

        by Kelson (129150) * on Monday October 23 2006, @08:29PM (#16554802) Homepage Journal
        And yet, somehow, it seems like with every Firefox release, someone decides to link Slashdot straight to an FTP site before they've finished pushing everything out. Firefox 2 beta 2 [slashdot.org], Firefox 2 beta 1 [slashdot.org]... I'm sure you can find more, but I don't feel like searching further.

        Given this track record, what would it take for Slashdot to do a little checking the next time someone submits a "Firefox X released!" story?

          • Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Insightful)

            by AJWM (19027) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:57PM (#16554052) Homepage
            a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.

            A filesize has lots of reasons to be measured in power-of-two quantities. If you don't think so, let us know which drives use powers-of-ten sector sizes and which filesystems read/write powers-of-ten block sizes.

            (The SI guys can take a hike. The computer industry has been using kilo, mega, etc for powers-of-two since they got away from decimal computers almost 50 years ago now. It was the disk drive marketing guys who started pre-empting that so that they could advertise their eg 95.37 MB drives as 100 MB.)

            • Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Funny)

              by Lord Ender (156273) on Monday October 23 2006, @08:32PM (#16554838) Homepage
              (The SI guys can take a hike. The computer industry has been using kilo, mega, etc for powers-of-two since they got away from decimal computers almost 50 years ago now. It was the disk drive marketing guys who started pre-empting that so that they could advertise their eg 95.37 MB drives as 100 MB.)

              It's people like you who cause entire space missions to fail. "Mega" has meant a power of TEN for much longer than "the computer industry." Besides, computers are used outside the computer industry these days.

              Get with the times an learn the difference between Mi M Ki K Gi G B b etc..

              Any decent engineer would loathe ambiguity. You think "mega" should mean different things depending on context? What are you, a Perl programmer?!? DEMONS BE GONE!!

  • Damnit! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @04:52PM (#16552594)
    And I just finished emerging 1.5...

  • So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (209368) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:53PM (#16552608)
    The Firefox team are assured never to suffer 0-day exploits by making -1-day releases. Clever, clever...

  • Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:4, Funny)

    by PrintError (708568) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:54PM (#16552618) Journal
    It beat itself to the internet!

  • Language (Score:4, Funny)

    by ostehaps (929761) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:55PM (#16552638)
    Sweet move to link to the en-GB version. That's the flavour I like!

  • I'll upgrade if (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (209368) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:58PM (#16552700)
    1) it quits crashing all the time with the mplayer plugin when playing videos

    2) it finally has a sensible cookie blocking interface, à-la Mozilla, and not that atrocious settings tab that I have to scroll through to find the site I just blocked cookies from that I need to re-enable.

    Otherwise the current 1.x version works well enough for me.

  • Funny Related Links (Score:5, Funny)

    by Amazing Quantum Man (458715) on Monday October 23 2006, @04:59PM (#16552720) Homepage
    Related Links: "Compare prices on Mozilla"

  • Which release group gets credit? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 23 2006, @04:59PM (#16552724)
    And where is the /crack directory? I guess they put a serial in the nfo.

  • Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:5, Interesting)

    by yurik (160101) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:03PM (#16552768)
    There is now Firefox 2 support enabled on all Wiki*edia sites. To use, navigate to http://en.wikipedia.org/ [wikipedia.org] (or any other language/project), click the search engine selector button in the upper right corner, and click "add wikipedia". The added bonus is that auto-suggest is also working - as you type you search, it will provide a list of page titles that begin with the typed letters.

    One note - the timeout is set to 500ms, which is not too long (especially when the entire slashdot visits wiki). To make it longer, open firefox_install_dir\components\nsSearchSuggestions .js, and edit the "_suggestionTimeout: 500" line. Something like 2000 works fine for me.

    --Yurik / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik [wikipedia.org]

  • Ill wait (Score:4, Funny)

    by Blackbrain (94923) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:04PM (#16552778)
    Pfffttt, no thanks. Let me know when IceWeasel is ready.

  • pls wait 24 hours (Score:5, Insightful)

    by jhermans (108300) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:06PM (#16552800) Homepage
    For crying out loud ! Can't we just leave those Mozilla folks alone for a day, so that they can prepare the release. They have to post 38 different executables, and do a very last check to see if they actually work.

  • New version (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Dan East (318230) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:21PM (#16552988) Homepage
    The latest version is quite nice. The integrated spell checker is worth it alone (I had been using an extension, but having it integrated is so much nicer).

    I thought I might could do away with Tab Mix Plus now, however it was quickly apparent that the extension is still a must. As a developer I'm too used to switching through multiple documents by history, not by some arbitrary linear order. So with Tab Mix Plus I can easily CTRL-TAB back and forth between a couple specific tabs, even if there are a dozen other tabs open. So I'm waiting for the author(s) to update it because it is no longer compatible.

    Happily, the other extensions I use all had upgrades for 2.0. That was my biggest gripe about FireFox in the past. Especially a previous upgrade that I think was security-related. The version went from like 1.5.0.2 to 1.5.0.3 and suddenly 90% of my extensions weren't compatible. That was unacceptable, especially with such a seemingly small change in version number.

    Dan East

    • Re:New version (Score:5, Interesting)

      by gad_zuki! (70830) on Monday October 23 2006, @07:00PM (#16554074)
      >The latest version is quite nice.

      As someone who is used to 20+ tabs at one time, I disagree. The new tab limitation is a pretty lousy UI change. Its like Mozilla and MS are trying to outcrap each other in the UI department. At 1024x768 I get 10 tabs. Now I have to scroll tabs (!) or use the tab selector (ugly hack) to see the rest. I know there's a config item I can change to restore 1.5 like behavoir but I shouldnt have to do this in a browser that advertises the advantages of tabs. The old system worked fine: tabs would dynamically shrink as you add more. If a user wants to have nice big tabs they know not to open more than 8 or so. Those who dont need to be reminded that the green slashdot favicon is actually Slashdot.org could open 20-30 tabs. I paid for this RAM and I like using it. Now everyone gets big tabs no matter what.

      Also, why are extensions called "add-ons" now?

  • Its not a day early (Score:5, Informative)

    by Tama00 (967104) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:21PM (#16552992)
    Its tuesday here in Austalia, for all you who dont know, the main developer for Firefox lives in New Zealand!

    SO it is ontime, not early.. you people of slashdot are just slow.

  • Snappy and uses less memory (Score:5, Informative)

    by Sarusa (104047) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:35PM (#16553166)
    One thing not really mentioned in the preview is that they definitely seem to have the memory under control finally. I've had up to 30 tabs open (only a dozen now) and have been using it all day and it's only using 75MB of memory. FF1.5 would be hovering around 250MB after the same use.

    It also feels much snappier in general, if only because it's not sprawling all over the paging file (I don't know what other speed tweaks it has).

    All my extensions except undoclosetab updated automatically (and that's built in now) so that was probably the smoothest upgrade I've ever had. Though I use the LittleFox theme and I was on version 1.5, which looked very strange in FF2.0. But after a manual 'look for updates' for themese it found LittleFox 1.7 which looks great.

    So far I'm very pleased with it.

  • Firefox 3.0 (Score:4, Informative)

    by RobertF (892444) on Monday October 23 2006, @05:41PM (#16553216) Homepage
    Meh. As a web developer, I'm more anxious for the release of Firefox 3.0. Firefox 2 uses the same rendering engine as 1.5, they just wanted to compete with IE 7. Bah! I want a new Gecko!

  • How to get rid of the hideous tab bar gradients: (Score:5, Informative)

    by karmaflux (148909) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:08PM (#16553478) Homepage
    0. Make a working directory. I called mine "fff." Make two directories in it: 1 and 2. Now you'll have ~/fff/1 and ~/fff/2.
    1. Copy the /chrome/classic.jar file from the OLD firefox version to your ~/fff/1 directory. For example, on Slackware it's /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.7/chrome/classic.jar
    2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory.
    3. Now copy the /chrome/classic.jar file from the NEW firefox install to ~/fff/2.
    4. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/browser.css into ~/fff/2/skin/classic/global/browser.css. Just overwrite the file, because it sucks.
    5. From ~/fff/2, you can just do zip -f classic.jar. -f is freshen; zip will report that it updated the one file.
    6. Copy ~/fff/2/classic.jar back to where you found it in the NEW firefox install. I had mine in /usr/lib/firefox2/chrome/.
    7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!

  • PLEASE stop linking to unreleased builds (Score:5, Informative)

    by BZ (40346) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:16PM (#16553554) Homepage
    See http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2006/10/the_a ntirelease.html [mozillazine.org] for the Mozilla build team's take on articles like this one.

  • IE7 Makes Firefox Irrelevant (Score:5, Funny)

    by thelifter (1017186) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:27PM (#16553694)
    This is a shameless attempt on the part of Mozilla to stave off the crushing mindshare defeat that Microsoft is about to hand out with Internet Explorer 7. With improved support for stuff and things, IE7 promposes to make Firefox 2 obsolete by nightfall on it's release date.

    IE7 will ship with the patented Cure For Cancer toolbar and embedded network optimization that makes tastefully photographed adult literature download 50% percent faster than with the dinosaur browser.

    And that's not all. MS didn't forget about you developers. IE7's javascript debugger provides error messages that are 83% more ambiguous than with Firefox.

    It's a well known fact that FireFox's only real market growth is in the UK where people hate fire, but like foxes. Therefore, Firefox can only achieve 50% marketshare in the UK maximum. Elsewhere in the world where fire and foxes are both despised, the Firefox market is limited to people who like dinosaurs which is just 10 year old boys named Kyle.

    Just kidding.

    Firefox Rules.

    • md5sums (Score:5, Informative)

      by jonasj (538692) on Monday October 23 2006, @06:17PM (#16553576)
      dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0.tar.gz
      dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz

      don't think there's been that many changes :-)

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