This guy at ARS-technica have tried Firefox Beta 2 and evidently liked it:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060831-7631.html

( a link to download Ffx b2 is provided in the article )

Anyone tried Firefox Beta 2?

very good. new theme sucks.

Screencap, perhaps ?

Anyways, what's so different with Ffx 1.5.0.6 ?

for users who are currently using the windows classic theme, firefox's new theme just plain sucks. it looks horrible.

on a side note, i've also heard that the new beta uses up to 50% more memory than 1.5

where do you got that from?

Thanks for the screenshots kwanbis. I don't like both of the themes, but my favorite iFox is also available for FF2

The only thing I like about the Beta is the bigger search box.

The earlier beta and the alphas before it were prone to crashing on my end; I don't know why.

The new beta is just as stable as 1.5.0.x. I don't like the look of the tab bar, but I prefer the 2.0 RSS handler.

IIRC there's a plugin for 1.5.x that provide a way to resize the search box. But I don't use it, so I don't know what it's called.

If you want to do it without installing extensions, create userChrome.css in your profile\chrome directory.



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Oops, I thought you disliked the big search box. You actually like it. Oh well.

someone on some other forums told me that. i doubt that it's true but it could be. but then again, it will be a long time before something will make me switch to Firefox.

I haven't done any extensive testing, and I don't trust the task manager, but the numbers in task manager for "Memory" and "VM Size" do look higher in beta 2 compared to 1.5.0.6.

I'm happy with beta 2, though, because I prefer to have "tab close" buttons on individual tabs.

that function has been there for ages via the Tab_X extension.

FF2 has much, much less memory leaks. I know cause i have the mem leak detector running, and before b1, i had leaks like 50 times a day. Now i have 1/2 a day at most.

What is it that you are using?

I know. When I was a fan of Galeon, I loved that feature, but when I moved to Firefox I mostly forgot about it.

The Firefox 2.0 alphas brought it back, and I fell in love with it again. When I moved back to Firefox 1.5.0.x, I installed that extension.

Now I don't have to. Yay!

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Another thing I like about b2: in Korea, there are a lot of RSS links (<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="rss" blahblahblah />) that lead to a "permission denied" page. (Don't ask me why.)

Firefox 1.5 used to allow subscribing to such bad feeds. Firefox 2.0 beta 2 now shows you the error page instead of letting you subscribe to it.

Wow, there are more fewer memory leaks?! I count me in the count!

It's called Resize Search Box. It's one of my must-haves.

Seems to be aptly named, I'll give it a shot.

Opera. it's the only web browser that suits me. i've also customized it a lot allowing it to use google suggest and IE . but when i want to go to some website where Opera isn't supported(Google Labs's new stuff), i use K-Meleon because i hate big resource usage.

I used to use Opera... but then have to cry out loud when I found out no one else supported its mailbox.

Leter I decided to use Firefox. A lot cleaner for me. All-in-one wannabees nowadays make me irk (brrr... I recall Norton Systemworks...)

Now I got 200MB worth of mailbox locked in the Opera mailbox... ... can anyone tell me how to import it into Thunderbird?

i don't know if Opera Webmail supports POP3 so if it doesn't, then you might not be in luck. i like Opera better because it has a cleaner interface while Firefox has it's stupid XUL.

For me its just the oposite, FF interface is way cleaner. And i have been contantly trying Opera since 2.11.

Same here, same here

Any decent e-mail program should be able to export mailboxes in the *nix mbox format. You can just copy mbox files into Thunderbird's profile directory.

Firefox 2.0b2 chugging along fine here. I'm lazy to take memory data, but Firefox 2 has only crashed once on me so far (third-party plugin as usual), and even then it restored my crashed session perfectly.

For those who like using optimised builds, try out the builds from this guy: http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html

Can you tell us what kinds of optimization he built into Ffx b2?

My copy was updated to 2.0 RC1 (shows up as 2.0 in the credits) through the semi-automatic upgrade feature. A popup came up asking if I wanted to upgrade, then it downloaded some stuff and asked me if I wanted to restart the browser.

The tab bar looks a lot better now.

I'll stick with 1.5 until 2.0 goes official, though.

Too many extensions I luuuurve do not support 2.0... yet.

2.0 RC1 is ready. The memory leaks fixed from 1.x to 2.0 its outstanding.

But it's still "RC" ... I'd rather wait until RC2 at least.

For me, RC still equals beta. Only in a nicer name

no, its not. RC means that if there are no major issues, it becomes final.

Yeah, I know. That's what "RC" supposed to mean.

However in my experience, RC1's are still beta's. Or more properly, gold-beta's.

That said, I have to reiterate that RC2's are usually okay with me

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....st&p=435868

RC2 is now available for download. Automatic updates work nicely as well.

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

Alright!

*scurries to download*

I use opera because if you close it, via crash or normal close, starting it again if you set it to will bring back all your tabs as if it was before.

there is an extension for FF.

actually, there is a native setting for this in firefox 2. its on the very top of the main preferences tab. i think it may be about time for you so consider switching.

as for me, i've been contemplating switching to iceweasel. when icewesel is up to 2.0, i plan to.

long live *completely* free software.

meh, it's more that firefox lags on this machine restoring it after leaving it for a night.

have you tried adding /Prefetch:1 to the shortcut target line, if your on xp? that helped load time for me, when i used windows.

What's that supposed to do?