Firefox 2.0 final is out

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kevman

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Apr 20, 2001
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do the following extentions that I currently have work if I upgraded to 2.0 ?

ad-Block
Ad-Block FilterG-Set
TabMix

?
 

MrChad

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Aug 22, 2001
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Originally posted by: kevman
do the following extentions that I currently have work if I upgraded to 2.0 ?

ad-Block
Ad-Block FilterG-Set
TabMix

?

The first two work. Not sure about the last.
 

MrChad

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Aug 22, 2001
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Is this build the same as RC3? For 1.5, they ended up making RC3 the final release.
 

BD2003

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Oct 9, 1999
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I don't understand how you guys can use such a slow browser.

Extensions are cool and all, but I just can't deal with how slow it is and how much memory it uses. It's too bad they don't make a plugin that lets you use the opera engine to render the page in FF, like they do for IE.
 

Aharami

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Aug 31, 2001
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DLed it and I like the spell checker idea. but dont like the close tab button in each tab. It takes up space. Middle button close is good enough for me!
 

sswingle

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Mar 2, 2000
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Originally posted by: BD2003
I don't understand how you guys can use such a slow browser.

Extensions are cool and all, but I just can't deal with how slow it is and how much memory it uses. It's too bad they don't make a plugin that lets you use the opera engine to render the page in FF, like they do for IE.

SLOW!?!?!? In my experience, FF is MUCH faster. Pages load quicker, the program itself opens faster, etc.
 

Albatross

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Jul 17, 2001
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FF is so much faster than IE,i can get to a website even before i type the address.:p
 

The Pentium Guy

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Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Originally posted by: BigJ
Does it still use obscene amounts of memory?

if you'd rather cache it to your harddrive you can have it do so

Without it caching to my HDD, and with a few tabs open and browsing for the last 2 hours with it. I'm at 35K memory usage. Not too shabby

I would be at about 400MB by then...

They finally fixed the memory leak? That's the one reason I was an opera guy for a LONG time...
 

ViviTheMage

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Dec 12, 2002
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madgenius.com
Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Originally posted by: BigJ
Does it still use obscene amounts of memory?

if you'd rather cache it to your harddrive you can have it do so

Without it caching to my HDD, and with a few tabs open and browsing for the last 2 hours with it. I'm at 35K memory usage. Not too shabby

I would be at about 400MB by then...

They finally fixed the memory leak? That's the one reason I was an opera guy for a LONG time...

my laptop is hovering around 47,400...lets just say its not going down. I only have ATOT open too.

laptop specs :

T2300 dual core
120gig sata drive
2gig ddr2
 

thehstrybean

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Oct 25, 2004
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Originally posted by: MrChad
Originally posted by: kevman
do the following extentions that I currently have work if I upgraded to 2.0 ?

ad-Block
Ad-Block FilterG-Set
TabMix

?

The first two work. Not sure about the last.

Tab mix works, but you have to download it from the guy's site...go find it in extensions and he has a link...
 

Mayfriday0529

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Sep 15, 2003
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The spell check feature is cool. Now when I type something on here, Firefox highlights misspelled words. Right click it and get a suggestion. That my first new cool feature that I bumped into.
 

Finality

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Oct 9, 1999
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Looks better than previous versions though I still like IE7 a bit better, besides that its crashed twice for me so far in the space of 4 hours :(

Don't know if you can call it a crash but when I close the browser completely it wont launch a new Firefox I have to end task it.
 

Pshawn5

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Aug 8, 2001
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Did they fix the problem with flash player? I've tried the suggestions on the Mozilla knowledge base to fix the problem, but yet whenever i go to a flash player website such as youtube, Firefox crashes. it's becoming a annoying problem.
 

sswingle

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Mar 2, 2000
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Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Its RC3 not final.... look at properties the version is the same as rc3 which is 4.42.0.0

It is rumored that final might be the same build.
 

keeleysam

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Feb 8, 2005
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Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Its RC3 not final.... look at properties the version is the same as rc3 which is 4.42.0.0

RC3 was accepted as final.

Read before you speak.
 

40Hands

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Jun 29, 2004
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Originally posted by: Jnetty99
The spell check feature is cool. Now when I type something on here, Firefox highlights misspelled words. Right click it and get a suggestion. That my first new cool feature that I bumped into.

I never understood why this feature was not implemented earlier!
 

thescreensavers

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Aug 3, 2005
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Originally posted by: keeleysam
Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Its RC3 not final.... look at properties the version is the same as rc3 which is 4.42.0.0

RC3 was accepted as final.

Read before you speak.

well.... as the person above it is rumored