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Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Mariam — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:25:38 -0000

I am just trying out the new release of IE7, and find it interesting all the debate about this release versus the Firefox download. One of the most interesting aspects of the IE vs. Firefox battle is the development of the ecosystem of extensions or add-ons. It’s not just about bugs and features. Right now Firefox had a great advantage in this space but you can see Microsoft trying to catch up.
I noticed an interesting extension called Trailfire, set up as a recommended download for IE7. See link:

http://www.ieaddons.com/Sea...

I think the ecosystem for Firefox and IE will decide who wins this battle. What do you think?

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Alex Bogoslav — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:01:24 -0000

Just installed. Looks really nice!
Anybody knows the final release date?

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Peter Simoons — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:36:01 -0000

[...]Earlier this week I installed Firefox 2.0 RC2, basically initiated by a post that Robert Scoble made about it.[...]

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

bsamanth — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 18:53:37 -0000

tested the beta FF 2.0. its a memory hog.. downgrades my systems performance completely! any ideas to get over this?

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Daniel — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:32:09 -0000

I'd like very much this beta 2 !very best tan 1.the "bon echo" was horrible

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

arabianfox — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:18:29 -0000

anyone know of a link to a screenshot?
i think they have incorporated a lot of netscape 8's tweaks which was based on firefox.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Eric — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:05:50 -0000

BlueQute is a very nice skin, much better than the default one (though that's not that hard to do).

https://addons.mozilla.org/...

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Lloyd Dewolf — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:41:32 -0000

Find working in the text area (form fields) is the single most important feature in Firefox 2 for me. It really is the little things.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

sentinel316 — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:11:17 -0000

should check out avant browser, actually an overlay for IE6 & is faster. almost on par. W. Firefox.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Granville Barnett — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:49:48 -0000

Can't wait for FF 2.0 to come out FF 1.0 + and above has been so good :)

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Neville — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:48:06 -0000

I've recently converted to Firefox after years on Internet Explorer, and I'm very pleased with the browser so far. I haven't downloaded any addons yet, but I may do one day.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

bristowboy — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:34:13 -0000

Hey,Opera is faster.
Opera 9 doesn't have any banners anymore and it just rocks with the ease of use. Firefox with the 'fasterfox' extension is very good though.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Rijk — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:11:10 -0000

There might have been other browser before with close buttons on tabs, but Safari introduced them in its version 1.x. Opera added them in Opera 8 (with the option to revert to the real MDI buttons like it always had had). The Firefox team is the only one that did some serious usability research some time ago, and the change in Firefox 2 is the result of this research.

Saved sessions (autorestore after crash, or always if you want) have been with Opera since Opera 4 or 5. Omniweb on Mac also has extensive session features. Firefox 2 is now getting some - and IE7 doesn't have them, nor Safari, IIANM.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Roger Kondrat — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 07:47:47 -0000

@diego,

Yes IE7 and Safari had those style of tabs first, but no one is saying anything towards them. No one is saying who was first. Besides I think Opera was the first, and props to them for that.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

nosugrefneb — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:17:03 -0000

Still not as fast as OmniWeb...

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

heraclyde — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:51:16 -0000

The new default skin is just ugly.
Rss feeds dont't look as good as in IE7.
Visual rendering of pages is not as smooth as in IE7.

Anyway, i use FF2(RC2) because it is THE browser.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

jean — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:39:29 -0000

robert,
yest you blog was not in the top blog section. guess your new job is taking much of your time.

www.irin.co.uk

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Christopher Coulter — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:56:54 -0000

Faster, yes, but then Opera's been miles down the road eons ago, but then I can't live without some FF extensions, so mull between Opera and FF. But IE is a long long distant memory and use Avant for those times when IE proves a neccessary evil.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

pakcar — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 01:48:27 -0000

I'm agreed with you. It’s not only faster but useful too.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Thomas — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:29:29 -0000

@phrostypoison
Hm, then my imported profile must have killed that. For me it opened lots of new windows. Still the restore feature is missing which I use a lot.

@Matti
No, I haven't tried that, but I don't think it would help in this case. The dev build I used for Tab Mix Plus did work in the sense of it got activated, and some of the settings actually worked. But just some, e.g. the single window setting did not. So it seems to be more of a problem of how 2.0 opens windows which is different from how 1.5 did it.

@Will
If you just need the features that Opera provides I don't see a reason not to use it and switch to Firefox. I switched to Firefox because Opera was missing features (most prominently ad blocking) and does not even have the concept of extensions. Whatever you like about Opera featurewise, there is definetly an extension for Firefox providing the exact same feature in a gazillion different ways so that everybody gets what he wants. And speed is not an issue for me, I have not yet encountered a browser which felt slow. There may be objetcivly fast or slow browsers, but as long as I don't notice it I don't care.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Will — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:08:18 -0000

Firefox is just now catching up to where Opera has already been for quit a while - Ooh, a close box on the tab itself - how innovative. And quick? Gimme a break.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Brian Warren — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:55:49 -0000

RC1 had the close button on the tab, didn't it? Seems like i've been browsing that way (sans any spiffy extensions to do such behavior) for weeks now, eh? (this one looks prettier though)

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

SpecialK — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:58:04 -0000

You mean the close buttons copied from Safari, right? ctrl-w is so much more convenient, and I don't accidentally close the tab I want when I click too close to the X on the tab. I'm trying to figure out how any of this is real news or worth anybody's time.

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

Jimmy Gambier — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:22:33 -0000

It does go much faster, unfortunately, the tabs don't work! I'll wait for stable release as well

Re: Firefox 2 rocks (it’s way faster)

becs — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 16:57:36 -0000

Does everyone forget Opera? They were the instigators of tabbed browsing many halfmoons ago and have always had X close on each tab :)