Firefox 2.0 Posted a Day Early 564
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.)
Nice! (Score:5, Funny)
I smell a conspiracy (Score:5, Funny)
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BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
http://bittorrent.mozilla.org/ [mozilla.org]
(2.0 is not there yet, but use that link when it gets updated)
Unofficial torrents (Website ads are NSFW):
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891929/Firefox_2_0_
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/891930/Firefox_2_0_
(The first link is US version, second is GB version)
(posted AC to avoid karma-whoring)
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You know, it's not karma "whoring" when you post a useful post. Don't try to put the moderating system up-side-down, because of some ill-understood posting moral considerations.
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Informative)
Re:BitTorrent links (Score:5, Funny)
Seems not even the spell checker will help you.
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So the British version uses the perverted and kinky sites?
Payback! (Score:3, Funny)
OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Informative)
Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:5, Insightful)
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?
HA HA HA (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:OFFICIAL STATEMENT (Score:4, Insightful)
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I also wanted to note that people don't know enough about me and my life outside the Mozilla foundation.
My name is Farouk Bakoh, a Solicitor/Notary public, and very active in the legal practice in Nigeria. I am also an in-law to the late President, General Sanni Abacha. Now General Abacha is dead, and Mohammed the first son is facing a lot of persecution due to his involvement in anti pro democracy activities during the rule of his late father. Also there are alleged
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:4, Funny)
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A MEGA-anything is a million. It has nothing to do with RAM manufacture, a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Insightful)
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.)
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I don't know what, if any, drives use power of ten sector sizes, but I guarantee you that no modern drive uses powers of 2 for its sector size. They often use it for sector payload size, but the actual sector consists of many more bits than just the payload.
For example, a DVD sector has a payload of 2048 but a total length of 2064 which includes 4 byte ID, a 2 byte IES, 6 bytes of CPR MAI and a 4 byte EDC. But, if you take it ev
Re:Actually it's 45.6 Mb (Score:5, Funny)
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!!
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kilo = 1000. universally.
how stupid would it be to say ten = 10, except when we are talking about industry X, then ten = 12? terribly stupid. kilo = 1000, kibi = 1024. if you hate the word kibi, then just write 1024. end of story. no context mystery. no ambiguity.
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Sorry, the SI guys were in before.
A MEGA-anything is a million. It has nothing to do with RAM manufacture, a filesize has no reason to be measured in power-of-two quantities.
It's because, as everyone knows, data is slightly compressible. If you define the height of a single bit as 1 arbitary unit, when you stack 1024 of them on top of each other, the weight of all those bits squashes them down so that the stack is only 1000 units high. As soon as you pull one out of the stack to look at it, it sprin
Damnit! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Damnit! (Score:4, Funny)
So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So that's how they do it (Score:5, Funny)
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It does not have your history... but it could if it tried a brute-force attack. Neat trick, btw :-D.
The javascript is at http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/attackapi/build /lib/AttackAPI/HistoryDumper.js [gnucitizen.org] and it works by making an 'a' tag, then checking if it was visited or not. So it is able to see if a link has been visited before, but it can't dump your history in a normal fashion. I bet it probably isn't exactly a feature... but hardly something to be paranoid about.
I'll wait thanks (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I'll wait thanks (Score:4, Informative)
http://ilias.ca/blog/2005/11/looking-at-ftp-sites
http://ilias.ca/blog/2006/04/looking-at-ftp-sites
What is amazing is that Slashdot seems to do this with every release. What kind of editors we have here?
Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Firefox 2.0 is soooooooo fast... (Score:5, Funny)
Language (Score:4, Funny)
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http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0.e xe [mozilla.org]
Linux Version:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-2.0.tar.gz [mozilla.org]
Everything else you should be able to find here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefo x/releases/2.0/ [mozilla.org]
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Can't find a Debian version... odd!
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I'll upgrade if (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
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Funny Related Links (Score:5, Funny)
Which release group gets credit? (Score:5, Funny)
Ubuntu Edgy (Score:2)
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Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:5, Interesting)
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\nsSearchSuggestion
--Yurik / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik [wikipedia.org]
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My favorite feature ever.
Also -- let's not forget Portable Firefox has the RC3 version out (which, from what I can tell, is Firefox 2.0 in everything but name) here [portableapps.com]
My impressions of 2.0? It's got some nice tweaks, it feels faster, it uses about 25 meg less Ram on my windows machine and about 30 meg
Re:Wikipedia Support for Firefox 2 Added (Score:4, Informative)
Difference between 2.0 RC3 and 2.0 final? (Score:2)
md5sums (Score:5, Informative)
dec219811d989aeed2b8c7e338cc0b03 firefox-2.0rc3.tar.gz
don't think there's been that many changes
Ill wait (Score:4, Funny)
/. needs to update (Score:2)
All in all, seems like a fairly good release. A bit slower here and there though, but pages appear even faster than before. Well that could very well be a UI illusion, but whatever, it seems to work.
pls wait 24 hours (Score:5, Insightful)
word to this (Score:5, Insightful)
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ [mozilla.com]
and
http://www.getfirefox.com/ [getfirefox.com]
and
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ [mozilla.com]
all only say Firefox 1.5. Come f-ing on, slashdot, after having jumped the gun several times on freebsd [slashdot.org]. do they really need emails from everyone that produces software saying "only announce things when they're really announced" before checking a single website or two to see if something's officially out?
English US Version (Score:2)
Do something about extensions (Score:2)
When we tout the advantages of Open Source, the availability of extensions on time, is not something we should fail on. After all, there have been a number of betas and release candidates released before this major one. Tests could be done on thos
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Well, I have been running 2.0 since rc2, and I have all of the following extensions working: Adblock, Adblock Filterset.G updater, Forecastfox, Linky, and McAfee SiteAdvisor. While I realize this is a far cry from all the extensions, these are all the ones I use regularly. I'm quite sure the list of working extensions is far bigger than what I've listed.
might wanna check your extensions first (Score:2)
Other than that, it's definitely faster (except for one area - switching between already-loaded tabs is MUUUUCH faster in IE7. And no, that's nowhere near enough to get me to use IE7).
And is themeability now gone,
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Awesome, thanks; I definitely didn't notice that! I prefer the old method of separate links for Tools>Extensions and Tools>Themes, but oh well, as long as it's still there.
For the sake of non-Windows users (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:For the sake of non-Windows users (Score:5, Funny)
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A buncha extensions don't work (Score:2)
New version (Score:5, Interesting)
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)
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)
SO it is ontime, not early.. you people of slashdot are just slow.
Re:Its not a day early (Score:5, Funny)
Only in the northern hemisphere.
Software Update (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Software Update (Score:5, Informative)
Snappy and uses less memory (Score:5, Informative)
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)
From the press release (Score:3)
Some people have voiced their concern that this release is not worth the 2.0 moniker. I however don't understand the point. If numbers are to be believed, this version is as incremental as 1.5 was for 1.0
This is an exceptionally bad argument. In version-land, 1.0-->1.5 != 1.5-->2.0. This is where things like "version 1.13" come from. It's simply not a decimal representation. So, unless there's some compelling change, whether it be to functionality and UI or to the underlying code base, there's no justification for bumping the major version number. (Chessmaster 9000 is, of course, a special case.) This is in no way to denigrate the efforts of the development team.
How to get rid of the hideous tab bar gradients: (Score:5, Informative)
1. Copy the
2. Unzip the classic.jar file. Copy ~/fff/1/skin/classic/global/browser.css to your ~/fff directory.
3. Now copy the
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
7. Restart firefox, and let GTK render your widgets without any ugly gradients!
PLEASE stop linking to unreleased builds (Score:5, Informative)
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So clearly the FF team couldn't have just magically propagated the builds to all t
IE7 Makes Firefox Irrelevant (Score:5, Funny)
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.
This old exploit still crashes v2.0. (Score:4, Interesting)
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300 Memes Crushed in Sri Lana Tsunami! (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:As pointed out in MY story submission... (Score:5, Funny)
To a different colour?
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Bugger, chap. Not everybody uses windows.
Re:Quick Question; (Score:4, Informative)
Options -> main -> startup -> when firefox starts -> show my windows and tabs from last time.
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Re:New feature worth having (resume session) (Score:4, Informative)
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While we're at it, set browser.tabs.closeButton to 3 to revert the tab close buttons to 1.5's behavior.
Not sure about the search button, but for that you can download an extension that behaves in a way you prefer.
Re:Feeling Lucky Google Search Result change!! No! (Score:3, Informative)
For anyone curious:
Go to about:config (type it into the location bar)
Select: Keyword.URL
Change the value to this: http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I'm+Feeling+Luc
All is well.