Comments on: Mozilla Officially Releases Firefox 2 Beta 2

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 21:24:18 +0000

At least in FF 2.0b2 (which is now my default browser) they added the ‘List all tabs’ feature which was already on Minefield. I like that over those goofy ‘tab overflow’ arrows they introduced with FF 2.0

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 20:43:56 +0000

Yeah, Minefield has that whole new bookmarking system so I am sure it will be a little while before the kinks get worked out. Which is why that feature was pulled from FF2.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 03:02:37 +0000

From my uses of FF 2.0a2, 2.0b1 and now 2.0b2, it seems fairly stable. On the other hand Minefield (FF 3.0) kept crashing every time I tried to import my bookmarks. Still using 1.5.0.6 as my primary browser. I’m tempted to make Beta 2 my primary but too lazy to do so right now.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:33:47 +0000

If only you knew how many times I had to read that in order to picture it.

By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 17:59:41 +0000

OldManDeath wrote:

So in your opinion, you believe this to be a good stable version?

Yes, it’s stable as an Olympic cyclist on a bike with stabilizers riding on a giant flat mound of tarmac with magical magnetic repulsion things to stop him falling over.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:26:55 +0000

Ryan wrote:

I think they created a special RC2 for Macs and so they just carried the RC1 build forward to RC2 and then to the release. But yes, the build date is the same as RC1 which is good…that means there wasn’t any serious problems that had to be fixed before release.

That makes sense, I keep forgetting about the RC’s for the beta’s. I misread the prior comment as the date was the same as for Beta 1.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 02:20:37 +0000

I think they created a special RC2 for Macs and so they just carried the RC1 build forward to RC2 and then to the release. But yes, the build date is the same as RC1 which is good…that means there wasn’t any serious problems that had to be fixed before release.

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:55:27 +0000

I noticed the same thing with the build date…I took a look at the FTP server to compare. Besides being dated August 31st, the Beta2 file (Win32, En-US) is 5.6 MB instead of 5.4 MB as is the Beta1.

By: natmaster

natmaster — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 00:50:30 +0000

From the date in the about page, it appears that this is the same as the RC1? But then…there was also an RC2. Is that date just not updated after the first RC?

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 02:06:10 +0000

So far so good. Do like I don’t lose all my current open tabs when I use the ‘restart’ option after adding an extension or theme. Also like the drop down listing all the open tabs, prefer that over the ‘tab overflow’ arrows.

By: OldManDeath

OldManDeath — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:55:40 +0000

Inferno_str1ke wrote:

Excellent. I have been using Beta 2 RC1 as my primary browser for a few weeks now, and am going to fully un-install Firefox 1.5 now that Beta 2 has hit an official release. I’ve not had a single error or incompatibility with this build so far, and it’s nice to see Firefox going from strength to strength.

So in your opinion, you believe this to be a good stable version?

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By: Inferno_str1ke

Inferno_str1ke — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:19:09 +0000

Excellent. I have been using Beta 2 RC1 as my primary browser for a few weeks now, and am going to fully un-install Firefox 1.5 now that Beta 2 has hit an official release. I’ve not had a single error or incompatibility with this build so far, and it’s nice to see Firefox going from strength to strength.