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Preview of the upcoming Firefox 2 browser

wiki.mozilla.org — Here's a preview of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 2 browser including the new features/components and the release roadmap. 2006/06/27 is the release date for Firefox 2

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  • Eliseo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Not many changes really. But cool, it's released on my birthday.
  • anorris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So, eliseo, the odds of having Firefox 2 for your birthday are slim to none.

    Haha, very rarely do companies hit dates that far out, however its good to see that they are still working hard on the browser!
  • energyblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wanted some screens ;(
    + Still digg
  • ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Hopefully this version won't be a crash-happy memory hog.

    It's still better than IE though.
  • xerves, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0Help save a dog's life.
    http://digg.com/links/Show_Digg_cares_and_help_save_a_Dog_and_family.
  • jinexile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox 2.0 is not going to be all the different looking from 1.5 or 1.0.x before it. There are some neat features to be added, but seriously Firefox 3.0 (Early 2007) is where it's at with the Cairo rendering engine, it will be able to finally do full page zooming like Opera and better anti-aliasing on zoomed images and more.
  • disord3r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Hopefully it won't pop up a link search anymore when I type apostrophes into comment boxes on random websites. Hopefully it will put the URL of the link I clicked on into the new browser window immediately, in the event the server doesn't respond. Hopefully it won't lose all my bookmarks twice per month. Hopefully it won't crash entirely when a single tab stops responding.
  • alterself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the wiki sure is suffering...
  • TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I love Firefox on my Windows machine, but it blows on Mac.
  • ndm007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0link is awfully slow.
  • CritterNYC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Google Cache:

    http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:AKqWPPKzc4AJ:wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox:2.0_Product_Planning:Draft_Plan+&hl=en&lr=&strip=1
  • LawrenceDudley, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I love Firefox on my Windows machine, but it blows on Mac."
    Try Camino, although I personally still prefer Safari.
  • gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0DIGGG EFFFFECCT
  • jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2yea! lets keep bloating a good browser until its heavy and slow like the original mozilla!! sweet :(
  • gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0is it just me or is the site SLOW.
  • RVDigital, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0WTF is with all the SPAM comments?
  • Webteeth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0I modded all but one of the spam comments to SPAM. I left one untouched for people to report, although I'm sure the people behind digg are working on a fix for the spam comments.
  • Webteeth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm really looking forward to the in-line spell checking. This is one of the advantages I really appreciate about my Mac, the system-wide spell checking. Especially for forum posts I think people are really going to love the feature.
  • TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anti-phishing a definite plus!
  • cusoman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Koolaid, seriously bro... I think they get the point.
  • milican, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Coralized

    http://wiki.mozilla.org.nyud.net:8090/Firefox:2.0_Product_Planning:Draft_Plan

    JOhn
  • apotropaic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Thank you greasemoneky for the spam comments...
    And people thought the digg greasemonkey was the greatest thing ever..
  • DudeGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I love Firefox on my Windows machine, but it blows on Mac."

    I know exactly what you mean, a lot of friends keep telling me this. I've used Safari a couple times, but I just can't be bothered to switch to it. Camino isn't anything special, it's a lot like the mac version of IE. I've tried out Opera too, and it's pretty great but I guess I'm too lazy to switch from Firefox.
  • niggerbebop, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Firefox sucks. Safari for life.
  • TimmyGUNZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Try Camino, although I personally still prefer Safari."

    Yeah, I tried Camino...it sucks too. I stick to Safari unless I run into the rare circumstance that a page won't load, then I'll use Firefox. I find Firefox crashes too much and runs very sluggish on Mac. No problems on Windows though.
  • SpookyET, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Opera blows on Mac too because QT emulates the Aqua. It does not call Cocoa. And it blows.
    Camino is Safari with the Gecko rendering engine with a little more functionality. On Mac, regardless that is is not integrated with KeyChain and Mail, Firefox also does not render buttons with the Aqual look. It has many more quirks. Somehow, the Camino developers made Gecko to render controls right.
  • etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Stupid Koolaidman.

    YAY FOR BON ECHO! What a great park... only an hour from my house. :)
  • thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what's an aviary 2.0 blocker?
  • youngcoder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0koolaidman im your biggest fan. :)
  • Lyph3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If it stops sucking down half a gig of ram when I have 5 tabs open, sign me up.
  • CptnObvious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Bon Echo" is a crappy name for a good browser. To shame to shame
  • SamLachance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3they need to fix 1.5 first....
  • MajorOutage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"what about bittorrent functionality?? Opera already has that. those other improvements are very vague, and not very exciting."

    I don't even like using the Mozilla download manager for extra-large files, since it keeps me from ending a browser session. Now you want to make it handle torrents internally? LOL! Get a real torrent client.
  • kokojie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1are they gonna fix the memory hog? with 5 tabs, firefox uses over 100MB memory, and sometimes 100% cpu
  • BT-Wang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how about putting back all of the features that were removed in 1.5 to simplify the interface?
  • FreyrVanir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bon Echo is just the code name cptnobvious. It will be called firefox 2.0 when released for general usage.

    Personally it shouldn't be a 2.0 release. Because there is no major back end changes. What they are dubing firefox 3.0 will have the major back end changes.

    They should just do odd=beta even=release like most open source projects. Unless they must have a bigger and bigger number ever release.
    Firefox 2.0=Firefox 1.8(mark the beta as 1.7)
    Firefox 3.0=Firefox 2.0(mark the beta as 1.9)
  • PowerCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1if 1.5 broke all my extensions..abit temporarily.. i wonder what 2.0 will break.
  • Elleo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"what's an aviary 2.0 blocker?"

    Aviary is a label for Firefox branches. A blocker is a bug serious enough to block a release.
  • Mongoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sweet! It won't come out til like, December, though. +digg
  • Vasto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Hmmm, thats strange Opera seems to already offer most of those features and than some.
  • Kiltak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Oh cool stuff :) I hope they keep the compatibility with extension this time

    Kiltak
    http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com
  • matid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sounds cool. I think new bookmarks and history are great improvement (AFAIR it's something like tags, see Flock for more), but the rest is quite the same. Anyway, we're waiting ;)
  • xtremesniper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's funny because Opera already has most of these features. Oh well.
  • nano, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0They should try to keep things secret, Apple style. Then Microsoft won't have a chance to rip them off before they release 2.0.
  • undauntedspirit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When the tabs become multi-threaded -- wake me up.... I use Firefox, I love Firefox (when it doesn't crash.) However I can't believe it's not threaded!!!
  • sergio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Unless it can render faster than Opera and take up less memory/CPU resources than Opera, what's the point? I'll wait for Firefox 3, then make my decision again.
  • sergio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Then Microsoft won't have a chance to rip them off before they release 2.0."

    Well, Microsoft can always rip off Opera 9 instead and get the same features, if not more, than Firefox 2.0.

    Just kidding.

    But not really.
  • Namco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All I want is for somebody to update EbayNegs extension.
  • Cinder6, on 10/12/2007, -2/+04 days before my birthday...nice present.
  • altidude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"if 1.5 broke all my extensions..abit temporarily.. i wonder what 2.0 will break."

    As usual for a FF upgrade, 2.0 will break some, or all, of your extensions, depending on the extensions you use. It's written in the Wiki that any extension related to history or bookmarks "almost certainly have to be rewritten".
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