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Firefox 2.0 - First Thoughts

October 23, 2006 · 5 Comments

Firefox 2.0 is here. I'm running 1.5.0.7 and 2.0 side-by-side right now (although only one can actually be running at once) to see how I feel before I commit to upgrading. So far - an hour in - Firefox 2.0 feels very good. I like the subtle UI changes, the better organized preferences dialog and, most of all, the spell-checking on textarea form fields (although it doesn't know the word 'textarea'!). I was disappointed that the Fusebox 5 reload extension is "not compatible" (strangely the Fusebox 4 reload extension is compatible - go figure!).

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5 responses so far ↓

1 Stephen Moretti // Oct 24, 2006 at 1:57 AM

The versioning in extensions is down to the install.rdf in the xpi file, so you can probably just grab a copy of the xpi, edit the install.rdf and reinstall. As it is you can just reinstall it from Stephen Judd's page, because he's already done this to the extension, dated Oct 4th.

But FF2.... been using it for some time now. Its definitely lighter than FF1.5. I actually find it quite difficult going back to 1.5 now that I've got used to all the small UI changes. Very pleased with it.
2 Nick Tong // Oct 24, 2006 at 2:38 AM

What about the del.icio.us plugin... I use that one all the time!
3 Ray Buechler // Oct 24, 2006 at 5:34 AM

Sean,

The Nightly Tester Firefox extension will let you force non-compatible extensions to work with FF 2.0. I've been using it since the FF 1.5 beta and never had problem. You can get it here: http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/nightly
4 Steve Judd // Oct 24, 2006 at 6:35 AM

Sean,

The Fusebox 5 reload extension "should" be compatible with FF2...at least it was detected as fine when I upgraded to FF2. I changed the compatibility info in the rdf files. Note, I'm a CF guy and the extension was just something I wanted to try. I'll upload a fresh copy...let me know if it still doesn't install for you. There is a newer format for the rdf file I could try, but as you noticed, the earlier FB4 extension is fine, and I made the same changes for the FB5 extension.

Steve
5 Sean Corfield // Oct 24, 2006 at 7:28 AM

Thanx Stephen - I just reinstalled the reloader plugin. Yours and the Web Developer and Google Notebook extensions are the only ones I use regularly.

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