Firefox 2 Released!

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:31 am

Well, the new look for the tab bar looks suspiciously like the tab bar from Opera. FlashBlock hasn't been updated yet to work with Firefox 2, and Disable Target Downloads (or whatever that extension is called that keeps downloads from opening blank windows) hasn't been updated yet either.

Other than that, I like what I see so far.

Darksaviour69 · Post by **Darksaviour69** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:40 am

Well, the new look for the tab bar looks suspiciously like the tab bar from Opera

i was going to say the same thing (well not the suspiciously bit)

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:35 am

Someone on another board I frequent posted a link to the Alt+S fix.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:36 am

curt_grymala wrote:Well, the new look for the tab bar looks suspiciously like the tab bar from Opera. FlashBlock hasn't been updated yet to work with Firefox 2, and Disable Target Downloads (or whatever that extension is called that keeps downloads from opening blank windows) hasn't been updated yet either.

I don't see the resemblance to Opera's tabs at all. Opera's tabs are large, and bright blue. About the only resemblance is that they have a gradient.

Now IE7's tabs do look suspiciously like Opera's.

FlashBlock seems to work here though. Try pressing the "Find Updates" button in the add-on manager.

Hmm... Did anyone else notice that the word "Firefox" is missing from Firefox's dictionary?

curt_grymala · Post by **curt_grymala** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:47 am

I guess it was just the x in the right corner of the tab that made me think of Opera's tabs.

Anyway, I got the red x to go away on my tabs (for those that don't know what to set it to, you want that setting to be 3 - 0 puts an x on only the active tab, 1 is the default setting, 2 seems to make the x go away completely, and 3 sets it so the x is in the far right corner of the tab bar, like it always was in the past).

Anyone know how to get rid of the "Tab List"? I haven't found that setting in about:config.

BTW - @BA - I don't know if you noticed this yet or not, but you can hide the Go button through about:config as well.

For some reason, the version of Flashblock I had installed (1.3.3, I think) wouldn't find any updates, but when I searched the Add-on site, I found a new version that's compatible. Thanks for the heads up, BA.

Darksaviour69 · Post by **Darksaviour69** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:56 am

BlackAura wrote: Hmm... Did anyone else notice that the word "Firefox" is missing from Firefox's dictionary?

yea, + its does not pick up on a lot of spelling mistakes that word and google do, but still i'm very happy with it (very bad speller)

SadisticSaviorX · Post by **SadisticSaviorX** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:57 am

BlueCrab wrote:
SadisticSaviorX wrote:Im currently using RC3 and there it says there is no updates.
Also, when I use the installer...nothing seems to change.. either way Firefox2 is nice!
I think someone on slashdot pointed out last night (when the "early release" happened) that RC3 and the final Firefox 2 had the exact same MD5 sum, which would mean that they were exactly the same.

I figured that was the case but i still dint know why they would show a build number in the titlebar still.

Juan · Post by **Juan** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:33 am

In case of having more than one dictionary (like me), try Dictionary Switcher.

ace · Post by **ace** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:53 pm

Hmm, I like the look of it, and the built in spell check is awesome!

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:13 pm

curt_grymala wrote:I guess it was just the x in the right corner of the tab that made me think of Opera's tabs.

Yeah, that might be it. I turned them off.

Anyone know how to get rid of the "Tab List"? I haven't found that setting in about:config.

I don't think you can.

BTW - @BA - I don't know if you noticed this yet or not, but you can hide the Go button through about:config as well.

Yep.

Edit: The Alt+S key combination still works, sort of. They just changed the keyboard shortcuts so they don't conflict with the menus (Alt+S - History) or the standard shortcuts (Ctrl+S - Save). It's now Alt+Shift+S

The settings for ui.key.contentaccess seem to be:

1 - Shift
2 - Ctrl
4 - Alt
8 - Meta (Windows key)

Unfortunately, all of those conflict with something. You can add them together for key combinations - the default value of 5 means Alt + Shift.

Edit 2: The Windows key setting doesn't actually work on Windows.

SlammedNiss · Post by **SlammedNiss** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:05 pm

My "Mail" icon has disappeared from my toolbar and I can't seem to find it to put it back.

Post by **|darc|** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:12 pm

BlackAura wrote: Edit: The Alt+S key combination still works, sort of. They just changed the keyboard shortcuts so they don't conflict with the menus (Alt+S - History) or the standard shortcuts (Ctrl+S - Save). It's now Alt+Shift+S

The settings for ui.key.contentaccess seem to be:

1 - Shift
2 - Ctrl
4 - Alt
8 - Meta (Windows key)

Unfortunately, all of those conflict with something. You can add them together for key combinations - the default value of 5 means Alt + Shift.

Thanks! I got it going now.

Sir Savant · Post by **Sir Savant** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:18 pm

SlammedNiss wrote:My "Mail" icon has disappeared from my toolbar and I can't seem to find it to put it back.

same. It has done so since rc1.

SlammedNiss · Post by **SlammedNiss** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 9:37 pm

Sir Savant wrote:
SlammedNiss wrote:My "Mail" icon has disappeared from my toolbar and I can't seem to find it to put it back.
same. It has done so since rc1.

I ended up going back to the older version. I like the changes, but I dont like the fact they took my mail icon away.

butters · Post by **butters** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:31 pm

Dude you can drag any icon up to it. Just drag your start menu shortcut up there.

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:08 pm

BlackAura wrote:
A release candidate is just that - a version that the developers thing is good enough to be a final release version. If no bugs are found, the release candidate is promoted to the release version.

The release version of Firefox 2 is identical to the RC3 version.

So the only difference is the name then? I'm just wondering since my RC3 firefox hasn't auto updated to firefox 2 yet and i'm not sure if I should wait for it to do so or do it manually.

Post by **|darc|** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:20 pm

Lunchbox wrote:
BlackAura wrote:
A release candidate is just that - a version that the developers thing is good enough to be a final release version. If no bugs are found, the release candidate is promoted to the release version.

The release version of Firefox 2 is identical to the RC3 version.
So the only difference is the name then? I'm just wondering since my RC3 firefox hasn't auto updated to firefox 2 yet and i'm not sure if I should wait for it to do so or do it manually.

Yes. Since RC3 was a release candidate, and it was successful, it became the release.

SlammedNiss · Post by **SlammedNiss** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 11:55 pm

butters wrote:Dude you can drag any icon up to it. Just drag your start menu shortcut up there.

No kidding? I'll have to give that a try.

EDIT:

Doesn't seem to work for me. It keeps asking me if

"Do You Want This Document To Be Your New Home Page?"

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 4:56 am

They removed it. I'm not sure why though.

You can re-add it using an extension like this one.

butters · Post by **butters** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:23 am

SlammedNiss wrote:
butters wrote:Dude you can drag any icon up to it. Just drag your start menu shortcut up there.
No kidding? I'll have to give that a try.

EDIT:

Doesn't seem to work for me. It keeps asking me if

"Do You Want This Document To Be Your New Home Page?"

Oops, that only works with the bookmarks toolbar.