I downloaded it yesterday and I was a little disappointed.

I really didn't like the way that you have to close the tabs. It's like an X in the upper right corner of each tab! Just like IE7.
I had some problems with the bookmarks, tabs and toolbars, and I know for sure that it wasn't the theme that I was using.
IE7 (when it first came out) didn't have as many errors as Firefox 2, which is why I was disappointed.

I reinstalled FF 1.5 after I played around with FF 2 for a while. I'm installing FF 2 next week, when it won't have as many problems.
I still prefer Firefox because the text is clear and the toolbar is more versatile.


What did you guys think of it?

I didn't know about it. Can you put up a screen print or something. From what you've said, I think I'll rather stick w/ the firefox I have now.

Hm, having the close box on the tab seems like a good improvement. I never understood why the close box wasn't on the tab in the first place.

I've had the little red x since 1.x thanks to an extension, so no real improvement there for me.

I don't really like having the close box on the tab. I liked having it in the corner because you could close several tabs without moving the mouse around..

I forgot to mention the spell checker! I think that's an awesome feature.

i was using firefox
but every once in a while the bookmarks disspear
so now i just use opera

IE 7 sucks, its too decorated, looks like the aim browser, and the text looks really funky its like different colors and much lighter.

i like firefox but imma try downloading the second one i hope i like it.

I haven't updated it yet. I've been using the Tab Mix Plus extension so I've always had the close tab feature; I've been able to close tabs from both the individual tab and the button in the corner.

If there are many bugs in it, I may just wait a while before installing it.

^ That's what I'm doing. That's what I always do with new stuff. I never buy or download anything brand new until most of the bugs are fixed.

thats a good idea, i guess i will just stick to firefox 1. or whatever its called.

I had problems with it when I downloaded it last night, but I reinstalled it this afternoon and I haven't found any problems yet.

Edit;

There's an interesting article on BBC that discusses the pros and cons of FF and IE.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6086798.stm

The mac version looks different than the windows version, but same features.

You could just get the Tab Mix Plus extention for Firefox 1.5.

same here! i downloaded it but then reinstalled the old version because i didn't like that x in the tab. it's so much easier in the corner.

You can use this extension if you want the close box somewhere else. I don't think it'll take away the close box on the tabs though. You could probably find another plug-in for that.
I've gotten used to it. It's a bit of a hassle, but I'm ok with it now.

I LOVE it its awesome. did you realize when you have ten tabs on at the same time and each of them has a song played it only plays the song of the persons tab that you are looking at. so you dont have a jumble of songs.

The only way that could be better if it played no songs, no matter what tab was in the front.

That always bugged me, especially after I got so used to the X being on the tabs in Safari.

Anyways, I have not downloaded the new firefox, No.
But it looks kind of weird.
Maybe I will check it out.

^ Maybe that's just the theme I'm using.


https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1765/

It stops the autoplay of songs and block media but not something from a flash thing. :D

^ Man, is there anything FireFox can't do?

I love this already. It's definitely an improvement. I haven't run into any bugs yet and I love the spell checker. I like the X on the tabs a lot better as well! Is it just me, or does it seem like the page alignment and scripts that used to go all out of order before are fixed? Everything looks just like it does on IE. At least, the sites I've tested so far.

Ha ha I thought I had the lastest version of Firefox. I guess not.

I used to run on IE, but Firefox seems to run a little faster (I guess because I get less adware and that stuff) and the tabs.

IE7 always crashes for me when I try using tabs.

really my xanga is freaked up so far. lol. its still the same. are there any add ons for that lol.

IE uses less ram than FF

Not by much anymore, actually.
I think they fixed the memory leak.

Right now, I've had FF2.0 open for about an hour, with 3 tabs. IE7 open for about 3 minutes with the same 3 tabs.
Firefox is using 60,404K and IE is using 58,729K.

Negative on that. The memory leak still exists.

In africa, we all use operha because she is our hero

^ Please, don't spam. -_-'
Mind explaining how you know that? Even if that is so, it seems like it's lessened a bit. The memory leak has never caused me problems. Even on FF 1.5. You'd only have to worry about it if your computer is ancient.

All you have to do is leave Firefox running for a few days to notice it, but a quick check of the 2.0 release notes, as well as a look at the Mozilla bug-tracking database, shows that it hasn't been fixed; if that's not enough, there are numerous bloggers who have noted the issue still exists.

It's not really a big issue if you don't leave Firefox opened for days at a time (all memory is reclaimed by the operating system once the application exits), but it is present, and it happens, regardless of the age of the computer (such is the nature of memory leaks).

Not trying to use it as reason to not use Firefox—it's a lot better than IE—but it's perplexing that the issue hasn't been fixed yet.

Chyea I guess Firefox never really handled the coding on Xanga. My layout doesn't work for Firefox which I don't mind too much, but it'd be nice if it did.

I don't think it was the amount of RAM it used.

Ok, I know you weren't trying to put down FF. I was just curious is all. Has anyone figured out why it leaks?

Memory leaks occur when a program allocates memory for an object or struct, and fails to deallocate it when the object or struct is no longer in use. So evidently, Firefox allocates memory but fails to release it when it's no longer in use.

Ah, ok, that's what I thought but I was unsure if that was the case here. That is kind of odd that it hasn't been resolved yet. Maybe there's something more complicated to it. Thanks for the information.