“The final version of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 was slated for release tomorrow, but appears to already be available for download via releases.mozilla.org,” MacNN reports. “Firefox 2.0 features built-in anti-phishing controls, built-in RSS and XML feed-viewing capabilities, and a new inline spell checker. Further Firefox 2.0 features include the ability to create bookmarks with “Live Titles” for websites that offer “microsummaries,” a new Add-ons manager that simplifies management of extensions as well as themes, and support for Javascript 1.7.”
Download link for Firefox 2.0 for Mac OS X here.
Let’s check it out, shall we.
Hmm… Firefox.
I prefer….
OmniWeb & Safari.
But, I suppose I can give FF another shot.
what about firefox 2.1?
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Firefox has always beaten the crap out of Safari (speed-wise) on both my old Cube and my 1.5 GHz. Powerbook – can’t figure out why but the speed difference is huge!
Can I download IE7 for my Mac yet?
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Hopefully, this new version will address the issue of memory leakage I’ve experienced with *both* Firefox 1.5 and Safari 2.
Just reading my news sites, opening lots of tabs and slowly working through them can result in a serious memory footprint. (I reached 1.9 GB a few days ago.) I have to close and restart the browser at least once every few days to keep things from crawling.
what… us stuck in “Office PC Only” land get the snub on the early release! At least theres a tasty new copy for my Mac when I get home!
Are you guys sure this is the 2.0 final?
I downloaded Firefox 2.0 RC3 at the end of last week, it was built on 10-10-2006.
I used this link to download the 2.0 final, and the build date in my about box is the same.
Is this correct or is there a plist file or something I need to delete? (Never had to delete one before for prior updates).
I trashed and emptied trash for the Firefox RC3 application prior to this install, as always.
Please advise and give an update. Thanks!
Rather use Camino.
Hey! What’s an HP ad doing on MDN?!
Firefox 2.0 features built-in anti-phishing controls… what does that means? Anyone of you understand what it is. Please tell me. Thanks
MDN Magic Word “hell”
Budman,
Probably means RC3 was chosen as the final version. Same thing happens with all software, including OS X.
Remember 4K78 and the version without the debug code anyone!!
Those were the days.
Anti-phishing means that the browser will check the url against known phising sites and alert the user. A phishing site is a web page made to look authentic, say like a PayPal or Ebay login page, but it’s url is originating somewhere in Russia. You login thinking your at Ebay or PayPal and you just gave hackers the credentials to your account. It’s really just a way to help users pay attention.
MDN: you need to add a way to allow us to update our comments. My previous post I forgot to add
Russia or some other nefarious place.
I didn’t mean to imply it only comes from Russia.
If you’re going to use Firefox, you’ll probably want to clean up the hideous Windblows looking menu and buttons with “Firefoxy”:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16118
Also, Firefox is not OS X aware in the true sense so various services, contextuals, etc. won’t work. The plugs are probably its strong suit.
Tommy boy-Sure, download IE –fool.
I prefer to use Firefox because you can tweak the pipelining in about:config to make it blazingly faster than Safari. Of course, I hate how it looks, so I use the GrApple (UNO) theme to making it look OS X native: http://takebacktheweb.org/
If you’re stuck in a Windows world at work, download the FF 2.0 Win32 version here: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/
It’s a whole lot better than IE7 (and 6,5,4,3,2,1).
Firefox isn’t early. It’s already Tuesday in Australia for instance. Mozilla might be based in the US, but not all of the developers are.
Stinky, it doesnt use the old themes, they all have to be updated.
It’s marginally faster on my iMac G5, especially with Toolbar Folders.
OBJECT-X
THANK YOU!
It’s perfect for any age mac users!
MDN Magic Word =”such”
Looks great. It’s got a much nicer look to the interface. The RSS feed behavior can be configured so that when you click on a feed, it brings up the live bookmark saving dialog – perfect. Safari needs live bookmarks like Firefox’s, then it would be perfect.
Omniweb is a joke… the Ralph Nader of browsers.
I like to use Arronax’s GrApple “safari” Theme. For Mac OSX only. His theme was updated today. Works with Firefox 2.0. Seems to be on top of things. Give it a try!
Netscape 8 please.