I know that it was in Beta a while ago, and that Release Candidates have also been available for a few weeks, but the full version is now available for download.
The latest full release should replace 1.5.0.7 on the regular Firefox site tonight or tomorrow, and it’s already available elsewhere on the Mozilla site, and at various mirror sites, like this one.
It looks good so far. Nearly all my favorite extensions are already supported, and the inbuilt spell-checker has already prevented some errors typing this very post.
Just installed it. I was pleasantly surprised how smoothly the upgrade went. It was just a matter of downloading it, closing down Firefox, and running the install program. It’s kept all my bookmarks and extensions and settings and stuff as they were before.
As you mentioned, nearly all the best extensions are already supported (including my absolute favourite extension of all time, the Web Developer Toolbar). I have thirteen extensions, and only four of them were not immediately compatible with 2.0. A simple click of the ‘Find Updates’ button whittled this down to one. And that one incompatible extension is redundant with 2.0 anyway – it simply made a few improvements to tabbed browsing, and 2.0 itself has made those same improvements.
Then once I finished updating the extensions, Firefox restarted as usual, but it restored my tab session for me!
The spell checker will need a bit of training. I just installed the British English dictionary (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3366/) and it no longer marks ‘favourite’ as incorrect, but now it’s started marking ‘Firefox’ as incorrect. Oh well, at least it’s non-invasive. I don’t have a great need for a spell checker because I never ever make mistakes of any variety whatsoever, but I can see other people finding it useful.
I remember it being an element of ‘tab browser extensions’ or something, all of eighteen months ago. Bobotheoptimist - a problem is for those of us in the habit of clicking a tab to select it and middle-clicking to close it. Having the extra button on the tab is asking for confusion.
Sweet. Looks good so far. Now I’d just wish they’d be able to update themes without having to restart – or at the very least, automatically restarting and restoring all tab sessions when it does. Just about all of the skins I had installed were incompatible (including the one I was using) so I’m going to have to hunt for something nice.
Go to view, toolbars, customize, scroll down until you see the red x, drag it to where you want it, realize it won’t go there, drag it to the toolbar just above that, release.
Good luck.
I still haven’t figured out how to get it off the tabs GorillaMan, sorry.
Actually, Opera has had that design for its “close tab” button for quite some time now.
Anyway, as i said in the other thread, i generally use middle-click or mouse gestures to close tabs, so the placement of the button doesn’t worry me too much.
Help. I just upgraded to 2.0, and my tabbed browsing preferences are f’ed up. Previously I had it set so that any link that tried to open a new window actually opened in a new tab instead. Now they’re back to opening in new windows. I have Tabbrowser Preferences 1.3.0 installed (I had to upgrade when I upgraded to 2.0) and I can’t seem to find a preference setting for this in the Options menu. Does anyone have any ideas?
Hilariously, Mr. Legend finally installed Firefox on all three of our working computers early this afternoon, apparently about an hour before the new version appeared. Do you suppose we should upgrade before we get too accustomed to our “new” browser?
Can’t see much about v2.0 that I really need. I have all those features, and they’re already configured the way I like them. Last thing I want is to have to reconfigure settings that might be contradicted by an extension I currently have.
