Browser Wars 2.0
Submitted by CrazyDave on Thu, 02/11/2006 - 14:20.
I'm loving the built in spell checker and redesigned tab bar.
Using the auto suggest on search as a calculator is nifty but annoyed me, so I've disabled that.
Making the RSS icon clickable, to subscribe to Bloglines was a great idea.
I've already had to use the session restore after my laptop froze. Works a treat.
Any one been using Firefox 2.0 or IE 7.0 and got any thoughts.
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I've been using Firefox 2.0
I've been using Firefox 2.0 and I like most of the changes - the spell checker's certainly useful, and the RSS button. I'm finding the session restore slightly annoying - it keeps trying to tell me that something terrible happened to the last session when I actually shut it down perfectly normally - but I daresay there's some way of turning that off, or at least a fix on the way.
Haven't been near IE7 yet, and not in any hurry to try it - it's biggest claim seems to be *shock* tabbed browsing, which doesn't exactly fill me with excitement after having that in Firefox for an age already. I've lost all faith in the Microsoft model for producing software like this anyway - I'd rather stick with a browser I know is kept up to date and well maintained.
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Firefox 2.0 here
Been using Firefox 2 at home since since beta 1 came out. I am definetly loving it. The spell check feature, along with the anti-phishing feature is pretty nifty. Only had one chance to try out the latter though.
I have IE7 installed at home, but I dont ever use it unless I come across a site that doesnt work correctly with Firefox. For example, when a site uses quicktime; I cant seem to get mine to work correctly in firefox.
At work, neither Firefox or IE7 are authorized yet, so im stuck using IE6. It really sucks, since using tabs has become almost second nature to me.
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Not tried Firefox 2.0 yet (not gonna bother with IE7). Will my current version of Firefox auto-update at some point or will it be a manual thing?
As far a QuickTime goes, I hate it so use QuickTime Alternative, which seems to work fine with Firefox for me
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I don't think it will
I don't think it will upgrade automatically - mine didn't, and came back with "no updates" when I tried the update thingy manually - I just had to go straight to Mozilla and download it. I guess they're going to keep maintaining 1.x alongside 2.0, for those that may (for whatever reason) prefer it.
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Eventual Auto-update
"Users will be offered the new version some time over the next few weeks. Those wishing to upgrade are therefore advised to download and install Firefox 2 manually."
IE 7 annoyed me with it's
IE 7 annoyed me with it's defauly layout, which took a while to work out how to use. I haven't tried FireFox 2 yet.
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I've just downloaded it and I have a feeling the spellcheck may get on my tits quite soon. It even wants me to say 'spell check' instead of spellcheck but I refused and told it different! HA!!
Tabbed browsing is possibly one of my favourite features.
Ooh, look at me using technical words! yay!
Yes, there is such a word as yay and now I've added it to the dictionary it can't tell me there isn't for I am now the GOD OF SPELLING!!!
Huzzah!! *adds huzzah as well*
i'm still using ff 1.5, but
i'm still using ff 1.5, but only because i havent bothered to dl the newest yet.
i finally talked my father-in-law into downloading ff for his laptop but he keeps running into a problem with it installing in spanish even if he selects 'english'. i havent taken a look at it yet (he's in Puerto Rico this week), but does anyone have any ideas?
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maybe
maybe the laptop knows hes in Puerto Rico
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