Just wondering if anyone has tried either the beta or the RC1 of Firefox 2? Any thoughts about it?
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Jump to PostMore a bug fixing exercise than a full point release, in terms of added functionlity and features, in my never humble opinion. I have been calling it Firefox 1.6 around here.
Not that it sucks, just that it sucks they haven't done more to justify the 2.0 release.
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Jump to PostI don't generally like remakes...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083943/ is the original.
Jump to PostFirefox 2: The Clint Eastwood of browser clients.
Opens up all sorts of possible marketing opportunites :)
"Do you feel lucky Microsoft? Well, do you?"
Jump to PostI am using IE7 and really like it -- I see no reason now to use FireFox. The only reason I used it before was because of the tabs, and now Microsoft as borrowed that idea. I don't see any advantage of running FireFox over IE7.
Jump to PostIn fairness, tabbed browsing was hardly a Firefox innovation in the first place. I think the first to adopt a true Multiple Document Interface approach was NetCaptor which wrapped around the IE rendering engine and was first released back in 1999. Opera also got there before Firefox if my memory …
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