Nov
14
2006

Firefox 2.0

(Add / View Comments) (0)Tuesday, November 14, 2006 - 10:36:39 pm
(Posted Under: Firefox Firefox)
For about 2 weeks now I've been running Firefox 2.0 on one of my machines.

There are some great new features. Spell checking r-o-c-k-s. Especially when it comes to blocking. Which as a result I've only been doing in version 2.0 exclusively.

They new look I'm quite a fan of too. Session restoring is also an awesome plus. Just yesterday I was working on some Javascript that had an infinate loop, and after freezing, I left Firefox for a while hoping it would give a dialog to abort the javascript (I'm sure in the past a version of Firefox did this), but no dice. So I eventually killed Firefox, re-opened and was reminded of this version had session restoring. Too cool - I would have just killed Firefox much earlier if I'd remembered that.

The only thing that is not sitting well with me is the new way tabs work. Close buttons on each tab look really nice (I've used the TabMix extension on some installations which didn't position the close buttons nicely) but having to move the mouse over each close to tab it when I go on a tab closing fest is annoying. Having the old close button on the tab bar (in addition to on the tabs) would rock my world.

Additionally the hiding tabs, rather than shrinking each tab bar as new tabs are opened to always fit them across the window is annoying too. The new widget to display a list of tabs is sweet, but I wish this was in addition to always displaying each tab on a window.

But overall, Firefox 2 is pretty sweet!

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