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March 20, 2006
A forest of (new) Firefox pain
Those unfortunate individuals who - like us - have been afflicted with the upgrade gene, will no doubt be beside themselves with joy at the news that Mozilla has released the alpha of Firefox 2.0. This means that we will be able to download versions for Windows XP, Mac OS X and Linux that are full of bugs and other miseries, which will probably cost us untold hours of pain. What fun! If you must join us, don't say that you weren't warned.
Posted by cw at March 20, 2006 07:55 PM
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I sometimes wonder if the malignant upgrade gene is pretty tame cf the malignant RSS feed gene where ther are hundreds of infections to deal with each day.
Posted by: Ed Charles at March 20, 2006 09:47 PM
So whats new in 2.0, is it worth trying i dont mind bugs if there is a heaps of new stuff but im not going to try it if there's nothing much new
Posted by: Smith at March 21, 2006 10:50 AM
I'm hoping it's slimmed down and sped up. Since I switched to 1.5 I've found it slower to load (not quite in Acrobat's class but getting there) and stalling in multiple tab loads. And yes I have plenty of RAM. Opera multiple windows now burns it right off once up and running. I fear Firefox may have reached a bloating stage where the original kernel is now accumulating long way round extras. However it's a great project and I may be completely wrong, I hope so.
Posted by: tflip at March 22, 2006 03:46 PM
This is incorrect. 2.0a has NOT been released.
Posted by: AvvY at March 22, 2006 09:46 PM
The link makes it clear that these are Tinderbox builds. And here's a thread that indicates what's going on. Hilarious!
Posted by: cw at March 23, 2006 09:07 AM