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phoenix_fire · Oct 24, 2006, 12:21 pm

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Firefox browser for web 2.0 age
BBC News Online

A new version of the Firefox browser for the web 2.0 age is to make its debut on 24 October.

Built in to the updated software is anti-phishing technology, to prevent fraud, as well as built-in spell checking and a search engine manager.

It is released less than a week after Microsoft unveiled Internet Explorer 7.

The Mozilla Corporation, which oversees the development of Firefox, says more than one million people helped refine the final release.

Firefox 2 is released at 1700 PST (0100 BST).

User testing

The first version of Firefox was released in November 2004 and since then has steadily been chipping away at the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.

Now it is believed to enjoy a 12-15% market share of the net browsing market globally. But, said Mike Schroepfer, vice-president of engineering at Mozilla, in some nations the share is far higher.

Mr Schroepfer said that there were about 12 big improvements in Firefox 2.0 along with thousands of minor tweaks and bug fixes.

Big changes include a phishing finder that alerts people when they stray on to a site that tries to trick them into handing over login details for a bank or other valuable service.

Another change was a spell checker that keeps an eye on every bit of text typed in almost any Firefox browser box be it in a web-based e-mail program or an add-on that lets people post blog updates directly.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Firefox browser for web 2.0 age

Know what I like best? The spell checker. Hopefully it will make forum reading more enjoyable.

ise · Oct 24, 2006, 12:51 pm

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Know what I like best? The spell checker. Hopefully it will make forum reading more enjoyable.

Boy, how right you are.

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ise Today, 12:07 am
It is particularly difficult to interpret sarcasm when the person writing it does not take the slightest care with his posting. It is an insult to everyone of us that he writes so carelessly. I read his post 2 and 3 times and still am not clear what he is attempting to say.

He is saying 'I'm too busy to even read back my own posting". The ARROGANCE is unbelievable. Even if he used basic punctuation then at least you could figure where one sentence started and finished. There is no excuses for this in this day and age of computer aids. Yet on occasion he can have perfect posting so he has not the excuse of not being able to write good english. It has made me wonder at times if there are different people posting as Shrike.

phoenix_fire, it is either a case of great minds think together or fools seldom differ. I'm for the great minds.

FireFox is great but not quite as good as Google, which I absolutely love.

**Pooeypants** · Oct 24, 2006, 01:24 pm

Just installed FF2, has a nice shiny touch to it. Not noticed anything new apart from that so far though.

tivodan1116 · Oct 24, 2006, 01:52 pm

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FireFox is great but not quite as good as Google, which I absolutely love.

I'm confused. Firefox is a browser. Google is a search engine. They are apples to oranges.

At any rate, love firefox.

JohnMK · Oct 24, 2006, 02:27 pm

I've been using a FireFox 2 beta for some time now and for the most part it's a solid piece of work. One thing I do not care for, however, is the new placement of the "close tab" red X. It used to be on the far right hand side of the browser. Now it's on the right side of the tab, so if I'm closing a bunch of old, irrelevant windows in one sequence, the new setup entails much more work.

**Pooeypants** · Oct 24, 2006, 03:20 pm

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I've been using a FireFox 2 beta for some time now and for the most part it's a solid piece of work. One thing I do not care for, however, is the new placement of the "close tab" red X. It used to be on the far right hand side of the browser. Now it's on the right side of the tab, so if I'm closing a bunch of old, irrelevant windows in one sequence, the new setup entails much more work.

That annoys me, everytime I go to close a tab I'm infact reaching for the quick tab switch thingy.

JohnMK · Oct 24, 2006, 03:53 pm

Or closing a tab that you didn't intend to close . . . thank Jove for the new tab history thing.

Acebass · Oct 24, 2006, 06:37 pm

Fysk · Oct 25, 2006, 05:58 am

Any idea how it is with memory leaking? I'd been using Firefox for a pretty long time until I finally got fed up with it eating nearly all of my RAM and switched to Opera. I prefer Firefox just for general use - unfortunately, one of the things I preferred about it to Opera was the red X in the top right of the window, rather than on each tab - but it was getting to the point where things were becoming ridiculous, and Opera was a very tidy alternative.

If you're trying to close a bunch of consecutive tabs quickly, the workaround is to find the first one and middle click it's tab so that the next one slides along into its place and lets you do the same again, but it doesn't work so well because the bars keep resizing.

Suburbanite · Oct 26, 2006, 04:45 am

there are some good extentions for tabbed browsing you should check out. I also love the Session Saver extension. It keeps all my tabs when i close mozilla, so i reopen to the same thing.

**Chris** · Oct 27, 2006, 12:49 am

how do you do the spell checker?

**Jason** · Oct 27, 2006, 01:12 am

It's automatically activated for any text you type in website forms. Works just like in a word processor.

Fonceai · Oct 27, 2006, 10:50 am

I luvx the Firefox now. Only a few more IE compatibility quirks to work out, and I'll be replacing it completely.

Fysk · Oct 28, 2006, 04:45 pm

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One thing I do not care for, however, is the new placement of the "close tab" red X. It used to be on the far right hand side of the browser. Now it's on the right side of the tab, so if I'm closing a bunch of old, irrelevant windows in one sequence, the new setup entails much more work.

It was annoying me as well, so I looked for a fix. In Firefox, open the page "about:config" (without the speech marks) and scroll down to browser.tabs.closeButtons. Right click it and modify its value from 1 to 3 and you should get the X back in the top right corner instead of on each tab. Also, changing it to 0 will show the close button on only the active tab, and 2 will get rid of them entirely.

I'm using it now. No problems so far, and it's good to have most of my extensions running again.

Lullaby Chainer · Oct 28, 2006, 06:23 pm

The tabs are great for porn. Instead of having a million different XXX FREE PORN, CUM INSIDE, ect. all lined up on the bottom of my computer, I can hide it in one simple window. Hooray.

tivodan1116 · Oct 28, 2006, 09:23 pm

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It was annoying me as well, so I looked for a fix. In Firefox, open the page "about:config" (without the speech marks) and scroll down to browser.tabs.closeButtons. Right click it and modify its value from 1 to 3 and you should get the X back in the top right corner instead of on each tab. Also, changing it to 0 will show the close button on only the active tab, and 2 will get rid of them entirely.

Holy crap - i want to reach through my computer and hug you. That was driving me nuts.

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The tabs are great for porn. Instead of having a million different XXX FREE PORN, CUM INSIDE, ect. all lined up on the bottom of my computer, I can hide it in one simple window. Hooray.

Amen to that (no pun intended).

**Jack** · Oct 28, 2006, 09:41 pm

Check this out...Microsoft(R) Firefox 2007 Professional.

Lullaby Chainer · Oct 28, 2006, 09:55 pm

Haha, I love the Warning.

And on the box..

"We've made it better

like seriously..."

kubedawg · Oct 29, 2006, 02:00 am

lmao! I wonder what it'd be once downloaded.

**Jason** · Oct 29, 2006, 03:05 pm

Perhaps a virus? They're all executable files. I wouldn't be so quick to run that.

Oct 24, 2006, 01:24 pm	#3 (permalink) (top)
Pooeypants Neo Moderator Location: England Posts: 5,549	Just installed FF2, has a nice shiny touch to it. Not noticed anything new apart from that so far though. War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is strength Harness the power of Ingsoc, then you can capture someone killed the year before

Oct 24, 2006, 06:37 pm	#8 (permalink) (top)
Acebass Necromancer Location: Louisville Ky Posts: 95	Liberal!..nuff said!

Oct 27, 2006, 12:49 am	#11 (permalink) (top)
Chris Gamma-ray burst Location: Nashville Posts: 6,280	how do you do the spell checker? Delusion- A persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence. (i.e. religion) Shared via G reader Blog

Oct 27, 2006, 01:12 am	#12 (permalink) (top)
Jason hyggeligt life Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,800	It's automatically activated for any text you type in website forms. Works just like in a word processor. Read the rules. Please show your appreciation by donating.

Oct 28, 2006, 06:23 pm	#15 (permalink) (top)
Lullaby Chainer Digital Witchcraft Posts: 3,020	The tabs are great for porn. Instead of having a million different XXX FREE PORN, CUM INSIDE, ect. all lined up on the bottom of my computer, I can hide it in one simple window. Hooray. *Powerful.. magical.. e-e-e-eevil..*

Oct 24, 2006, 02:27 pm	#5 (permalink) (top)
JohnMK Laissez-Faire Location: Seattle Posts: 539	I've been using a FireFox 2 beta for some time now and for the most part it's a solid piece of work. One thing I do not care for, however, is the new placement of the "close tab" red X. It used to be on the far right hand side of the browser. Now it's on the right side of the tab, so if I'm closing a bunch of old, irrelevant windows in one sequence, the new setup entails much more work.

Oct 24, 2006, 03:53 pm	#7 (permalink) (top)
JohnMK Laissez-Faire Location: Seattle Posts: 539	Or closing a tab that you didn't intend to close . . . thank Jove for the new tab history thing.

Oct 25, 2006, 05:58 am	#9 (permalink) (top)
Fysk Sedimentary Rock Location: England Posts: 15	Any idea how it is with memory leaking? I'd been using Firefox for a pretty long time until I finally got fed up with it eating nearly all of my RAM and switched to Opera. I prefer Firefox just for general use - unfortunately, one of the things I preferred about it to Opera was the red X in the top right of the window, rather than on each tab - but it was getting to the point where things were becoming ridiculous, and Opera was a very tidy alternative. If you're trying to close a bunch of consecutive tabs quickly, the workaround is to find the first one and middle click it's tab so that the next one slides along into its place and lets you do the same again, but it doesn't work so well because the bars keep resizing.

Oct 26, 2006, 04:45 am	#10 (permalink) (top)
Suburbanite BANNED Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,203	there are some good extentions for tabbed browsing you should check out. I also love the Session Saver extension. It keeps all my tabs when i close mozilla, so i reopen to the same thing.

Oct 27, 2006, 10:50 am	#13 (permalink) (top)
Fonceai BANNED Location: New York Posts: 4,217	I luvx the Firefox now. Only a few more IE compatibility quirks to work out, and I'll be replacing it completely.

Oct 28, 2006, 09:41 pm	#17 (permalink) (top)
Jack formerly Isherwood Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 12,999	Check this out...Microsoft(R) Firefox 2007 Professional. The Forum Rules Radical Atheist Heathen Queer Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be. (Ashleigh Brilliant)

Oct 28, 2006, 09:55 pm	#18 (permalink) (top)
Lullaby Chainer Digital Witchcraft Posts: 3,020	Haha, I love the Warning. And on the box.. "We've made it better like seriously..." *Powerful.. magical.. e-e-e-eevil..*

Oct 29, 2006, 02:00 am	#19 (permalink) (top)
kubedawg Magma Posts: 1,032	lmao! I wonder what it'd be once downloaded. "You can only see as far as you think." Economic Left/Right: -1.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.90 Addiction is only the failure of one's will power.

Oct 29, 2006, 03:05 pm	#20 (permalink) (top)
Jason hyggeligt life Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,800	Perhaps a virus? They're all executable files. I wouldn't be so quick to run that. Read the rules. Please show your appreciation by donating.