Firefox 2 released today

[Stu]

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Any idea how to get googlebar lite and wikipedia on the same toolbar line? Right now it won't let me move them around at all.

[soxboy7]

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http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php

Thats an article all about the changes as well as how to modify certain things. I would recommend checking it out.

I didn't know that the browser will dowload pages it thinks you might view. I turned that off since I hate to use up so much bandwidth on pages I'll never go to.

[Holic]

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http://www.lifehacker.com/software/f...aks-209941.php

Thats an article all about the changes as well as how to modify certain things. I would recommend checking it out.

I didn't know that the browswer will dowload pages it thinks you might view. I turned that off since I hate to use up so much bandwidth on pages I'll never go to.

Great article, thanks for posting it.

[Goffs]

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http://www.lifehacker.com/software/f...aks-209941.php

Thats an article all about the changes as well as how to modify certain things. I would recommend checking it out.

I didn't know that the browswer will dowload pages it thinks you might view. I turned that off since I hate to use up so much bandwidth on pages I'll never go to.

oh wow thanks!!

[aukevin]

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One new feature of the Firefox 2 that I don't like is the search under the right-click menu. Before, if you highlighted some text and right-clicked, you could search for that text in Google. Now it searches according to whatever your search bar thingy at the top is on. I wish it would just stay as always searching google on the right-click menu. I'll have to look around for an extension to do that for me.

[pk500]

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I'm souring a bit on FF 2.0. Memory leaks were my biggest beef with FF 1.0 and 1.5, and if anything, they're even WORSE with FF 2.0.

FF 2.0 locked up on me this morning, and a quick look at Windows Task Manager showed the pig was using nearly 190 K of memory. That's a joke, especially since I use no extensions that are well-known memory hogs.

FF 1.5 topped out for me around 150-160 K, and that was still too much.

Mozilla needs to make a fix for the memory leaks Priority No. 1 for FF 2.1 or FF 3.0.

Take care,
PK

[fsquid]

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I have 2.0 installed and using alt + s does not post for me. That sucks. I always use alt + s to make a post.

Anyone know a fix to this one. Damn, that is like an involuntary action for me.

[Victor99]

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Anyone having issues with 2.0 locking up and crashing? It does it for me about once a session. Getting annoying.

[pk500]

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Anyone having issues with 2.0 locking up and crashing? It does it for me about once a session. Getting annoying.

Yes. Sometimes it's due to big memory leaks, but sometimes the memory usage is low, and the thing still locks.

I'm becoming less impressed with FF 2.0 by the day. I'm considering returning to FF 1.5, which was more stable, had fewer memory leaks and through extensions had many of the same functions and features built into FF 2.0.

Take care,
PK

[Skerik]

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2.0's working fine for me so far. No lockups or crashes. 1.5 was very slow on my work PC, but so far 2.0 is running a lot more smoothly. Who knows.

As for the memory leaks, the FF folks have stated that they won't be fixed until the 3.0 release.

[mudtiger]

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Running dual boot xp/ubuntu(linux), I've had zero problems with FF 2.0 on either.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak

EDIT:
And here's a 2.0 compatible tab mix plus from the author

http://stashbox.org/2924/tab_mix_plus-0.3.5rc2.xpi

[shugknight]

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Is anybody else getting a really slow connection? Ever sinced I switched up to FF2, my pages are slow to load. Even google.com is slow to load. Is there an extension to make it a little faster?

Also what other extensions do you have?

[mudtiger]

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No slow page loads here.

Adblock plus
All in one mouse gestures
IE view lite
Map this (adds right click option to get map if you select address text on page)
Quick note
Super drag and go (select text and drag it to open search on text in new tab)
Tab mix plus

[ODogg]

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Anyone know a fix to this one. Damn, that is like an involuntary action for me.

Ok, i just upgraded to 2.0, well actually I got my new computer (old one, just fixed) and installed 2.0 and I'm going nuts because when I hit Alt-S it goes to the stupid history instead of just sending my post to OS.

I've read this thread and searched around and saw some others with the same issue. Has anyone figured out how to re-enable Alt-S to post or am I doomed to going back to using Internet Explorer when I am on OS?

[ODogg]

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Ok, i just upgraded to 2.0, well actually I got my new computer (old one, just fixed) and installed 2.0 and I'm going nuts because when I hit Alt-S it goes to the stupid history instead of just sending my post to OS.

I've read this thread and searched around and saw some others with the same issue. Has anyone figured out how to re-enable Alt-S to post or am I doomed to going back to using Internet Explorer when I am on OS?

I just found this on the Mozilla forums and it seems to fix this Alt-S to post issue some of us were having. Thank goodness!!

You can either use Shift-Alt+S to submit or you can change it back to how it was using about:config
Change:
ui.key.chromeAccess to 5
ui.key.contentAccess to 4

This will allow you to use Alt for webpage shortcuts and Shift-Alt for Firefox's menu shortcuts