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Yup, you all know me.....first I'm messing around with vista, and now I'm into the Firefox beta. From what I've seen it works quite nicely, similar to the original with a few tweaks, you've got a little X to close a tab on the tab, makes it a bit easier, i like. But of course the biggest thing, spell check integrated right into the browser. Thats right, make your forum posts coherent in firefox and avoid whatever the forum has set up here for it. Its great, works anywhere, and helps me with my spelling issues ;)
Whether or not I actually correct the little red lines (and they're really small and thus not intrusive) is a question that remains, but hey, its all good. And its fairly full fledged in terms of capabilities. I've only got one qualm with the spell check in firefox. It doesn't realize Firefox is a word!
Info here:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060710-7229.html
KilloWertz
07-10-2006, 11:24 PM
Nice. I'm a Firefox user as well. I'll have to check it out.
PMS BurningStar
07-10-2006, 11:48 PM
Woot!
They had a pre-released called Bon Echo which sucked, it was like a worser version on FF, nothing worked
Kal-El
07-10-2006, 11:58 PM
Awesome!
Installing now!
Fayth
07-11-2006, 05:02 AM
oo sounds like fun
my brother just converted me to firefox last week and i love :) Maybe I'll try this new beta...hmmm
Look Its a Panda
07-11-2006, 03:34 PM
I really hope they manage to turn Firefox away from the bloatware trend it's been heading towards lately. I'm currently running the IE7 Beta 3 on WinXP 64bit, and it works like a charm. Firefox had some issues on my old system, with both eating 100% CPU and tons of memory. Microsoft is really on to something with IE7, while the latest big updates to Firefox only made it slower and more sluggish.
I'll probably give the Firefox 2 beta a try as well, and hopefully they'll release a 64bit client as well as the 32 bit one.
Just wait a day or two before downloading!
I was reading on a site somewhere, this is not the official beta 2 release. It should not harm your computer, but the official one will be later this week. Ok, now that I've scared you all, i'm still using it and it works just fine, but basically it was an internal beta release candidate. Essentially, its a release candidate inside the company for the beta 2. There will probably be a few minor tweaks on the official version and this one will not have any upgrade capabilities, so you'll end up re-downloading the official beta release anyway.
Having said that, I've been using it the last couple of days and while the changes are subtle, I'm liking it a lot, especially with my style XP skin because firefox otherwise is a bit bland. They're also working on a better skin that hopefully will look a bit less out of style in vista.
KilloWertz
07-11-2006, 04:52 PM
Thanks for the large red warning. :)
The guy who worked for firefox seemed a bit worried that mass distribution of what wasn't supposed to be a public release could end up in a essentially a DOS attack on the mozilla servers. Fortunately I didn't install the quality feedback agent muhaha. And whats wrong with large red warnings? Should I go blue next time? (spell check owns btw)
KilloWertz
07-11-2006, 05:09 PM
The guy who worked for firefox seemed a bit worried that mass distribution of what wasn't supposed to be a public release could end up in a essentially a DOS attack on the mozilla servers. Fortunately I didn't install the quality feedback agent muhaha. And whats wrong with large red warnings? Should I go blue next time? (spell check owns btw)
Nothing. I was just messing with you. :)
Kelpie PMS
07-11-2006, 06:49 PM
<3 Firefox. I'll wait for the official one.
H2O SkywalkerX
07-11-2006, 07:56 PM
i have it, but i dont know how to use the spell checker.
if someone could clue me in that would be awesome.
Sir Tequila
07-11-2006, 08:02 PM
autoo spele chek?!!!!11 teh dayz of zis r ova!!!!11
xi Apocalypse ix
07-11-2006, 08:09 PM
Did anyone know that FireFox was built with the same engine that was used on Netscape8.1?
If i'm not mistaken the official beta has been released now :-)
Kal-El
07-12-2006, 05:23 PM
I really hope they manage to turn Firefox away from the bloatware trend it's been heading towards lately. I'm currently running the IE7 Beta 3 on WinXP 64bit, and it works like a charm. Firefox had some issues on my old system, with both eating 100% CPU and tons of memory. Microsoft is really on to something with IE7, while the latest big updates to Firefox only made it slower and more sluggish.
I'll probably give the Firefox 2 beta a try as well, and hopefully they'll release a 64bit client as well as the 32 bit one.
I also have IE7 and find it funny that some of MS's own features don't work. Such as Hotmails Picture upload tool to mass attach pictures to emails. When you try to use it it causes IE to crash. Pretty funny, but very annoying.
PS: Where would one find this "official" Beta?
H2O SkywalkerX
07-12-2006, 05:52 PM
i was wondering where the official beta was also.
This is directly off one of the mozilla servers --> clickie (http://149.174.36.116/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b1/win32/en-US/Firefox%20Setup%202.0%20Beta%201.exe)
Of course if you're prefer to just run through the http file server yourself it can be found under the standard releases folder (just keep digging, tis pretty easy to find)
http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html
It was put up today (wed) and as far as i'm aware is the public release.
Gypsyfly PMS
07-13-2006, 09:27 AM
Just wait a day or two before downloading!
I was reading on a site somewhere, this is not the official beta 2 release. It should not harm your computer, but the official one will be later this week. Ok, now that I've scared you all, i'm still using it and it works just fine, but basically it was an internal beta release candidate. Essentially, its a release candidate inside the company for the beta 2. There will probably be a few minor tweaks on the official version and this one will not have any upgrade capabilities, so you'll end up re-downloading the official beta release anyway.
Having said that, I've been using it the last couple of days and while the changes are subtle, I'm liking it a lot, especially with my style XP skin because firefox otherwise is a bit bland. They're also working on a better skin that hopefully will look a bit less out of style in vista.
Big red words on this site are for my use only Rip...didn't you receive the memo!
Done:p
BTW, I'm glad you're having fun with your beta:)
ooooo yea, sorry, i gotta use the big blue words It won't happen again gypsy!
I'm indeed having fun with it, spellcheck ftw!