Firefox 2 Beta Released

[lee87]

Just thought I would let everyone know that the new firefox 2 beta has been released.

Just installed it and quite like the new features, it now has a built in spell checker which is now underlining all the words i've spelt wrong in this post in red (like word).

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Mozilla-Firefox-Final.shtml

Direct Link - http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....s/rc1/firefox-2.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.exe

 

[benjo plz.]

Cheers mate, im having this .

 

[Bezinator]

Cool - im guessing it its just as secure as the current public release?

 

[Kainz]

Rar! Cheers Yes to Bezinator's question.

 

[benjo plz.]

There's an Alpha for Firefox 3.0 there too .

 

[Raymond Lin]

What about all the extensions? do they still work?

 

[benjo plz.]

What about all the extensions? do they still work?

GreaseMonkey doesn't so at a guess, no.

 

[~J~]

There's an Alpha for Firefox 3.0 there too .

Been an Alpha for months, and yes, it's very Alpha

 

[Mr Men]

Great now none of my themes or extenstions work, even after removing the beta

 

[Energize]

Still says ver 1.5 in the about box? Wheres the spellchecker at?

 

[benjo plz.]

Still says ver 1.5 in the about box? Wheres the spellchecker at?

Doesn't seem to work with OcUK, works with other forums, says 2.01b in my about box .
Ah you have to alt click (i.e. use the other mouse button and do "spell check this field".

 

[lee87]

Still says ver 1.5 in the about box? Wheres the spellchecker at?

When I installed it, it kept the old version. There is 2 shortcuts in the quick launch bar, one for 1.5 and one for the beta.
The spell checker should work straight away, I was just typing the op and it was saying the spellings were wrong on the default settings.

 

[Nismo]

Just installed it here, ForecastFox and Flashgot both work fine, however FasterFox isn't compatible. Kept the old FF installation too.

Spell check it quite cool

 

[Bony Maloney]

Just installed it here, ForecastFox and Flashgot both work fine, however FasterFox isn't compatible. Kept the old FF installation too.

Spell check it quite cool

I have installed the "Nightly Tester Tools" add-on, and with that Fasterfox is working

 

[Nismo]

I have installed the "Nightly Tester Tools" add-on, and with that Fasterfox is working

Ta, might take a look at that

Though to be honest I never noticed too much difference with it before anyway

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Folks, this is not a beta, it's a beta candidate. Expect it to be alpha quality becasue that's what it is. I won't be switching until there is a release candidate as I'm not one for putting up with trunk builds.

 

[TheTiger]

Could download the portable version

http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/07/08/portable-firefox-20-beta-1-release-candidate/

 

[Meatball]

What are the planned new features? I hate IE7 so I'm deffinetly sticking with Firefox

 

[tolien]

Folks, this is not a beta, it's a beta candidate. Expect it to be alpha quality becasue that's what it is. I won't be switching until there is a release candidate as I'm not one for putting up with trunk builds.

This man speaks the truth.

Sites need to get a clue, and stop pimping Beta 1 RCs as the actual Beta 1, for umpteen reasons, not least that they don't get mirrored - so ftp.mozilla.org gets hammered.
Besides, there's a B1 RC3...

What are the planned new features? I hate IE7 so I'm deffinetly sticking with Firefox

There's a feature list of sorts here.

 

[marc_howarth]

Folks, this is not a beta, it's a beta candidate. Expect it to be alpha quality becasue that's what it is. I won't be switching until there is a release candidate as I'm not one for putting up with trunk builds.

I never knew it got that complicated, i always thought it was just beta and alpha!