Firefox 2 worth installing?

Geffen

Geffen

Geffen

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I'm currently using firefox 1.5.0.9 and am happy with it but have just noticed that firefox 2 is now out and i'm wondering if it's worth upgrading to it. What are people views on it, from a search a number of members suggested it was unstable previously is this still the case?
 
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I've been using it for months and I haven't had a lick of trouble. The integrated spellchecker means I have to run fewer extensions. :)

EDIT: And it runs just fine on Vista. :confused:
 
I've found v2 much more stable than v1.5.
Recommend it.

MofoKilla said:
firefox is million times faster and better than IE used it for months never had a problem with it.
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I've always found FF slower than IE.
Any version.

The main reason I use FF is for the extensions.
 
I too have found it more stable then 1.5. Hardly crashed on me this one.

Though my version of 2.0 doesn't seem to have a spell checker :/
 
Combat squirrel said:
what you guys doin :confused: whatever version of firefox iv used its never ever ever crashed, maybe you have setup/hardware issues ?
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LOL - No hardware issues here. ;)
No other program crashed...
Prime95 stable for a weekend.

Do you close your FF every day?
I found that if it was left open with numerous tabs open for over a week it would sometimes crash.
Using 300MB+ of memory is also usual.

Session Manager is a god-send.
Although v2 seems to be better at opening PDF's than 1.5 too - Doesn't cause FF to freeze whilst it loads it.
 
Captain Fizz said:
I found that if it was left open with numerous tabs open for over a week it would sometimes crash.
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Why would you do that anyway? :confused:

Anyway, V2 is fine for me in Vista and doesn't suffer from the crashes I used to get in a previous build.
 
IE7 is much better in my opinion. Tried FF and didnt like it. Person preference I suppose. You may like FF better. No harm in trying it - its free!
 
Nismo said:
Why would you do that anyway? :confused:
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So I don't need to re-open the various forums/thottbot links/pages I'm referring to every day.
It serves as a little reminder too. :p
(Oh, needed to do that... /fill out form etc)

V2 has not crashed on me yet though. Been well over 2 weeks its been open at times.
 
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