Firefox

[Slime101]

According to mozilla.com the latest version is 2.0, i'm running 1.5.? but it says there are no updates available??

Anyone care to enlighten me?

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I don't know why it doesn't update from 1.5.0.8 automatically either. I waited for a friend's to auto-update since the release of 2.0 and it hasn't donw anything. Last week I broke down and just downloaded and installed 2.0 manually for her. It worked nicely.

EDIT: This thread says that, "Note: Firefox 1.5.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until April 24, 2007. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 2." I suppose that they're doing it as they consider the 1.5 branch stable whereas 2.0 is still maturing.

 

[GraemeUK]

I imagine they didn't want to try and force everyone to upgrade to FF2.0 as some people will be perfectly happy with 1.5.xx and may not want some of the new features yet and/or before they are ready. Personally, I think thats a good thing. Unlike *No disguised swearing!*.

 

[tolien]

1.5.0.8 will upgrade to 2.0, - when the update is posted. Until Mozilla post the update on AUS, Firefox won't auto-update to 2.0. At last count, that was "sometime soon" - possibly after 2.0.0.1's release (Tuesday the 19th at last guess), your guess is as good as they next person's.

You will get the choice of whether to upgrade though (which was one of the reasons behind the changes to the update code in 1.5.0.8).

 

[CBP]

I've just started using mozilla ff 2.0 after the ie7 upgrade meant i couldn't attach files to emails again.

I really like ff now!

 

[rickyt]

No problem , Firefox is a small program to start with ,so just uninstall it and install version 2.0 . I just got rid of v 1.5 on a few PC's and re-instaled the new version . It will keep all your bookmarks etc , so ,you'll not loose anything. Version 2 is really good and you'll find you can download from *apidshare , I could'nt before.