Firefox 2.0 - Worth the Upgrade?
Posted by Kerri on October 30th, 2006
Its amazing that a new version of a product can really excite people, especially on something like a web browser. Although I suppose that I spend most of my working day in
New features to the latest version of Firefox include the spell checker, which works with pretty much every bit of text you enter (including wordpress software 
) as well including a phishing detector which is obviously a good thing what with all those scam sites set up these days.
The news is so exciting that even the BBC news posted an article about it. This is great because it really is spreading the word about Firefox.
Only thing that I miss about the old Firefox browser is the x to close tabs being at the side instead of on each tab 
(not particularly a big deal). Definitely worth the upgrade though in my opinion.
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October 30th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
worth it
i <3 firefox
October 31st, 2006 at 11:06 am
With the Wii having Opera, I decided to try that out. And Im very happy with it. Uninstalled my firefox straight away.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:27 pm
so Opera’s better than firefox?
October 31st, 2006 at 5:08 pm
I wouldnt say better. Its different.
The good points are
- Its able to have widgets put on it. Likfe firefox/ie’s extensions.
- It has tabbed browsing, which is the norm now.
- It has tab preview’s ie if you hover your cursor over a tab you can see a image preview of that screen (somethng I believe which has been put in IE7)
Other stuff Ive never seen, correct me if Im wrong though…
- Short cut searches. Baiscally you can map any search engine to a single letter on the keyboard, then in the address bar type in a letter, ie “g” for google, followed by your queary an up pops you results. But you can do key mapping for any searches, ie W for wikipedia, e for ebay, p for your favourite porn search engine. Its up to you how you map the keys. And getting your results is as easy as typing in the address bar
and my favourite
- Mouse navigation. This is lots of fun. Basically al the commands you have to navigate the broswer you can map to simple strokes of the mouse, ie hold down the right mouse button and move it up and down could refresh the page, hold down rmb and move left could go back a page, hold down rmb and move down and left could open up a new window, what move you do and the reslt is up to you. Lots of fun.
There are of course some down sides, mainly being as it isnt as popular as IE and FF, not all sites support it. I have a very small problems viewing my wordpress dashboard. I can see everything that Im suppose to see in Opera, but it looks different in IE baiscally. And google calendar warns me that it is not supported by Opera, but I’ve not seen any problems using gcal at all.
Nothing major though.
Its worth the download and trying out for a week or two. You might get to like it.
I certainly do. Think Ill be sticking to it.
October 31st, 2006 at 5:09 pm
I have seen so many posts about the new Firefox and the consensus remains the same on each.. UPGRADE. It’s worth it.
October 31st, 2006 at 5:40 pm
cool, ill give it a try. i like the sound of mouse navigation.
October 31st, 2006 at 5:53 pm
List of mouse gestures
Also these can be modified and changed to suit your own needs. but these are the default gestures.
Its well worth the taster, its only a small application too so takes up nothing of your hardrvie, similar to FF