Firefox 2.0 RC1 Preview - Today by 3pm PDT

[Sheppard]

Why oh why do they put the refresh, stop etc. buttons to the right of the address bar? That is what frustrated me about IE 7 :angry:

Other than that, I like the new UI alot, particularly the refresh button looks nice (save for the location of it).

They don't, he has changed around the UI to how he likes it, by default its before the address bar.

[Guest]

Been using it for about 6 hours now. Very fast, very good looking, very stable. Good job Mozilla.

[Lare2]

Firefox

I still think that the theme from the 0.9 era was the best ever made for Firefox ;) Specially those green arrows (Y)

[Artifex]

Does anyone/anybody know if Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5 works with the RC, or will I have to install a TMP dev build?

Thanks in advance!

? Artifex ?

[Jon 5]

I'll have to try this out soon. I like the look of the new UI. The little x on each tab sounds good to me although I usually close tabs by click on my scroll wheel so I don't know how useful the x's will be to me.

If it is faster than before I will be very happy. Forget IE.

[Quillz]

I just upgraded to RC1. I like the new style!

[kurono]

Just updated and it's running nicely. I still wish the Go button wasn't apart of the Address Bar though... =/

[FlibbyFlobby]

Just updated and it's running nicely. I still wish the Go button wasn't apart of the Address Bar though... =/

about:config -> browser.urlbar.hideGoButton -> Set it to True.

[SamNeeds]

I had problems with it in XP. Haven't installed in Vista yet.

The problem was that the status bar was like 4 or 5 times its normal size. Did a clean install on the second go but the same result each time.

[Yochanan]

Does anyone/anybody know if Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5 works with the RC, or will I have to install a TMP dev build?

Thanks in advance!

? Artifex ?

Why don't you check out the forum and find out? I briefly tried it, but Roboform doesn't work with RC1 yet, only B2. There's actually quite a few functions of TMP now integrated in to Firefox, even a session saver. I did see in the forum there's a Userchrome.css hack that needs to be used since the tab bar is different. Other than that you'll have to read for yourself.

[1Frothy]

Just downloaded it! (Y)

The "spell check as you type" is awesome!!!

[Favorable7404]

Does anyone/anybody know if Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.5 works with the RC, or will I have to install a TMP dev build?

Thanks in advance!

? Artifex ?

Nope, it doesn't work atm along with Greasemonkey. But Flashgot and Dragdego work fine.

[neostyle]

the latest nightlies around this release have been rocksolid . open for days and with a lot of sites opened , used by differnet persons , and not one single crash .

my two complaints :

ram usage !!

theme : i really dont like it . it needs more colors .. :)

go firefox ...

[+Cryton Subscriber²]

The problem was that the status bar was like 4 or 5 times its normal size. Did a clean install on the second go but the same result each time.

Big status bar problems are caused by incompatible extensions.

- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Gray_bar_below_status_bar

[wolfman1380]

I'm liking this new version but the one thing that annoys me is the tab bar at the top, does anyone know how to move it to the bottom?

[zeroday]

I like this one a lot, no crashes so far, even with my essential extensions forced to be compatiable :D

[lordtinuviel]

I'm liking this new version but the one thing that annoys me is the tab bar at the top, does anyone know how to move it to the bottom?

create/edit the userChrome in your profile folder and add this:

/* Show tabs at bottom */

#content > tabbox { -moz-box-direction: reverse; }

[Shasoosh]

for all of you with the extensions problem, try this

[+Cryton Subscriber²]

for all of you with the extensions problem, try this

or do about:config in the URL bar, create a new boolean key called extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.

[Shasoosh]

or do about:config in the URL bar, create a new boolean key called extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.

i don't know how much it matters but with your tweak I'm getting a warning in every extension that its not compatible with firefox 2.0 in the addon menu. (i don't get this warning when i edit the rdf file)

[wolfman1380]

create/edit the userChrome in your profile folder and add this:

/* Show tabs at bottom */

#content > tabbox { -moz-box-direction: reverse; }

Cheers now im enjoying this version alot more. :DD

[Esmandau]

I LOVE FIREFOX :D

[Quillz]

create/edit the userChrome in your profile folder and add this:

/* Show tabs at bottom */

#content > tabbox { -moz-box-direction: reverse; }

I can't find this file. (I'm on WinXP.) Do you know where it's located?

[Yochanan]

Why don't you check out the forum and find out? I briefly tried it, but Roboform doesn't work with RC1 yet, only B2. There's actually quite a few functions of TMP now integrated in to Firefox, even a session saver. I did see in the forum there's a Userchrome.css hack that needs to be used since the tab bar is different. Other than that you'll have to read for yourself.

Update:

Don't bother with 0.3.0.5, there's too many problems. However, 0.3.0.60915 (dev) is working fine. Roboform released a build for the RC's today, so I've moved from 1.5 to 2.0 RC1 fully. You can see the extensions and themes I'm using here. Every one is working fine.

[Flash]

How is the memory usage?