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FireFox Beta 2

Reply #1 –
very good. new theme sucks.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #2 –
Screencap, perhaps ?

Anyways, what's so different with Ffx 1.5.0.6 ?

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #3 –
for users who are currently using the windows classic theme, firefox's new theme just plain sucks. it looks horrible.

on a side note, i've also heard that the new beta uses up to 50% more memory than 1.5
 

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #5 –
Thanks for the screenshots kwanbis. I don't like both of the themes, but my favorite iFox is also available for FF2

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Reply #6 –
The only thing I like about the Beta is the bigger search box.
we was young an' full of beans

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #7 –
The earlier beta and the alphas before it were prone to crashing on my end; I don't know why.

The new beta is just as stable as 1.5.0.x. I don't like the look of the tab bar, but I prefer the 2.0 RSS handler.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #9 –
If you want to do it without installing extensions, create userChrome.css in your profile\chrome directory.

Code: [Select]
/*
 * Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning
 */
@namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */

.searchbar-textbox {
    width: 110px !important;
}


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Oops, I thought you disliked the big search box. You actually like it.  Oh well.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #11 –
I haven't done any extensive testing, and I don't trust the task manager, but the numbers in task manager for "Memory" and "VM Size" do look higher in beta 2 compared to 1.5.0.6.

I'm happy with beta 2, though, because I prefer to have "tab close" buttons on individual tabs.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #12 –
Quote from: kjoonlee on
I'm happy with beta 2, though, because I prefer to have "tab close" buttons on individual tabs.
that function has been there for ages via the Tab_X extension.
Nothing but a Heartache - Since I found my Baby ;)

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Reply #13 –
Quote from: Mangix on
someone on some other forums told me that. i doubt that it's true but it could be. but then again, it will be a long time before something will make me switch to Firefox.

FF2 has much, much less memory leaks. I know cause i have the mem leak detector running, and before b1, i had leaks like 50 times a day. Now i have 1/2 a day at most.

What is it that you are using?

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #14 –
Quote from: Digga on
Quote from: kjoonlee on
I'm happy with beta 2, though, because I prefer to have "tab close" buttons on individual tabs.
that function has been there for ages via the Tab_X extension.

I know. When I was a fan of Galeon, I loved that feature, but when I moved to Firefox I mostly forgot about it.

The Firefox 2.0 alphas brought it back, and I fell in love with it again. When I moved back to Firefox 1.5.0.x, I installed that extension.

Now I don't have to. Yay!

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Another thing I like about b2: in Korea, there are a lot of RSS links (<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="rss" blahblahblah />) that lead to a "permission denied" page. (Don't ask me why.)

Firefox 1.5 used to allow subscribing to such bad feeds. Firefox 2.0 beta 2 now shows you the error page instead of letting you subscribe to it.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #15 –
Quote from: kwanbis on
FF2 has much, much less memory leaks. I know cause i have the mem leak detector running, and before b1, i had leaks like 50 times a day. Now i have 1/2 a day at most.

Wow, there are more fewer memory leaks?! I count me in the count!

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #17 –
Quote from: Synthetic Soul on
Quote from: pepoluan on
Quote from: skelly831 on
The only thing I like about the Beta is the bigger search box.
IIRC there's a plugin for 1.5.x that provide a way to resize the search box. But I don't use it, so I don't know what it's called.
It's called Resize Search Box.  It's one of my must-haves.

Seems to be aptly named, I'll give it a shot.
we was young an' full of beans

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #18 –
Quote from: kwanbis on
Quote from: Mangix on

someone on some other forums told me that. i doubt that it's true but it could be. but then again, it will be a long time before something will make me switch to Firefox.

FF2 has much, much less memory leaks. I know cause i have the mem leak detector running, and before b1, i had leaks like 50 times a day. Now i have 1/2 a day at most.

What is it that you are using?

Opera. it's the only web browser that suits me. i've also customized it a lot allowing it to use google suggest and IE . but when i want to go to some website where Opera isn't supported(Google Labs's new stuff), i use K-Meleon because i hate big resource usage.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #19 –
I used to use Opera... but then have to cry out loud when I found out no one else supported its mailbox.

Leter I decided to use Firefox. A lot cleaner for me. All-in-one wannabees nowadays make me irk (brrr... I recall Norton Systemworks...)

Now I got 200MB worth of mailbox locked in the Opera mailbox...  ... can anyone tell me how to import it into Thunderbird?

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Reply #20 –
i don't know if Opera Webmail supports POP3 so if it doesn't, then you might not be in luck. i like Opera better because it has a cleaner interface while Firefox has it's stupid XUL.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #21 –
For me its just the oposite, FF interface is way cleaner. And i have been contantly trying Opera since 2.11.

FireFox Beta 2

Reply #24 –
Firefox 2.0b2 chugging along fine here. I'm lazy to take memory data, but Firefox 2 has only crashed once on me so far (third-party plugin as usual), and even then it restored my crashed session perfectly.

For those who like using optimised builds, try out the builds from this guy: http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html