Mozilla has released the long awaited Firefox 2 web browser. Firefox 2 is a major upgrade to its popular and acclaimed free, open source web browser. I just finished downloading and installing Firefox 2 on my Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris 10 x86 machines. I noticed improvement in performance, speed and user interface compared to version 1.x.
Firefox 2 has made web browsing easier and delivered best online experience. On Mac, I use both Safari and Firefox for my browsing. Unfortunately, Safari is not really working together with WordPress. For example, I lose all the editing functions when I write my post. The editing functions panel is not displayed in Safari. In the contrary, Firefox 2 displays the editing functions panel and I am able to access these functions by clicking on the icons. Firefox 2 allows me to easily write my posts.
I have not been using any Microsoft products since I completely ditched Microsoft in 1998. The only product that I had on my Mac was IE, Microsoft’s web browser. In terms of performance, speed and security, IE really sucks. I have deleted IE on my Macs and replaced with Firefox.
Mozilla makes improvements to the user interface, security tools and options for customization, combine to deliver rich, engaging, safer and more productive web browsing experience for all.
One feature I like most in Firefox is its ability to view background image and page info. These are valuable tools for web development. Another feature I use most is displaying my browsing history in the sidebar which allows me to browse my history side-by-side with web pages.
Tabbed browsing has become a de facto standard feature in most modern web browser. Mozilla has changed the user interface of tab and allowed moving tab to any position you like so that you can arrange the pages you are browsing according to your priority. Another plus for Firefox 2 which makes web browsing more productive. Apple’s Safari does not allow moving the tab.
Another good selling point of Firefox 2 over Apple’s Safari is the built-in spell checker in input fields. Firefox 2 will underline misspelling inline and is very useful for blogging. With Firefox’s built-in spell checker, there is absolutely no necessity to install additional plugins for blogging tools such as WordPress.
Although Apple’s Safari is also a nice web browser, it still needs some patch up to be on par with Firefox 2. The only best feature in Safari is its excellent support of international character encoding. Apple has done a great job not only in Safari but in Mac OS X and applications as the whole.
So much on the features that I like most and often use. I will let you to discover Firefox 2 yourselves.
Help me please…
I just installed Firefox 2.0, and all of a sudden, my username/password isn't being inserted in the signon window (it always was before). I tried the usual suspects–I did not mistakenly tell FF not to remember the password for this site; and I also tried the remember password bookmarklet, but all to no avail–FF will not ask me to remember this password. What do I need to do to get around this?
Hi Larry,
You did not mention your platform. I assume you’re using Linux. In your user root directory, look for .mozilla folder using the following command:
$ ls -lsap
cd into .mozilla and its subdirectories to locate bookmarks.html. Copy this file to another folder outside .mozilla.
Go to your user root directory again and delete .mozilla using the following command:
$ rm -Rfv .mozilla
Restart FF2. Copy bookmarks.html back into the folder where you can find the same file in .mozilla.
If the problem still persists, you can post to FF forum.
Good luck!
am not able to save images using firefox2..meaning am right clicking on the images and when i click on save image its not being saved???any suggestions??
[...] Last November I blogged about Firefox 2 here. I love Firefox but it is too buggy and slow in execution. Safari remains as my main choice of web browser. When inputting Chinese character, I will definitely for sure to use Safari. Its Chinese support is superb compared to Firefox. In Firefox, some of the Chinese characters cannot be displayed properly. Safari now supports inline spell checking. Although, I still use Firefox once in a while for some reasons, Safari remains my favorite web browser. [...]