It's here!
Go get it!
Some of the new features.
It's here!
Go get it!
Some of the new features.
I'm hoping inline spellchecking improves the basic level of conversation on the forums.
I've been using ff2 since beta2, and found it quite nice to work with. I've already installed it on all of the machines I support at work (except for the gentoo ones, where it's not hit portage yet).
The improved tabbing feature is kind of a moot point since I don't really make use of tabs....I think I'm the only Firefox user who doesn't really make use of tabs.
But this:
"Session Restore
Losing your place while you’re doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart or closes when it comes back you’ll pick up exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running will all be restored. You can even set Firefox 2 to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page, so you’ll never lose your place again."
That is an awesome feature. Especially when Acrobat TRIES to load and just ends up locking Firefox.
EDIT: how rude of me....Thanks for the link!
I love the spellchecker, it's already helped me here in the forums. The rest of the new features, I kinda already had through extensions. It incorporated a lot of the most popular extension features. The search suggestions are kinda nice too.
Just waiting for Tab Mix Plus to be 2.0 compatible, since I like their tabs management better. Other than that, I'm pretty happy with it.
My only real complaint is that the "Go" menu was replaced with the more accurate "History" one. Superficial, I know.
Heh. Just found the Closed Tabs List. Now I've got nothing to worry about until Tab Mix Plus comes out.
The tabs x's will definitely help. And wow, spell check is great, now I have no excuse to write incorrectly.
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Last edited by gr3atfull; Tue, 10-24-2006 at 08:11 PM.
What exactly is new about the tabs again? I just got it and so far it's just been the spell check that's a major change. There were tags in the original right? So far all I've seen as a change is that the "x" to exit a tabbed window is now on the tab and not at the top right.
LaZie made this...a long time ago.
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it's pretty darn good. The "Session Restore" function is pretty good, and the spellchecker will help many people, but I prefer not to rely on that too much...
I think I'll play around with the new Firefox from time to time, but for now I'm sticking with Opera. Good tabbing system, Session Restore AND Session Saving, and its Mouse Shortcuts totally make the Back and standard interface buttons a thing of the past.
edit - and for chaos' question
Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.
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Got it, but I feel crippled without Tab Mix Plus. It's fucking annoying that I can't just double-click a tab to close it.
Got it, and nothing to complain about. Fortunately it's not hugely different compared to the old one. I might end up following Complich's advice, though, and disabling the per tab close buttons. Time will tell.
I never used any plug-ins in the old version, so that was no issue for me when updating to 2.0.
There's virtually no difference between 2.0 and 1.5 because everything 2.0 brings to the table, 1.5 supported with extensions. Some of you mentioned "session restore." I believe that was one of the features of the Tab Mix Plus extension. The X on the individual tabs were also part of Tab Mix Plus.
Some miscellaneous extensions like Disable Download Targets aren't compatible with 2.0, but in this specific case it seems like 2.0 itself has that feature built in, minus the customizeability.
I'm not bashing on 2.0, I'm just saying it's not as big of a change as I had expected. I just went from IE6 to IE7 and that was one hell of an overhaul.
Does anyone know how to change the scroll line amount in Firefox?
I just switched over, and since I use my laptop mostly, I'm accustomed to using the arrow keys to scroll up and down. Firefox scrolls really slowly though, I'm assuming the line amount is set to about 1, whereas I had it on a higher number in IE. How do I change this setting?
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you might be looking for the scrolling settings under preferences->advanced->general->browsing. I've found that using smooth scrolling often causes major slowdown (and generally annoys the shit outta me). Smooth scrolling overrides windows scroll settings, and is generally unfriendly.
If turning smooth scrolling off doesn't help, go to about:config and search for "scroll" and you might find something to tweak there (but a lot of those are for horizontal scroll, so maybe not).
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