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Firefox 2 alpha online

Started by brummie, March 20, 2006, 21:55:17 PM

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maximusotter

installer crashes on me. Oh well. :P

maximusotter

Regular tarball in same root directory works. Unpack and run. ;)

brummie

Is it anygood then? Im still using 1.0.7  :)

maximusotter

seems to hang a bit less under load.

uses your old profile just fine, tho some extensions wont work.

Wont hurt, just dont uninstall your old version as some stuff in Unbuntu is dependent on it. :P

brummie

How the hell are you getting it to run? It dont have it for me! I extracted everyting and found the firefox file but .....

maximusotter

Quote from: brummieHow the hell are you getting it to run? It dont have it for me! I extracted everyting and found the firefox file but .....

If you grabbed the non installer version, just unpack and double click on the firefox icon. Make sure its permissions are set to be executable. Mine was out of the box.

This one worked for me: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/prometheus-mozilla1.8/firefox-2.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

brummie

ahhh i was trying to upnpack the installer version  :oops:

brummie

Everything looks slightly different, must be the font

Extra tab closes are good  :thumbup:

maximusotter


Clock'd 0Ne

Is there any next level shizzle worth installing this for? Buggy 1.0.7 is due an upgrade but a hog of an alpha isnt going to be worthwhile for surely?

brummie

The tabbed browsing is slightly different and it seems faster.

Its running ok which im surprised at. Ifyou have linux its ok to test but dont know how youd get round installing it onver 1.0.7 in windows

Its meant to have new google features but i cant find them

maximusotter

hasnt crashed on me yet, just used it an hour or so though.

They moved the close tab button. Revelation of revelations. :lol:

Each tab now gets a button, but only the active one has a clitoral burnish to it, the others are greyed out.

I think its supposed to  have a phishing detector or something as well.

Other than that, not much different than 1.5 final that I usually use on my Dapper Drake.

maximusotter

Quote from: brummieIts running ok which im surprised at. Ifyou have linux its ok to test but dont know how youd get round installing it onver 1.0.7 in windows

Same as linux, just get the non-installer version: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/pacifica-mozilla1.8/firefox-2.0a1.en-US.win32.zip

brummie

Search in bookmarks is good. That in 1.5??

Search histry too  :thumbup: