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by **DJGM** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 8:05 am

(Edit by Antony)

Firefox 2.0 is now officially available.

The finalised builds of Firefox 2.0 have been uploaded to the mozilla.org download servers earlier today.
Although Mozilla haven't publicly announced it yet, all builds for Windows, Mac and Linux are there.

Go here to download the relevant build for your language and OS platform.

(The download link should re-direct at random to a download mirror.)

More details and link to release notes soon . . .

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by **DJGM** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 8:43 am

As was the case when Firefox 1.5 was released, once again the RC3 build has been promoted to final status.

If you've already got Firefox 2.0 Release Candidate 3 installed, then you already have the finalised release.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

by **humpd** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 9:35 am

I assume that we must uninstall FF 1.5+ before installing FF 2.0? Also, will FF 2.0 allow me to add a mail button is it does in in Ff 1.5?

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by **DJGM** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 9:51 am

Firefox 2.0 will happily run alongside 1.5.x.x as long as you install it into a seperate directory.

On my system:

Firefox 2.x (en-US) ... [tt]C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox\2.x\en-US[/tt]

Firefox 2.x (en-GB) ... [tt]C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox\2.x\en-GB[/tt]

Firefox 1.5.x.x ... [tt]C:\Program Files\Mozilla\Firefox\1.5.x[/tt]

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

by **Antony** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 10:03 am

Have Mozilla.com announced the release/availability of Firefox 2.0?

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by **Fulvio** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 10:38 am

I did a Custom install of FF2.0, placing it into a different directory from that of 1.5.x.
And, no, there is no mail button for FF2.0. I criticized that move from day one, due mainly to a misunderstanding on the part of the developers. As you may recall, the Check Mail was giving some number of new messages, a feature which never worked. So, they chucked the entire thing. No extention has been able to replace what should have been a simple link.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

by **humpd** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 12:04 pm

Fulvio: its nice to see you back on the board again. I hope that in future improvement of FF 2, they include an extension that will allow a mail button to exist and call up a mail client. It does seem like a fairly simple thing to add.

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by **DJGM** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 12:06 pm

Antony wrote:Have Mozilla.com announced the release/availability of Firefox 2.0?

As I said at the start of the thread, Mozilla haven't officially announced it yet. Although the finalised Ffx 2.0 builds are
now available for download from Mozilla.org's FTP servers, they're leaving it until tomorrow for the official launch.

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by **J-M** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 5:30 pm

It appears that we have the first UserAgent samples available too:
http://sillydog.org/forum/sdp_78691.php#78691

These postings say the new Gecko revision included to FF2.0 is from Tuesday 20061010.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

by **Antony** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 10:05 pm

DJGM wrote:As I said at the start of the thread, Mozilla haven't officially announced it yet. Although the finalised Ffx 2.0 builds are now available for download from Mozilla.org's FTP servers, they're leaving it until tomorrow for the official launch.

Then, in my opinion, the title "Firefox 2.0 ... Available NOW!" is a bit misleading.

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by **Ramona** » Mon 23 Oct, 2006 11:44 pm

humpd,

Here is your Get Mail extension: Get Mail-2.5

For Firefox 2.0 Only!
Restores the mail functions to Firefox 2.
Uses 24px & 16px icons and a "Tools" menu entry (below Add-ons).
Uses the original keyboard shortcut for "New Message" CTRL + M

*Can be used with "Toolbar Extras" to enhance it's mail functions.

A few other Firefox 2.0 tweaks:

Consolidate all Toolbars into one
This also works in Thunderbird... you may already know this, but I didn't until today! :oops:

Remove GO button with userChrome.css

If you also want to remove the "GO" button, you can add the following code to your userChrome.css file, located here:
C:\Documents and Settings\user_name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.profilename\chrome

If you haven't created the userChrome.css file, then rename the userChrome-example.css file to userChrome.css.

At the end of the renamed file, leave at least one space, then add the code:

Code: Select all: #go-button-stack, .search-go-button-stack { display: none !important; }

Spellbound-II-2.0 Spellcheck
For Firefox 2.0 Only!
Replaces/Removes the default spellcheck menu entries.
Sets the pref layout.spellcheckDefault to 0.
Rebuilt from Spellbound 0.7.3. (EN-US Only!)

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

by **humpd** » Tue 24 Oct, 2006 11:14 am

Thanks, Ramona. I'll be installing it as soon as I download FF 2.0. By the way, does the spellcheck extension do a better job than the spellcheck included with FF 2.0? Just wondering since it is available on that site.

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by **James** » Tue 24 Oct, 2006 12:54 pm

I find this all a bit confusing. My RC2 version prompted me two days ago to upgrade to RC3 (which as Greg says is in actuality the final version). Why release RC3 a day before the final version? This seems rather pointless so I must be missing something. Furthermore, when you Google Firefox, it offers 1.5.0.7 and only on the right column does it mention FF 2 Preview Release. This is Tuesday so where exactly is the finished version supposed to be?

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by **SSS** » Tue 24 Oct, 2006 1:36 pm

James wrote:I find this all a bit confusing. My RC2 version prompted me two days ago to upgrade to RC3 (which as Greg says is in actuality the final version). Why release RC3 a day before the final version? This seems rather pointless so I must be missing something. Furthermore, when you Google Firefox, it offers 1.5.0.7 and only on the right column does it mention FF 2 Preview Release. This is Tuesday so where exactly is the finished version supposed to be?

Firefox 2.0 RC 3 was actually released on October 16th, not 2 days ago.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

by **James** » Tue 24 Oct, 2006 1:50 pm

All I know is that my RC2 prompted me to upgrade to RC3 two days ago. So what was released today and where is it?

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