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[Antony]

The Mozilla Corporation has released the first Releasing Candidate for Firefox 2. Firefox 2 RC 1 is a preview release of Mozilla Corporation's next generation Firefox browser. It is made to public for users who want to get a aneak peek and to report bugs.



From Firefox 2.0 RC 1 Release Notes:
There is a lot in Firefox 2 RC 1 that we invite you to play around with and give us feedback on:
* Visual Refresh
* Built in Phishing Protection
* Enhanced search capabilities
* Improvements to tabbed browsing
* Resuming your browsing session
* Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds
* Inline spell checking
* Live Titles
* Improved Add-ons manager
* JavaScript 1.7
* Extended search plugin format
* Updates to the extension system
* Client-side session and persistent storage
* SVG text
* New Windows installer

Firefox 2 RC 1 (:mac: Mac OS X )
Firefox 2 RC 1 (:win: Windows)
Firefox 2 RC 1 (:tux: Linux)

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[Antony]

As for the What's New in Firefox 2.0 RC 1, I can't see anything new since Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 except it has been rephrased.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/2.0

[James]

That being the case, is there any value in uninstalling the beta and installing this release candidate? Thanks.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b2) Gecko/20060821 Firefox/2.0b2

[Antony]

That being the case, is there any value in uninstalling the beta and installing this release candidate? Thanks.

No. Just wait for the final version.

Unless you are one of those who can't wait for the latest of whatsoever.

I downloaded the Fx 2.0 RC 1 just for the screenshots, and now back to Firefox 1.5.0.7.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

[Fulvio]

I am a hoarder, as you ,well, know. But, I would never install a non-final version. I am, still, working out of the nightlies, which may not be fully representative of the installed version, but are, so easily, disposable.

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[geffr]

The portable version is also out at
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/f ... table/test
I prefer this, as it allows full testing without touching my 1.5.0.7 profile.

So far, it seems stable.

Geff

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20060918 Firefox/2.0

[geffr]

After adding Forecast Fox, I am getting a few crashes on ebay, which I acknowledge probably has the worst coding on the web other then Hotmail. Not sure if the crashes are related to Forecast Fox or to an issue with RC2 & ebay. On the other hand, I have noticed that a couple small bugs with the beta are gone.

BTW, for those like me using the portable app version, they've disabled the browser cache to extend USB key life (which is really what the app is designed for, I just like it because it leaves my main FF profile totally alone). To enable the cache, o into about:config & change cache size from 0 to 50000.

Geff

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7

[Pu7o]

Since Firefox 2.0RC2 is out, shouldn't this be unpinned?

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