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Mozilla has officially released its next generation browser, Firefox 2.0. more

[NikonMike]

I believe that the final IE7 was released on Oct. 19, so FX2's Oct. 24 release is mere 5 days "late".
Actually, (unlike IE7), final release of FX2 is identical to its last Release Candidate, so one could say FX2 was around for a while already...

[d9c9]

I hope they don't take a nap there is a bug where instead of the About Firefox being in the application menu it is in a unseen menu right next to it before the file menu. Does anyone else get this?

[guzzisport]

So far I don't see anything in 2.0 that would entice me to move up from the Firefox/1.5.0.7 version I'm now using. Firefox 2.0 has this weird behavior that if you have multiple windows and you've minimized them all, you can't use command-N or the New Window menu selection to open a new window. One of the minimized windows has to opened up first. I have enough problems dealing with the weirdness of 1.5 slamming new windows back to the upper-left corner when moving them to the right on my 23" Cinema display (when you've got space, why use tabs?). That irritating behavior seems to be in 2.0 as well. I'll pass on this later version until it's more mature.

[Jamus]

We get to take a nap, he said.
Sleep well Moz coders! You deserve it.

[fds]

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I hope they don't take a nap there is a bug where instead of the About Firefox being in the application menu it is in a unseen menu right next to it before the file menu. Does anyone else get this?

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I certainly do not. Maybe an extension you installed is causing it.

[brycesteiner]

The improvements are subtle, but the more I use it, the more I like it. The integrated spell check is great for when I'm typing on newsgroups. The problems you are having may be a display driver problem. I don't seem to have the problems with the screen thing, but then again, I use the tabs.

[lkrupp]

How does Firefox make a living? How do the humans get paid for their work? What is the business model? I have never understood why Firefox exists.

[Grapho]

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I have never understood why Firefox exists.

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Why? or do you mean how it exists.

[d00d]

A large portion of their income is generated by... wait for it... Google searches. They get kicked back a large portion of the money generated by the Google searches done in the toolbar.

[fribhey]

it works fine on my mac

[doh123]

There is only 1 bug in Firefox 2 that really 'bugs' me, even though there is a way to get around it.
This bug is already listed in Bugzilla, but what happens is, if you have "always show tab bar" option checked, and only have a single tab open... and you hit CMD+W to close the tab, it blanks the tab out with a blank page but leaves the window open. If you dont have that option checked so the tab bar is hidden with a single tab open, it closes the whole window fine. This was added in the 2.0 update, but worked right in previous versions.

The other couple of things other people have listed here dont happen to mine at all. I can open new windows fine even if i have 50 other windows with multiple tabs minimized (i just tested it). I dont have any weird missing menu names, the "About Mozilla Firefox" is right where it should be under the Firefox tab. If you guys downloaded it a day early before the actual release date, try again now. Also try disabling all your extensions, or look for updates to them.

[Deejemon]

Huh? IE7?
I completely didn't even notice.
Yawn