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Firefox RC3
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:45 pm
by UBT - Mikee
Just went to 'Help' - 'Check for Updates' and RC3 available!
Gotta try it! Probably not much difference to RC2!
Here for the quick find!
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:51 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Not going to touch it now until the final release
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:09 pm
by James Box
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Not going to touch it now until the final release
lol
What trouble did you have with 1.5?
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:31 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Slow unresponsive always crashing etc etc
No one on the forums there could seem to point out to the cause of the problems so I just ditched it
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:37 pm
by James Box
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Slow unresponsive always crashing etc etc
No one on the forums there could seem to point out to the cause of the problems so I just ditched it
That's what IE is always like for me!
Hope 2.0 works out better.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:25 am
by DJH@GB-Ro
James Box wrote:That's what IE is always like for me!
That's what IE is like for everyone
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:05 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
DJH@GB-Ro wrote:That's what IE is like for everyone
Speak for yourself its fine for me
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:13 pm
by DJH@GB-Ro
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:DJH@GB-Ro wrote:That's what IE is like for everyone
Speak for yourself its fine for me
I use it every day and very rarely the same computer each day, I've used it on two different computers today, both ones I've never used and both have a connection of 8Mbps. Always seems slow and very primitive compared to Firefox.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:15 am
by DJH@GB-Ro
Been using RC3 for a day, seems pretty much the same as 1.5 except appearance, and it seems a little slower, could be because the fasterfox extension wasn't compatible.
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:22 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Final version should be out today
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:20 pm
by James Box
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Final version should be out today
It's out, but until it's officially announced, you'll have to hunt it down at a local mirror.
http://www.mozilla.org/mirrors.html
firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-GB (or change the last 2 to suit your preference...)
Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:52 pm
by James Box
Am using it now. Seems to be running pretty smoothly even without the Fasterfox extension.
Cool. Just noticed that it is spell checking this window as I'm typing it...
8)
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:32 pm
by Temujin
I've been using firefox 2 on my linux box at home for the last couple of days and apart from a couple of little niggles, I'm quite pleased with it.
today I did a google for firefox tips and found a mozilla page with loads of tips (
this one).
On that page in the
Other Tips section is an
Enable Pipelining link. Well I've just done what it suggests and firefox really flies now, I don't know if its the same frig that fasterfox uses (never used it) but it really has made a difference to page loading times.
Well worth giving it a go :thumbup:
Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:20 pm
by Martle
Hi John
I've just done the 'enable pipelining' thang on my Winders setup and it's really speeded things up for me too.
Thanx for sharing that with us.
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:26 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Trying the new release now, have gotten fed up of IE for now
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:29 pm
by James Box
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Trying the new release now, have gotten fed up of IE for now
:lol:
Good luck!
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:36 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Anyone know how to make MSN Messenger use Firefox browser instead of IE
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:40 pm
by James Box
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Anyone know how to make MSN Messenger use Firefox browser instead of IE
Beyond setting FF as your default browser, I don't know. Quite possible that MSN is tied to IE.
Use a better chat client like Trillian that supports MSN, ICQ, AIM, IRC etc...
Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 6:43 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Found a answer got a add-on for MSN that needs to be installed