Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Firefox 2 - wow!
I have been running Firefox 2 since the hour it came out.
I am really impressed.
The upgrade was smooth and easy. I figured I would all but have to start over from scratch - reload all my bookmarks, reinstall all my extensions, re-enter all my usernames/passwords, and set up all my cookies again.
I was wrong.
All I had to do was replace the Firefox.app file I had in my Mac /Applications folder with the new one, and that was it.
After I launched the new version (from /Applications) it walked me through the upgrade
It runs like lightening. People are not expressing how fast it is.
Safari is fast on the Mac.
Firefox seems just as fast as Safari on the Mac.
This time around, the conversion of extensions seems to have been done virtually all in advance. Going from Firefox 1.0 to 1.5, I waited days, weeks, and in one case months for the authors to upgrade their extensions. This time extensions being Firefox 2 ready when Firefox 2 was ready was the rule, not the exception.
Even the developer tools I run all the time were ready to use.
Some websites, like TV.com, work way better with Firefox 2 than they did with Firefox 1.5. Particularly, the WYSIWYG editor for posting blog entries and forum posts.
Upgrading to Firefox 2 was a really great experience.
I am really impressed.
The upgrade was smooth and easy. I figured I would all but have to start over from scratch - reload all my bookmarks, reinstall all my extensions, re-enter all my usernames/passwords, and set up all my cookies again.
I was wrong.
All I had to do was replace the Firefox.app file I had in my Mac /Applications folder with the new one, and that was it.
After I launched the new version (from /Applications) it walked me through the upgrade
process. I barely had to do anything; just a couple mouse clicks.
It runs like lightening. People are not expressing how fast it is.
Safari is fast on the Mac.
Firefox seems just as fast as Safari on the Mac.
This time around, the conversion of extensions seems to have been done virtually all in advance. Going from Firefox 1.0 to 1.5, I waited days, weeks, and in one case months for the authors to upgrade their extensions. This time extensions being Firefox 2 ready when Firefox 2 was ready was the rule, not the exception.
Even the developer tools I run all the time were ready to use.
Some websites, like TV.com, work way better with Firefox 2 than they did with Firefox 1.5. Particularly, the WYSIWYG editor for posting blog entries and forum posts.
Upgrading to Firefox 2 was a really great experience.
Hopefully, someday I will get this page to validate!
