FireFox Version 2.0.0.1 release.

[kinghanco]

www.mozilla.com/en-US/

[smegforbrain]

Is it worth upgrading from v1.5.x to v2.0.x before they stop doing updates to v1.5?

[Ultima]

Probably, as I'm sure extension developers have switched by now. Any extension or whatever keeping you from upgrading?

[patrickp]

Besides which, most extensions (or the ones I'm using, anyway) would actually work in v 2.x anyway - it's just that they haven't been modified to recognise v 2.x yet. Nightly Tester Tools will fix that.

[smegforbrain]

ultima said:

Any extension or whatever keeping you from upgrading?

Not really. I just didn't get around to it when it came out, but after my wife's computer did the automatic update, it screwed up alot of her settings, so I put it off since I didn't want to have to screw around with the firefox settings on my computer.

[Gamesoul Master]

One thing I have to say about Firefox 2.0... the text onscreen looks better. It used to look... a bit ugly. It seems, though, that they did some work on that. But... I'm also pretty sure that it uses more memory than 1.5 did, and it seems just a hair slower... other than those things, it runs quite fine.

[Deleted]

I haven't done any thurough testing of both, but I'm using FF2 now. After some modifying (repositioning the tabclose button, hiding the big fat go button, among others), it's okay.

[smegforbrain]

Well, I went ahead and installed 2.0.0.1 last night, and aside from the new 2.0 theme (why didn't they leave the 1.x theme available, I'll never know, but I had *finally* gotten used to it ), not much different.

The memory usage might be a little better, but it's hard to say so far. No screwups with my settings either.