Firefox 2 release candidate 3 out

The mozilla team silently released the new, and probably last, release candidate of the upcoming firefox 2 browser. You can download it as usual from the offical website in many different languages and for windows, macintosh and linux. No word on the official pages about the changes in this version, just wait a few days and they surely add some additional information.

So, everyone who does not want to wait should update his firefox 2 beta version to the new release candidate. I will wait until they release the final product, had serious troubles with the first release candidate which crashed a lot on my system. Let me know if you try the new version and find changes or have troubles with the new release.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Tuesday October 17, 2006 -
Tags:Firefox, mozilla

Responses so far:

1. George Chernikov says:

   October 17, 2006 at 11:31 am

   I just had a look at the new version, and, to be honest, I’m a little bit disappointed that there’s no “New Tab” button anywhere on the interface. Call me lazy, but having to either go into the menue or use a two-key shortcut just to create a new tab always annoyed me. I recall seeing the new tab button on the toolbar on the screenshots of one of the previous candidate releases – I guess they have removed it?

   I must also say that I was somewhat hoping for a more modern, sleaker interface – I quite liked the way pages looked in IE7 (especially the font, I just loved it), but, on the whole, I found IE7 Beta 2 to be way too slow compared to Firefox, not to mention all the possible security issues.

   FireFox RC3.0 looks fairly stable so far, but I was hoping for some interface improvements, both in terms of functionality and visuals.

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2. Al Delacruz says:

   October 17, 2006 at 4:22 pm

   George,
   Go to View>Toolbars>Customize and drag and drop the “New Tab” icon into your toolbar area.

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3. gk says:

   October 17, 2006 at 7:37 pm

   Version 2.0 is working fine for me
   It consumes less memory, and faster
   But I miss all the extensions
   I had tens of extensions, none of them works on 2.0

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4. Jesse says:

   October 19, 2006 at 4:31 am

   Yeah 2.0 is working a lot better for me, I didn’t jump on it till RC2 though. I do miss alot of my extensions though. Mainly the auto complete one.

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