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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 6:10 pm
by Super Goat Weed
so apparently there's a firefox 2 now
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
I'm just wondering what it is exactly... an update? a whole new system?
I kinda like my firefox the way it is, so i don't really want to mess with it unless there's a real improvment here.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:07 pm
by Chewi
It's been out for a little while now. It's an important update like most browser updates. I don't use Firefox as my primary browser so I haven't really noticed the differences but it looks pretty much the same on the face of it. Go for it.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:02 pm
by Matt
Spell checker, phishing protection etc etc. It's worth it. I mean, you should always use the updated version.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:49 pm
by Super Goat Weed
i did, i just didn't know if it was an update, or a whole new take on the browser.
It's basically the same thing, just more shiny.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:48 am
by Matt
Pretty much
What were you using before? 1.5.0.7? If so then it is indeed a full update.
FF2 had been out not more thana week when FF3 was starting to be worked on. Using Gecko or something like that. Which again, looked no different at all.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:10 am
by Chewi
Every version of Firefox has used Gecko.
It's the rendering engine that comes from Mozilla.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:43 am
by Matt
Well, they're apparently using some format that isn't supported by any OS going, or something....iirc.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:07 am
by kaos
Pissing protection?
AWESOME!
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 12:16 pm
by EchoPark
i use firefox everynow and again .. i dont use the whole spell checker as u all notice the only thing i really liked .... was the whole Remember passwords, i think my Avant has problems doing shit like that, its gettin like my gran.
Also it was the only brower to open up theAA and AOL from my location not long back lol
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 1:04 pm
by Chewi
Hehe. That's probably because AOL owns Netscape and Netscape uses Gecko. And for those who don't know their history, Netscape was Gecko until it was open sourced and forked as Mozilla.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 2:30 pm
by Mik
I thought Clint Eastwood was only directing films these days, isn't that aircraft abit out of date ?
the cold war is over...
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:49 pm
by Chewi
Dunno about everyone else but that went right over my head!
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:18 pm
by Super Goat Weed
mine too.
that's a short flight these days though...
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 7:43 pm
by kaos
the only eastwood flicks I know of are westerns and million dollar baby.
Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:09 am
by Mik