Comments on: Firefox 2 Beta 1 review

By: theo

theo — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:36:11 +0000

for dictionnaries:

-> http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2006/Jul/13/howto_enable_spellcheckin.html

enjoy.

By: theo

theo — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:28:12 +0000

for the extensions, go into -> ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/extensions

in each folder (for example: {3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a} ), open the install.rdf file.

change the em:maxVersion value to “2.0b1″

if it doesn’t work, go to the official web site of the extension; for example, the tab mix plus extension is available for Fx 2.0b1 on the official web site, and so on …

enjoy.

By: MacManX.com | Blogroll Dive: 7/17/06

MacManX.com | Blogroll Dive: 7/17/06 — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:09:34 +0000

[...] And, Tom reviewed Firefox v2.0 beta 1. [...]

By: Keith Gaughan

Keith Gaughan — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:51:04 +0000

Hmmm… that’s something of pity. :-/

By: Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 10:44:15 +0000

Thanks for the link Michele.

On the dictionary front Keith - I presume you mean for spell checking? Firefox appears to use its own dictionary. It didn’t recognise words that I had already added to the Mac’s dictionary (i.e. Google, Mozilla and even Firefox!).

What Derek said!!!

By: Derek Lawless

Derek Lawless — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 08:15:00 +0000

Firefox’s greatest strength and weakness are its extensions.

The API for extensions should be in stone by now - there should be no need to disable/update extensions after a browser upgrade.

The firefox team also urgently need to develop a HIG for extensions and officially ignore those that don’t follow it.

Extensions shouldn’t have individual cobbled-together interfaces.

By: Keith Gaughan

Keith Gaughan — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:03:46 +0000

Not very confidence inspiring.

It’s a beta! Give ‘em a break!
One question though: though I’m using FreeBSD right now, I’d be interested in knowing if the Mac version uses the native dictionary or if it uses its own bespoke one, like it might on other systems.

Also, have you checked its memory usage? My single greatest complaint is about how much memory it ends up consuming.

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 18:41:32 +0000

eWeek have an indepth review with a load of screenshots

I won’t be able to test it just yet, as I’m using Ubuntu on this machine…