Mozilla FireFox version 2.0 released!

[Zack Barresse]

Just an FYI to everyone, Mozilla has released FireFox version 2.0 available for download! Found here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/. Many improvements have been made. Here is the official announcement and press release: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/press/mozilla-2006-10-24.html. :cool:

[Zack Barresse]

One thing I noticed in forums like this with the new FF is instead of a standard Alt + s to submit your post, it is now Alt + S, or Alt + Shift + s. A little better, as it won't get as confused with the Alt key for the menu structure.

[Ken Puls]

Firefox has keyboard shortcuts? Who knew? LOL!

[lucas]

What's firefox?

[TrippyTom]

what the heck is up with everyone posting that quote? Inside joke or something? I read the post that originally created this fad - I guess I just don't get it.

[Ken Puls]

what the heck is up with everyone posting that quote? Inside joke or something? I read the post that originally created this fad - I guess I just don't get it.

Very much so, Tom. :) You need a VBAX secret decoder ring to get to the real message.

[malik641]

What's firefox?
Steve,
It's a web browser...found at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ :thumb

[lucas]

Thanks Joseph, I knew that but was just being a smart***
most of us use the browser that came with our OS....guess there are advantages to firefox...but?

[Zack Barresse]

But what?! FireFox 2.0 rocks!! 8-)

[malik641]

I say boo!! Firefox 2.0 is slow for me. Like right now as I write this post it intermittenly freezes...what the hell? This is so annoying! :banghead:

I'm going to search for some kind of patch or something.

[Zack Barresse]

I have the same experience (speed-wise) as IE. Hmm :think:

[Ken Puls]

I installed FF 2.0 on Vista last night. I'm also finding it a bit slow, but was putting it down to a video driver issue. Maybe I'll try posting from IE when I turn the laptop back on.

[malik641]

This is all too painful. It's as if FF is repeatedly checking something and freezes everything (web browser-wise) untill it's finished...and it happens every 15 seconds or so....grrrrr!!!! I want to go back to 1.7 or whatever the last version was.

Don't get me wrong, there's some things that I like about this new version...like earlier I closed out one window, and the whole FF closed :dunno but when I re-opened it it had a feature for "Restore previous state" or whatever it said and I said "Yes" and it reopened all the sites I had open before everything closed...very nice.

Maybe it's the plug-ins I'm using...I'll turn them off and see if that makes a difference.

But again, I say, this is all too painful.

[malik641]

Well, I uninstalled Mozilla, and the Add-ons that were non-compatible with FF2, but no luck. I'm using IE7 right now, and it's working much nicer than FF2...it only acts slow if I have another webpage loading while I'm replying to a post (or scrolling through a webpage). I guess this is good for now.

You know, IE7 looks pretty smooth, it's pretty nice. The screen fonts are smoother than FF2 for some reason.

[Ken Puls]

Well, I uninstalled Mozilla, and the Add-ons that were non-compatible with FF2, but no luck. I'm using IE7 right now, and it's working much nicer than FF2...it only acts slow if I have another webpage loading while I'm replying to a post (or scrolling through a webpage)

Interesting... I'm posting from IE7 right now and the typing is moving along quite nicely. I was going to say that I doubt it's the add-ons, but you never know. I use IETab, Gmail Notifier and the Littlefox theme. That's it.

[Ken Puls]

Okay, and this is posting from FF. Actually I'm having no issues with it right now. I will say that FF loads pages WAY faster than IE7 though. I think I'll stick to FF and monitor it.

[malik641]

Definitely agree that FF is loading pages faster than IE....Man, I just want the best of both worlds, ya know?

[Zack Barresse]

Oh, so you want to have your cake and to eat it too??!!

;)

[malik641]

Ya darn tootin'!!! :)

I've decided to use IE7 for the forum. FF2 is ENTIRELY TOO SLOW while posting!!! I don't get it...maybe it's saving data for the "Restore last session" feature? I wonder if I can disable that....:think:

[Ken Puls]

Hi Joseph,

There is a setting in the options|tabs for "warn me if opening multiple tabs will slow down Firefox". I do have that checked, but my issues seem to have gone away. I noticed it last night when I was trying to post to my new Wordpress blog.

At any rate, I'm back to FF2 and am staying there so long as I can. :)

[malik641]

I downloaded Opera and I like it, most especially the Tab Preview of the webpage if you hover over the Tab... but the problem I have with Opera is that it will not load this site?! I've already posted about it in a post Johny Bravo started a few months back.

I'm telling you, this is TOO PAINFUL because I'm typing and watching nothing happen for like 5 seconds and it happens every 10-15 seconds...and once the freezing stops I see the comp typing everything I typed in fast motion....it's too annoying. And what's worse, IE loads TOO slow...and Opera won't work in VBAX!!!!!

I feel like I fell in a hole, and am struggling to get out.

[lucas]

This is starting to sound like your server......I use and have always used IE with none of the problems listed so far.

[lucas]

I think you spilled coconut milk in your keyboard Joseph...:devil2:

[Ken Puls]

Joseph, is it just VBAX, or all sites? And are you using IE 6 or 7 now? (I can't remember and it's on the other page.)

[malik641]

First off, no co-co milk on the keyboard thanks. LoL

And it is all sites, but most notably when I'm entering data into a form field. And I'm using IE7..when I'm using it.

I was doing some searching and I found this nice info on how to make FF2 load pages MUCH faster, and it's true for DSL users!

http://jaywalking.us/?p=76

:thumb

But this sucks, really bad. This is agonizing. I'm just going to go to bed for now, and hope that i don't have nightmares about this.

[malik641]

Ok, I found Firefox 1.5.0.7 at www.oldversion.com (http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/www.oldversion.com) and I installed it and couldn't be happier! :):):) Everything works great! And it's (to me) truly the fastest web browser out there...especially with those mods from the above post :thumb:thumb what a difference!

[shades]

Glad you have it solved.

Actually the fastest browser is Camino (sleek version of Firefox on the Mac).