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[DeVS]

Firefox 2.0 was just released! It has a lot of improvements like anti-phishing and a spell checker that will do real time spell checking no matter where your typing. Grab it here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

[rocky]

Awsome! Ive been waiting for this.  the spell checker will realy help

[popinadam]

I'll stick to my IE7, I used to do the Opera route for the longest time which I still think is a great browser but IE has come quite a ways since then. There are so many different browsers out there, should only need one and I found mine ... for now.

[rocky]

Is their a way to get that email link in the top right corner like the old firefoxes?  I think they took it out because it was causing problems or something?

[DeVS]

It has a memory leak but the old memory leak hack works:

1)Type about:config into the location bar and press enter
2)Right click any line to bring up a sub-menu
3)Choose “new”>”integer”
4)paste this into the dialogue that appears: browser.cache.memory.capacity
5)Next click Okay
6)Specify the amount in kb (about 60000 should do) in the next dialogue that appears

This cut my memory usage in half for Firefox 2.0

[darkuni]

Die hard Opera dude here ... I'm glad for competition in the browser market, but even Firefox 2.0 can't drag me off my Opera 9

[jmr]

ive been using the betas of 2.0 for a while now
the only problem was most of my extensions stopped working
so im glad to hear the finals out now

[sinkhead]

I prefer Opera. Although after DeVS mentioned that 'hack' I might switch back...

[DeVS]

Found in Mozzila forums how to get the X to close tabs off the tabs themselves and back to the right side like the old way. Type about:config in the browser address bar, then find "browser.tabs.closeButtons" and change it from 1 to 3.

[onekelly]

Is there a reason not to use IE7?

[NT]

I think 2.0 is great so far.  They integrated a lot of stuff from well-known extensions into the browser.  I no longer need Tab Mix Plus because the default tab handling in 2.0 is just what I need.  

Also, put this into your address bar:

about:mozilla

[NT]

Is there a reason not to use IE7?

Inevitable security/spyware vulnerabilities, no extension support, fewer features, etc...

[onekelly]

So the same as before with IE6

[NT]

So the same as before with IE6

Pretty much.  I don't see any compelling reason to use IE7 over Firefox.

[onekelly]

ntolerance, thanks for the info. That is what I kinda thought.