Firefox 2 Alpha 2 available

[iago]

www.mozilla.com

Since I was still using Alpha1, it was an automatic update.  They made it look prettier/shinier, an added a few handy features.  Tabs are handled a little better, and there's a built-in spellchecker, which is always handy.  The settings page is completely revamped and sexy.  They're definitely moving in a good direction! :)

Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut.  I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(

[Joe]

Tab Enter is how I do it.

Thanks for posting, iago. :)

[RoMi]

They call it Beta 2 on their website.  http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0b2.html

[Ergot]

That's because silly iago uses the Canadian alphabet that starts where alpha follows beta :).

[iago]

Well, they went from Alpha1 to Beta 2.  Shut up :P

[Joe]

Next it'll be gamma. Ahahaha, Joe made a funny!

Interesting though, that gamma is a computer term as well. :)

[Ergot]

Yea... you need to put down the crackpipe iago...
It was clearly Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 according to this slashdot article from July: http://slashdot.org/articles/06/07/11/1228248.shtml
Then again, it might have just been you using some Alpha version.

[rabbit]

Alpha is like the Beta form of a Beta (at least with Firefox), isn't it?

[Joe]

It uses too damn much bandwidth.

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Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=257ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=208ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=1561ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=1935ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=983ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=372ms TTL=239
Reply from 72.14.205.104: bytes=32 time=257ms TTL=239

It didn't raise above 500ms before while browsng the forums.

[iago]

Wow, the search box drops down an auto-completes to common searches.  I'm not entirely sure where the info comes from, or if it's a privacy risk (does it save my queries?  I don't know...).  Either way, it's really cool, I put in "HandleGOTD" and it filled in "font download".  "javaop bot" and "javaop battle.net" are there. 

I'm going to search it for "x86 clan rules" -- can somebody else on FF2 try searching that?  I'm curious if it gets saved. 

[iago]

Also, it's Google that suggests searches, not FireFox, which means I know who to blame is this is a privacy thing:

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GET /complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&qu=rul HTTP/1.1
Host: suggestqueries.google.com
[.....]

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[......]


The actual search code is gzip'ed, so I didn't bother posting it here. 

You can get your own suggestions by filling in the query here:
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&client=firefox&qu=x86

[MyndFyre]

Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut.  I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(

I hate web page shortcuts.  If I press Alt+E, I want to use the Edit menu, not go to the "Search" box on Wikipedia.  And no, I didn't want to "Delete" the page from my MediaWiki either (on a plus side, at least IE doesn't automatically navigate to the "delete" page when I press Alt+D), I wanted to go to the address bar.

I think that it's the worst "feature" ever to come across into browsers.

[rabbit]

Address bar is F6, silly :P

[iago]

x86] link=topic=7227.msg90461#msg90461 date=1157500588]

Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut.  I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(

I hate web page shortcuts.  If I press Alt+E, I want to use the Edit menu, not go to the "Search" box on Wikipedia.  And no, I didn't want to "Delete" the page from my MediaWiki either (on a plus side, at least IE doesn't automatically navigate to the "delete" page when I press Alt+D), I wanted to go to the address bar.

I think that it's the worst "feature" ever to come across into browsers.

Hah, you're probably right. Although I probably wouldn't make a shortcut to something dangerous like Delete :P

And Rabbit's right, the addressbar is F6 :)

[MyndFyre]

x86] link=topic=7227.msg90461#msg90461 date=1157500588]

Bad things: they screwed up alt-s as a shortcut.  I sent in a bug-report about it, I hope they fix it, I hate submitting posts by clicking on "Post" :(

I hate web page shortcuts.  If I press Alt+E, I want to use the Edit menu, not go to the "Search" box on Wikipedia.  And no, I didn't want to "Delete" the page from my MediaWiki either (on a plus side, at least IE doesn't automatically navigate to the "delete" page when I press Alt+D), I wanted to go to the address bar.

I think that it's the worst "feature" ever to come across into browsers.

Hah, you're probably right. Although I probably wouldn't make a shortcut to something dangerous like Delete :P

And Rabbit's right, the addressbar is F6 :)

I don't know if Alt-D doesn't work in Linux (I think it does), but it's A&ddress in Windows, so the accelerator key for it is Alt-D.  :P