Firefox 2.0 released
Officially due tomorrow, Firefox 2.0 final has been pushed to the file servers and can already be downloaded. Lots of new features such as a built-in spell checker, nice looking theme, microsummaries, overall speed improvements and lots of other things.
Download it for yourself and give it a try! Windows, Mac, Linux.
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Considering that it’s a 2.0 release, I didn’t think that there were that many compelling new features, though I’d be very glad if they’ve fixed its memory usage so it doesn’t take up 3.8 GB of virtual memory on my Mac.
I might just wait a few weeks until all of the extensions are revved for 2.0.
You can actually download the Nightly tester tools for Firefox, which adds the ability to make the extensions install even if they are marked as incompatible.
It often works fine, since most of the time the developer of the extension just haven’t updated the spec. for which versions it supports.
I have had Firefox 2 RC3 (which apparently is the same as the final release) running on my Linux machine for a couple of days now, and it’s just eating around 100MB of RAM.