And another official one down! Less than a week ago Microsoft upped their browser to a 7.0 version. This time it’s the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Firefox is now a 2.0.
Yes, improved tabs, RSS discovery, looks, spell-checker for form-fields with downloadable dictionaries,… Get Firefox. If you dare.
I wonder how many extensions are borked this time. Let me tell ya in a minute…
Update 0:10: Read about it, commented, downloaded (~5MB), blogged about it, installed and blogged about it in 15 minutes flat. I’m happy.
Update 0:30: Lots of extensions are broken, as expected. In no particular order:
- Add N Edit Cookies
- Bloglines Toolkit
- Feedview (Made obsolete by the feed handling of Firefox)
- Furl Tools (Smell of abandonware)
- Google Pagerank Status
- Live HTTP Headers
- Livelines (Made obsolete by the feed handling of Firefox)
- SwitchProxy Tool (AAAAaaaaahhhhhh!!!!)
Apart from the SwitchProxy and Furl Tool those are extensions I could live without for a week or so. Now begins the ‘updated/hacked extension hunt’. *sigh*
BTW: Extensions are found under ‘Tools’ > ‘Add-ons’. It took me a little while to figure out.
Update 0:35: I had to disable the
Update 0:45: Damn it! *Mental note: Do not move your cursor to the right hand corner of Firefox. Just use the red cross on the tab itself.*
Update 6-11-06: I’ve found a hacked version of SwitchProxy for Firefox 2.
Update 11-11-06: Jeremy says his server’s been hacked. Therefore there’s no SwitchProxy update. But you can find his blog at at the mozmonkey subdomain. (The main domain is still unreachable.)
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