Firefox 2 Final relased!

[tjobo]

Right after the release of IE 7.0, and a little bit earlier than expected, and after three release candidates Firefox 2 is finally out!

To see what's new click here.

Note that not all localizations are updated yet, and some of your old extensions are probably not as well.

Select your language and download firefox 2.0 now

Okey folks.. It's released official now.

http://www.getfirefox.com

[dAbReAkA]

great.. waiting for someone to make a special (SSE or SSE2) build

http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html - it's a pity that it's not updated yet..

[silverfire]

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/2006/10/the_antirelease.html

It's not out yet. Don't download it if you guys like your FailureFox. Wait till they're ready XD.

[Ultima]

My sentiments exactly, which is why I didn't jump on the "release" either

[maku8ex]

heck why bother with the FTP, its put up on the site....& yeah looks officially & fully released to me

[Ultima]

The point of this thread was relevant when it wasn't officially announced yet. You sorta missed the boat on that.

[Firon]

hey dabreaka, I tried those builds, but I'm not sure if I notice a speed difference

[dAbReAkA]

run those tests: http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed.php

u'll notice a huge improvement..

FF2.0 - 2000+ms

FF2.0 SSE Optimized - 1200ms..

Opera 9 - 500ms

[silverfire]

Now all we need is SSE3 multithreaded Opera 9

[Firon]

I get about 1000ms with the SSE MSVC++ 2005 build. Not bad.

[maku8ex]

umm i'm kinda confused, which one would be the best? the VB 2005 one?

and what abt the MMX one?

[anoxan]

good question..I see 7 links.....lol

edit:

766ms with the SSE MSVC++ 2005 build

1405ms with the official build

neat.

[dAbReAkA]

scroll to the bottom.. tbind.exe improves startup speed (well, not that much.. it still needs several seconds..)

[grobar]

i'm using 2.0 now - just make sure that any extensions you use are compatible. I upgraded FF, went to DL my usual extensions, and found that many of them didn't work with anything 1.6 or higher.

good release overall.

[boo]

grobar, most extension do work with FF 2.0, you just need to raise the extensions max version.

Which can be done with nightly tester tool, mr tech local install and manually.

[splintax]

It was the same as RC3 anyway. As in exactly the same. You can tell by checking the hashes.

Firefox releases are always like this.