Firefox 2.0

[masamuneehs]

it's pretty darn good. The "Session Restore" function is pretty good, and the spellchecker will help many people, but I prefer not to rely on that too much...

I think I'll play around with the new Firefox from time to time, but for now I'm sticking with Opera. Good tabbing system, Session Restore AND Session Saving, and its Mouse Shortcuts totally make the Back and standard interface buttons a thing of the past.

edit - and for chaos' question

Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab.

[Stoopider]

I"m running on a Intel Celeron 1.4ghz lappie with 256DDR ram. Do you think my lappie would run well on it?

I struggle hellalot on the latest IE. Hence I'm still using the old firefox.

[kAi]

Just updated to 2.0, and it's nice that all my extensions still work.

[Yukimura]

Nice, they made the Session Manager plug in into a standard. Guess that makes me a trend setter since I've been using it for a few months already. I don't like the tab scroll bar so much though, I hope I can disable that somehow.

EDIT: Upon install I am pleased that most of my extensions that no longer work were the ones that were integrated into the new incarnation (Session Manager, spell check, and SearchPluginHacks). Reducing the size of the buttons is also a plus since I can cram even more on!

[Zati]

Just got it and its great improvement from last version. Glad my extensions still work and Session Restore is really nice.

[Yukimura]

Session Restore is okay, but the Session Manager plugin operates much better than the new embedded features. Fourtunately I was able to 'hack' the old plugin to work with FF2 though the author has said he will no longer work on the plugin, and never released a 2.0 update.

[complich8]

as for the close buttons Chaoskiddo commented on, I personally hate that model because of my browsing pattern. I tend to do breadth-first-search traversals of sites (forums and whatnot), or open large numbers of tabs at once, and then read the site node and close the tab. With per-tab close buttons, that ends up being a hunt for precisely which tab I've got open, in order to close it. In fact, that's the main reason I never really took to Opera.

But that's ok. About:config lets you change that behavior. browser.tabs.closebuttons = 3 sends it to the old way that I'm used to... good times.