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Sunday, July 09, 2006 2:42 AM PT Posted by Harry McCracken
Firefox 2.0 Beta is Available
I'm on vacation in England at the moment, so my blogging has been sporadic for the last few days and may be so for the next week. (At the moment, I'm sitting in a coffee shop in a lovely town called Holt, using what may be the only Wi-Fi hotspot in the area.)But I did want to mention that gHacks is reporting that Mozilla has released a beta of Firefox 2.0. I'll report back once I've had a chance to try it; if you check it out, please let us know what you think.
(Remember, by the way, that the new version will likely break some or all of your favorite extensions--I just launched it, and it told me that my versions of the A9 Toolbar, the Google Toolbar, and Greasemonkey won't work.)
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Extensions are deactivated based on the compatibility range defined by their authors: If an extension is specified by its author only to be compatible with 1.x then Firefox will deactivate it in 2.x, simply because the author said so, not because it won?t work. 90% of all extensions actually do work once the compatibility status has been updated.
You can either do this manually or use the ?Nightly tester Tool? ( https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/958/ ) which adds a ?Make compatible? option to the Addon manager.
I was under the impression that this specific build right now, is the RC for Beta 1. And as percy also pointed out, the official Beta 1 build will be out on the 11th.
VERSION TRACKER.COM POSTED A MOZILLA FIREFOX
1.5.0.5CR3 ON SUNDAY JULY 9,2006. I SEARCHED FOR INFOMATION REGARDING THIS BROWSER UPDATE BUT ONLY GOT CONNECTED TO A CHINESE
WEBSITE,TRIED TO TRANSLATE VIA YAHOO LAUNGUAGE TRANSLATOR BUT ONLY GOT A NONE VALID ULR.IT IS AN EDITOR'S CHOICE DOWNLOAD VIA VERSION TRACKER BUT EVEN MOZILLA'S WEB CONTAINED NO INFO. MAYBE SOME ONE CAN FIND OUT?
Please do not post in "ALL CAPS"
Thank You
"ALL CAPS" duely noted!!!
@ Hans Schmucker:
As an extension author, Just a small correction regarding "... simply because the author said so ...":
This is actually forced by update.mozilla.org (UMO) admins. They will forbid uploading of an extension which states application versions compatibility which are higher than what's currently released (i.e. if the extension states compatibility with Firefox 3.0 then it will be rejected by UMO).
This has been the subject of many discussions between extension developers (which nearly 100% support unlimited extensions) and UMO staff which doesn't want an official mozilla site allowing downloads of extensions that might break with future versions of Firefox (/mozilla/thunderbirdetc). So far, UMO staff wins.