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17 March 2006 9 Comments

Firefox 2.0 Alpha- Take some from the oven

That’s right, Firefox 2.0, and that’s also right, it’s still in the oven.

Before you go downloading and installing it, I’d like to remind you of a couple different things:

1. Probably just about all of your extensions will cease to work.
2. Your computer will likely crash constantly.
3. Your browser will have a rediculous amound of problems. Pages won’t display, it won’t load, random crashes, etc.

Still game? here are the download links:

Windows EXE – firefox-2.0a1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Windows ZIP – firefox-2.0a1.en-US.win32.zip
Mac – firefox-2.0a1.en-US.mac.dmg
Linux – firefox-2.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz
Linux – firefox-2.0a1.en-US.linux-i686.tar.gz

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Here’s what I noticed:

1. Not much is different, really. I hardly see any visual changes, and I had heard there would be tons in the 2.0 release. You must remember, though, that this is not a feature-complete alpha, so I have a feeling the changes thus far are mostly ones you can’t see.

2. It’s really fast. Pages load really, really fast for me. Probably a good second faster. At least.

3. Stuff works. March Madness on Demand wasn’t working in firefox, which had me pretty ticked off, but it works like a charm in this one.

4. The menus are a bit different. Nothing drastic, but the layout and contents of the menu has changed a wee bit.

All in all, it’s nothing that will flip the world upside down, but I quite like it, and I think I might be keeping it. Feeling brave? Give it a download

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Written by Jesse on March 17, 2006

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9 Responses to “Firefox 2.0 Alpha- Take some from the oven”

  1. Steve 19 March 2006 at 5:33 pm #

    The Tinderbox is not at all where the 2.0a1 builds comes from as the closest is http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/...

    The Tinderbox is automated hourly build machines gives Developers a quick way to see if their patch broke the builds which happens every so often when it goes red. http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Mozilla1.8/ (Yes this is the Mozilla 1.8 Branch leading to 2.0 some MONTHS from now)

    Old article on Tinderbox but still show what it is
    http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?articl...

    The 2.0.a1 is NOT out yet and it is not a public release as there is still a lot of work to be done.

    Not so bad when people jumped the gun on 1.5.0.2 (which is still not out) as there was very little changes for the 1.5.0.2 build compared to HUGE changes for 2.0a1 due to Places and other things still being worked on.

    Just because the mozilla1.8 Branch nightly builds was changed from 1.5 to 2.0a1 does not at all mean that 2.0a1 is out.

  2. Steve 19 March 2006 at 5:33 pm #

    The Tinderbox is not at all where the 2.0a1 builds comes from as the closest is http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/

    The Tinderbox is automated hourly build machines gives Developers a quick way to see if their patch broke the builds which happens every so often when it goes red. http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/Mozilla1.8/ (Yes this is the Mozilla 1.8 Branch leading to 2.0 some MONTHS from now)

    Old article on Tinderbox but still show what it is
    http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3961

    The 2.0.a1 is NOT out yet and it is not a public release as there is still a lot of work to be done.

    Not so bad when people jumped the gun on 1.5.0.2 (which is still not out) as there was very little changes for the 1.5.0.2 build compared to HUGE changes for 2.0a1 due to Places and other things still being worked on.

    Just because the mozilla1.8 Branch nightly builds was changed from 1.5 to 2.0a1 does not at all mean that 2.0a1 is out.

  3. Jesse 19 March 2006 at 11:04 pm #

    The 2.0.a1 is NOT out yet and it is not a public release

    Funny, firefox seems to disagree with you:

    http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8510/25zs.png

  4. Jesse 19 March 2006 at 11:04 pm #

    The 2.0.a1 is NOT out yet and it is not a public release

    Funny, firefox seems to disagree with you:

    http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/8510/25zs.png

  5. Steve 20 March 2006 at 7:09 pm #

    Yeah so.. nothing new for the test nightlies to change version some weeks before the actual finished release with checkins landed in between that time. I guess you have not used nightlies or followed the development much( I have used 1000+ easily, lost count) or else you would know this.

    The source that technosailor has linked to has been reported at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/200...

    The unstable Firefox Trunk has yet to have the version and name change (from 1.6a1 to 3.0a1, Deer Park Alspha to Minefield) but for example the Mozilla Thunderbird Trunk nightlies was changed from the old 1.6a1 versioning to 3.0a1 recently and yet actual Thunderbird 3.0 is not due out until mid 2007 about though by your logic TB 3.0a1 must be out now right?

  6. Steve 20 March 2006 at 7:09 pm #

    Yeah so.. nothing new for the test nightlies to change version some weeks before the actual finished release with checkins landed in between that time. I guess you have not used nightlies or followed the development much( I have used 1000+ easily, lost count) or else you would know this.

    The source that technosailor has linked to has been reported at http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2006/03/releases_1.html

    The unstable Firefox Trunk has yet to have the version and name change (from 1.6a1 to 3.0a1, Deer Park Alspha to Minefield) but for example the Mozilla Thunderbird Trunk nightlies was changed from the old 1.6a1 versioning to 3.0a1 recently and yet actual Thunderbird 3.0 is not due out until mid 2007 about though by your logic TB 3.0a1 must be out now right?

  7. James 22 March 2006 at 2:40 am #

    It is Officially out now so you can stop linking to the worst link possible as in the automated hourly Tinderboxes.

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/
    http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/...

  8. James 22 March 2006 at 2:40 am #

    It is Officially out now so you can stop linking to the worst link possible as in the automated hourly Tinderboxes.

    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/
    http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/bonecho/alpha1/


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