Firefox 2 released a day early!

**BertRoot** · 24th October 2006

That site was really slow this morning but I was searching for something else.

Found this though - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/710 and it works a treat. Just pick what you don't want and Bobs yer uncle.

**BertRoot** · 24th October 2006

For all the Opera gestures fans have a look at this - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/12/

Might bring you away from the dark side.

**maltloaf** · 24th October 2006

im well glad to be back on ffox after a full month in opera. Doesnt seem to be a linux 2.0 yet, other than the RC's so im still on 1.5 at the moment.

**beerman** · 24th October 2006

Anyone else noticed this version hogs the CPU when loading a webpage?

I'm running it on a celeron 2.4ghz so don't expect much performance but taking 80-95% of my cpu when a page loads is a bit much.

I'm too much of a cheapskate to upgrade my PC so back to 1.5 I think.

**marcode** · 25th October 2006

heh.. ms sent the firefox team a cake apparently..

**jcat** · 25th October 2006

this is useful to get some extensions to work in firefox 2

http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave...irefox/nightly

John

**chubblies** · 25th October 2006

Nice lil' security feature too for reported sites, lets you know its a dodgy site

Spoiler:

**CominAtcha** · 26th October 2006

Doesn't that make it one giant piece of Spyware.....?

**jcat** · 26th October 2006

depends

if you set it to check against google on every site u visit, then yes.. but by default it it has a list of files on your computer which is updated regularly, which it checks against, so im told
John

**Breamy** · 27th October 2006

working colourful tabs for firefox version 2

techie

**shitball** · 27th October 2006

what additional benefits is it oferring mate.

**Breamy** · 27th October 2006

Originally Posted by aidie67

what additional benefits is it oferring mate.

over what firefox 1.5 or ie

**Shambles** · 28th October 2006

Originally Posted by beerman

Anyone else noticed this version hogs the CPU when loading a webpage?

Have a look at some tweaks available for FF2

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/f...aks-209941.php

Fetch only what you click

Firefox has this wacky little feature that downloads pages from links it thinks you may click on pages you view, like the top result on a page of Google results. This means you use up bandwidth and CPU cycles and store history for web pages you may not have ever viewed. Creepy, eh? To stop that madness, set the network.prefetch-next key to false.

* Key: network.prefetch-next
* Modified Value: false

The above needs you to type "about:config" in the address bar, then type "prefetch" into the filter, then double-click the line showing "true" and change it to false.

**beerman** · 28th October 2006

Originally Posted by Shambles

Have a look at some tweaks available for FF2

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/f...aks-209941.php

The above needs you to type "about:config" in the address bar, then type "prefetch" into the filter, then double-click the line showing "true" and change it to false.

Cheers Shambles, that's fixed it. K+