Swimmer Posted March 19, 2006 CID Share Posted March 19, 2006 the release date has been set for this coming friday for the first public release of firefox 2... this is still an alpha product so it will not be stable. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2/StatusMeetings/2006-03-14#PRD_Review_.2F_Sanity_Check Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted March 19, 2006 CID Share Posted March 19, 2006 Nice! cant wait, thanks for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted March 19, 2006 CID Share Posted March 19, 2006 cool is there any print screens ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S7R1D3R Posted March 19, 2006 CID Share Posted March 19, 2006 thats cool been waiting for something new from Mozilla. and here it is! super nice thanks for the news on firefox sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted March 19, 2006 CID Share Posted March 19, 2006 nice find swimmer. can't wait to test it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dilatedpeoples28 Posted March 19, 2006 CID Share Posted March 19, 2006 i think its supposed to be done around the holiday season. dont think this alpha is gonna be anything worth trying at this stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 19, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 19, 2006 yeah alpha 1 is going to be extremely unstable... but they move pretty quick once it is out to fix bugs and get the next build out.. I remember when 1.5 was just starting.. there were huge memory leaks.. by RC1 everything was pretty stable and you could use it as a full time browser.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 20, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 If you cant wait til Friday for the offical release.. NOTE: I know it says Tuesday.. but they changed their meeting notes last week and now it says Friday.. http://www.cybernetnews.com/?p=411 <-read first http://www.cybernetnews.com/?p=410 screen shots: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=597&slide=44 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted March 20, 2006 CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 Thanks for that Swimmer... Did a test with both 1.5 and the "unofficial" 2.0 For the Download test: 1.5: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 723 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Download Speed is:: 88 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/20 - 1:03pm Bottom Line:: 13X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 11.64 sec Tested from a 386 kB file and took 4.375 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 14.48 % of your hosts average (verizon.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-IJQFTVU5Y ________________________________________________________________________________ 2.0: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 720 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Download Speed is:: 88 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/20 - 1:16pm Bottom Line:: 13X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 11.64 sec Tested from a 386 kB file and took 4.391 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20060317 Firefox/2.0a1 Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 14.42 % of your hosts average (verizon.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-EL3RNPS2U :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 720 Kbps about 0.7 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Download Speed is:: 88 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/20 - 1:16pm Bottom Line:: 13X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 11.64 sec Tested from a 386 kB file and took 4.391 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20060317 Firefox/2.0a1 Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 14.42 % of your hosts average (verizon.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-EL3RNPS2U The Winner: 1.5 (for now) ________________________________________________________________________________ And now for the upload: 1.5: :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 135 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Upload Speed is:: 16 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/20 - 1:18pm Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 64 sec Tested from a 386 kB file and took 23.49024 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 20.3 % of your hosts average (verizon.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-AX2RSC6GZ ____________________________________________________________________________ 2.0: :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 128 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB) Upload Speed is:: 16 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (main) Test Time:: 2006/03/20 - 1:21pm Bottom Line:: 2X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 64 sec Tested from a 386 kB file and took 24.64512 seconds to complete Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1. Gecko/20060317 Firefox/2.0a1 Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 19.25 % of your hosts average (verizon.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-F1ITY8GAM The Winner: Again 1.5 (for now) ________________________________________________________________________ This is still alpha so MANY things will be changed, faster browsing speeds etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted March 20, 2006 CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 from the screenshots it doesnt look like a massive change is there somethign i am missing out ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biker9075 Posted March 20, 2006 CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 Found this on one of the Firefox pages: Theme of Firefox 2 Firefox 2 will aim to build on the success of Firefox by addressing issues related to the problem of managing the vast amounts of information available on the Internet. Our goal is to provide a browser that helps users manage and organize their online information channels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted March 20, 2006 Author CID Share Posted March 20, 2006 from the screenshots it doesnt look like a massive change is there somethign i am missing out ? I think they want to work out the bugs first before moving to how it looks.. remember this is Alpha1... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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