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I've tried the Deer Park Alpha 2, and it had a great improvement over Firefox 1.x. The thing I like most about it is the tab-reordering feature. It's going to be included in the Beta Release. Another good thing is the updates system. You no longer have to download the whole Firefox after 1.5, just a small patch. Good news for dial-up users.
Mozilla usually doesn't set release dates, they say it's easy to have delayed schedules that would dissappoint us. I don't know why they did it this time. Maybe it's because they are confident that the dates will be right. I'm looking forward to download this release.
Edit: Ooh, I forgot. You can read more about the release dates of other betas here.
Right now I'm downloading Thunderbird 1.0.6
It looks promising.Die hard firefox users might not shift again. But some are likely to switch to IE if M$ introduces RSS and tabs in IE7. Just because they are lazy to dowload another browser. Mozilla should take that note and be a step ahead of M$ by introducing some new features. Still Firefox doesn't have the power of Opera browsers. I would like the day they make me shift to firefox from opera.
Boycott Firefox for webmasters because its very hard to use, for making sites off programs like frontpage, etc.
). Code with web standards, and they will work in all browsers.
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I hate firefox with a passion, none of the sites I makes work on it at all. All the frames are usually messed up and i can never really get anything done at all.Boycott Firefox for webmasters because its very hard to use, for making sites off programs like frontpage, etc.
The problem is that Firefox almost completely supports most of the W3C standards, such as CSS 2, while IE either doesn't support them at all or implements them very oddly. Making sites that look good on both browsers is a very frustrating and time consuming process.
BTW, will the new Firefox get rid of that annoying alert window when you can't contact a site?
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I hate firefox with a passion, none of the sites I makes work on it at all. All the frames are usually messed up and i can never really get anything done at all.As Szupie has said, Firefox completely adheres to CSS standards. Also, you have extensions for firefox such as 'launchy', 'web developer' and 'validator' which help web developers who are trying to develop standards compliant web pages. That's the reason I'm sticking to Firefox, because of the extensions and the ease of use... even though it is a bit slow at loading and uses up a whole lot of RAM (even more than IE).
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BTW, will the new Firefox get rid of that annoying alert window when you can't contact a site?You can get rid of it now itself... go here and download firetune. This has a load of optimizations for firefox and one of them happens to be getting rid of that annoying popup window when it doesn't connect to a site. There is a way to change it by typing 'about:config' in the address bar, but it's easier this way, because firetune let's you make a backup of your present firefox configuration so that you can restore it if it gets screwed by some chance.
QUOTE (abhiram)
As Szupie has said, Firefox completely adheres to CSS standards.Well, I never said it completely follows CSS... It didn't pass the Acid2 Test. That test is so hard, there are currently only 3 browsers that can pass it. I think they're Konquerer, Safari and... I don't remember the last one, but it's another Mac browser. Deer Park Alpha 2 didn't pass the test either.
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I hate firefox with a passion, none of the sites I makes work on it at all. All the frames are usually messed up and i can never really get anything done at all.Boycott Firefox for webmasters because its very hard to use, for making sites off programs like frontpage, etc.
I would advise you to dump frames. They are too old fashioned. It's better to shift to tables. But even better if you can shift to standards. Use divs and css. With frames you can get the scrolling effect. And you can do that in css. You can make the page to scroll while another element say the menu is fixed. You can do it by:
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#menu{position: fixed;
}
Sadly that is css2 which doesn't work in IE. IE is an old fashioned browser freezed in time and looks like to be struck there forever.
If you are developing web pages. Quit Frontpage and use a decent editor, a text editor if you are comfortable. And remember to check your pages in Mozilla then after it works correctly check with IE and add some hacks to tweak.
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Well, I never said it completely follows CSS... It didn't pass the Acid2 Test. That test is so hard, there are currently only 3 browsers that can pass it. I think they're Konquerer, Safari and... I don't remember the last one, but it's another Mac browser. Deer Park Alpha 2 didn't pass the test either.KHTML based browsers passed the Acid2 Test. Wow That's something new to me. Opera couldn't render that face correctly.
. The only thing is: it is a Dutch site so you Englishmen will only know the word "download"
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