--- date: "2006-09-15T17:25:35Z" title: Thoughts on Firefox 2.0b2 ---
I've switched over completely to Firefox 2.0b2. It's not out yet, but the beta is a lot faster in Linux, so I decided not to wait. What's new?
Unfortunately, Firefox 2.0 isn't all sunshine and roses. A huge number
of extensions broke. While most of the important ones (read:
Ad Block Plus), have been ported, really useful ones like
Greasemonkey haven't. There appear to be some minor quirks
with inline find. They also attached the Go button on the URL entry to
the URL entry itself; you can disable it using the Customize context
menu option any more. I found this forum post after a bit
of searching, which basically says to add the following snippet to your
userChrome.css
file:
/* don't display the annoying go button */
#go-button { display: none; }
You can disable the resizing search entry in there too. I still haven't
decided whether or not I like it. The behavior of the backspace key
changed too, although I'm not sure if that was a Firefox 2.0 change, or if my
config got munged during the upgrade. Anyway, you can switch it to go
back instead of doing nothing by setting browser.backspace_action
to 0
in
good-old about:config
.
By the way, if you can't keep all the versions of Adblock and Adblock plus straight, it's because the history of the both kind of reads like a soap opera.