Yep. Mozilla Firefox version 2.0 was released today.รย I’ve been running it since yesterday.รย I agree with Martin McKeay about tabs resizing vs. scrolling I think, I’m not sure yet.รย I probably won’t try the Tabbrowser Preferences plugin he mentions yet, I’ll try and get used to the new way for a while first.รย The spell check in form fields is nice, although writing this post is the first time I’ve seen it in practice.
One thing I missed at first was the del.icio.us plugin which wasn’t updated for Firefox 2.0 when I installed it, although I just checked and they appear to have released version 1.2 today with updated compatibility.รย Firefox refuses to install it however, perhaps the old version is cached?รย I’ll have to play with it, but the fact that they updated it makes me happy!
My favorite thing about 2.0? The look of the tabs and buttons look much more polished. The search function is improved, spell check I mentioned, phishing protection is good but I haven’t seen it in action yet (not likely to see it unintentionally!), RSS support slightly improved, and maybe something else I forgot.รย Oh yeah, they seem to duplicate IE7’s new features and look in nearly every important way. Which is good, in my opinion…I tried IE7 the day it came out (last week), too, and although I’m sticking with Firefox, IE7 is much improved over IE6 and compared to Firefox 1.5, I was a tad jealous!