Firefox 2 - Safe or not

[tim]

Has anyone found probs with Firefox 2? I'd like to install it but not if its a bit suspect.

Cheers

Tim

 

[mr]

In what way would it be "a bit suspect"?
Mike

 

[Colin C]

I am using it now and have had no problems

 

[Barry Burgess]

Tim I have been using it for a few weeks now and the only thing I have noticed with a link to another link you have to go file and close the TAB rather than just going back
Barry

 

[tim]

In what way would it be "a bit suspect"?

I know that Chris (waterhead 37) had a few probs with a previous update and that some new versions of any software have known clashes with other software or hardware installed.

Cheers

Tim

 

[Steve Maskery]

Tim
Never mind Firefox, have you finished that Library yet? We are well deprived of pictures!

 

[RogerS]

I'm using it (on a Mac).

The phishing site popup warning was a pleasant surprise.

There is now a separate close button on each of the tabs rather than a single button at the right..which takes a bit of getting used to.

My popup blocker doesn't always alert me when it's blocked a popup. As a result some websites don't seem to work very well (until you enable their popups...you just have to remember to temporarily unblock popups which is a bit of a pain and reload the page to see if the website works..if the information bar was consistent then you'd get the indication.).

Also I have a sense that you can unblock popups for a site but even if you remove that site from your 'un'block popup list at a later date, the site still remains unblocked (you need to be able to do this for faultfinding or checking out firefox information bar if you're sad like me )

 

[Adam]

I'm using it here at work and found it no different to previous versions. But i never made use of the tab options anyway.

Adam

 

[Pete W]

The tab issue can be changed in Options (or Preferences, whatever it's called) so you can choose whether new pages open a new window, or a new tab within the same window. Your choice.

 

[wizer]

fine here

 

[BrianD]

I have been using Firefox since v0.9.

V2 is definitely better and I have found to be very stable.

Use it and you will be surprised, :shock:

 

[Russell]

Been using firefox 2 for a good while now no problems. I run Firefox 2, zone alarm, ad-aware, avast, and spybot keeps me nice and secure and all for free.

 

[Dave S]

No problems here with v2. nor with any previous versions.

Adam - funny how we use the same software differently - for me, the tabs are one of the best features of Firefox