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Is there any reason they're developing 3.x and 2.x simultaneously?

The automagic updater doesn't show 2.0 available yet.  I think I'll hold off.

SIGH

before going around clicking random download links please read this:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/preed/20 … lease.html

I downloaded 2.0 and it doesn't work at all.  There's a big square that covers most of the window, shoving the scroll bar all the way to the left.

I just double-checked... it's doing the same damn thing on my MacBook Pro. 

mahakali wrote:

Is there any reason they're developing 3.x and 2.x simultaneously?

(Partial?) Code branch?

arkayn wrote:

Tabbrowser preferences has not worked on any build of 2.0 that I have seen.

It thought that it worked, but only succeeded in ruining any usability that 2.0 had.  Remove it, and FF works again.

iopossum wrote:

mahakali wrote:

Is there any reason they're developing 3.x and 2.x simultaneously?

For the same reason they were working on 2.x and 1.x simultaneously.  Ultimately, there is an overarching plan of features, some of which get slated for 2.0, some of which are too drasitc or foundational to make it into the current version, and are thus pushed to the next.

Also, if you just focus on one version, you wind up putting off ever getting the next version off the ground and therefore put off implementing any huge new features. You wind up just making .1 upgrades for much longer, and then when a new competing product comes out you have to rush to start and finish one that's better.

In short, makes the whole thing much easier.

A lot of myspace themes seem to look like complete smurf in FireFox.
Then I fire up IE in Wine - and realize they just look like complete smurf on any browser ...

Tabbrowser Preferences 1.3.0 now works on Firefox 2.0

Its OK, but I prefer Tab Mix Plus (which doesn't yet) as it adds some of the more obvious tab features - like allowing a Bookmark to directly open a new tab.  Not sure why Firefox (and for that matter, Safari and IE7) have such rudimentary controls of their tabs as their default...

Shadowless wrote:

iopossum wrote:

mahakali wrote:

Is there any reason they're developing 3.x and 2.x simultaneously?

For the same reason they were working on 2.x and 1.x simultaneously.  Ultimately, there is an overarching plan of features, some of which get slated for 2.0, some of which are too drasitc or foundational to make it into the current version, and are thus pushed to the next.

Also, if you just focus on one version, you wind up putting off ever getting the next version off the ground and therefore put off implementing any huge new features. You wind up just making .1 upgrades for much longer, and then when a new competing product comes out you have to rush to start and finish one that's better.

In short, makes the whole thing much easier.

Well, it makes more sense now. But not when they were in the middle of 1.5.6. They were working on all three, 1.5.6 & 2.x and 3.x.

Anyone else can't get Flash to work propoerly in Firefox 2.0? It works in the other 3 browsers I've tried