UPDATED: Firefox 2 release coverage
As expected, the Firefox 2 release expected for later today is making the rounds in all major media outlets. Here's a pick I'll be updating:
Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Foundation's CEO, on Firefox 2 release
Read/Write Web: Firefox 2 Launch: Interview With Chris Beard, Mozilla VP Products
BBC: Firefox browser for web 2.0 age
Buzz Out Loud Podcast, episode 339: Listen it here at mozilla links podcast player (see sidebar).
And we have this pearl at ZDNet's Internet Explorer vs Firefox article: "In the default view for both browsers, you'll notice a long gray bar in Firefox 2.0 that doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than to waste screen space." As a reader points out to the author: "You must be new on this planet." Seriously, it must be a new empty toolbar or the bookmarks toolbar without any bookmark on it. Either way it is not Firefox 2 default view.
CNet News.com: With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed
Desktop Linux: Firefox 2.0 arrives: let the parties begin!
eWeek: Firefox 2.0 Balances Innovation with Ease of Use
Wired: The Firefox Has Landed
Washington Post: Mozilla Releases Firefox 2.0
Comments
Lemi4 aka. fERDI:)
The author, George Ou, claims that he is trying to simulate the experience of a casual user’s first encounter with a fresh FFx2 install.
I suppose said simulated user has no bookmarks within the Links folder of his IE favorites. Some replies at said ZDNet article responds that FFx imports all their IE bookmarks and puts the contents of the Links folder in FFx’s bookmarks toolbar.
An interesting suggestion from one of the article’s reader is that should the bookmarks toolbar be empty, a text that says “drag links to this toolbar” or somesuch. Seems like an interesting idea.
It also seems not hard to imagine that Mr. Ou is intentionally creating controversy and grief in order to gain readership. Dvorak style.
I’m personally waiting for Blake’s review of IE7. Should be much better than Ou’s antagonistic partisan drivel. Its ‘reviews’ like that which highlight the weakness of media silos. Yeah, Blake should give a balanced review.
David Naylor
Yeah, that tech writer obviously isn’t very savvy at all. But I wonder why the bookmark bar didn’t contain the two standard Firefox bookmarks, if he did a clean install? Maybe he didn’t…
Anyway, I just checked how much space is taken up if you activae the “links” bar and menu bar (side by side) in IE7. Fact is, Firefox is more compact, with menu, bookmarks, navigation bar and tab bar.
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