# Firefox 2.0 Official Release **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [October 25, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968 "2006-10-25T01:03:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/1 "2006-10-25T01:03:41Z")
Firefox 2.0 has officially been released, with ever so slight changes to the site, also: > **[Download the fastest Firefox ever](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=getfirefox-com)** > > Faster page loading, less memory usage and packed with features, the new Firefox is here. Apparently, the IE team sent them a cake ([http://www.blakeross.com/2006/10/24/firefox-2/](http://www.blakeross.com/2006/10/24/firefox-2/)). šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/2 "2006-10-25T01:10:03Z")
[http://www.blakeross.com/2006/10/24/firefox-2/](http://www.blakeross.com/2006/10/24/firefox-2/) ā€“\> [http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/](http://fredericiana.com/2006/10/24/from-redmond-with-love/) haha @ ā€œno it was not poisonedā€ ---
**Author:** ![Theros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Theros](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Theros)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/3 "2006-10-25T01:12:57Z")
Woho? When are they going to make me update? ---
**Author:** ![krilnon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/krilnon/32/34_2.png) [@krilnon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/krilnon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/4 "2006-10-25T01:15:08Z")
The ā€˜ever so slight changesā€™ to the page look nice. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/5 "2006-10-25T01:16:18Z")
Best. Home. Icon. EVAR! Wait, the word ā€œEVARā€ is dotted and underlined red, is this a vB feature or a FF spell-check? \*edit: nope, this is in other forums too! [COLOR=ā€œRedā€][size=5]ā¤[/size][/COLOR] ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/6 "2006-10-25T01:35:27Z")
[QUOTE=Krilnon;1984835]The ā€˜ever so slight changesā€™ to the page look nice. :)[/QUOTE] Agreed, but there seems to be some awkward padding on the bottom of the download buttonā€¦ looks like there should be another line of text. ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/7 "2006-10-25T03:20:57Z")
lol, i thought it was just a faked release:) will my old themes work with this? ---
**Author:** ![PurePerception](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@PurePerception](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/PurePerception)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/8 "2006-10-25T05:18:11Z")
I just got version 2 this morning. The home icon is the first thing i noticed. Cool. The spell checker on Message Boxes are quite useful. I just donā€™t like that they removed the close button on the rightmost side of the tabs bar. I got used to closing tabs from there. Now, i have to close it from the tab itself. Iā€™ll get used to it. ---
**Author:** ![NANO3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c2a13f/32.png) [@NANO3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NANO3)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/9 "2006-10-25T05:21:33Z")
itā€™s really slowed down my internet speeds. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![pablosci](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/pablosci/32/1321_2.png) [@pablosci](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pablosci)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/10 "2006-10-25T05:26:59Z")
dumb questions: the skins and plugings that i have installed on my actual version (1.5.0.7) works with the v2? or i have to wait for the author to update it? ---
**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 7:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/11 "2006-10-25T07:58:39Z")
downloaded, and it works pretty well. great features too. i noticed you cpuld rearrange tabs:) themes wonā€™t work sadly:( ---
**Author:** ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/12 "2006-10-25T10:54:55Z")
Im gonna get this later on today. Hopefully it work better. I have finally given up in Opera and rerturned to FF ---
**Author:** ![skOOb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@skOOb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/skOOb)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/13 "2006-10-25T13:01:19Z")
> [@pablosci;1984959](#): > > dumb questions: the skins and plugings that i have installed on my actual version (1.5.0.7) works with the v2? or i have to wait for the author to update it? yea I have my current FF decked out with a few plugins and want to make sure they all work before I get 2.0 on here. anyone? ---
**Author:** ![danulf](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/danulf/32/555_2.png) [@danulf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/danulf)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/14 "2006-10-25T14:14:23Z")
meh\*\*.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![foodpk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/0ea827/32.png) [@foodpk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foodpk)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/15 "2006-10-25T17:01:06Z")
meh. ---
**Author:** ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/16 "2006-10-25T17:45:39Z")
the default GUI: not much of a differnce but doesnt matter cause of themes the power: Pages for me load faster by a significant amount of time, I can notice it on this machine as this one has a slow internet but this actually runs way faster than IE, themes: Well my old theme works on this one, the Noia 2.0 Extreme. add-ons not tried any, I never ever use them ---
**Author:** ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/17 "2006-10-25T19:43:55Z")
[QUOTE=hybrid101;1985017]i noticed you cpuld rearrange tabs[/QUOTE]lol not a new feature ---
**Author:** ![Phat7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6de8d8/32.png) [@Phat7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Phat7)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/18 "2006-10-25T20:18:47Z")
I donā€™t think FF 1.5 had the tab-rearranging feature, it came with the Tabbrowser extension. Anyway, the biggest (I mean the BIGGEST) improvement for me is the memory usage. 2.0 does not hog my memory anymore. While 1.5 was going up to 200 MB at times, this one uses only 80 MB. And also all of my extensions worked fine. ---
**Author:** ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/19 "2006-10-25T20:20:26Z")
Really? Thats weird, I always dragged my tabs around :h:. ---
**Author:** ![Phat7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6de8d8/32.png) [@Phat7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Phat7)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968/20 "2006-10-25T20:49:36Z")
My bad - that feature did come with one of the latest updates before 2.0. [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-2-0-official-release/204968.md?page=2)