Change is good

[da]

I finally bit the bullet and upgraded my work Windows machine from Firefox 1.5 to 2.0. I was holding off because I didn't know if it worked with my extensions (in particular: Tab Mix Plus, Session Manager, and del.icio.us). However, FF has been reminding me daily that they are no longer supporting security fixes, so I figured it's a good time to upgrade.

In case anyone else has been a fence-sitter as long as I have; c'mon in, the water's fine. FF feels much snappier (even with lots of tabs open). Pages load faster, scrolling is smoother, and I like the text box spellcheck.

On the installation it asked me once whether I wanted to replace Tab Mix Plus's session manager with Firefox's, I said "no", and everything proceeded to work just as it had, with minor aesthetic differences.

Comments

From the techno-clueless

[jeanne-d-arc.livejournal.com]

What's a security fix and why is it better not to support one?

Re: From the techno-clueless

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

They're no longer updating Firefox 1.5, because it's too old (Firefox 2 came out to replace it last October). They continued releasing updates to 1.5 to fix security holes until last month, giving people a year to upgrade.