I just downloaded the new version of Firefox and so far, I’m very impressed. I was disappointed that in breaks several extensions that I use on a regular basis, including:
- Bloglines Toolkit
- Copy Plain Text
- ChromEdit
- Greasemonkey
SpellBound
None of them are deal breakers–well, SpellBound would have been but reinstalling the libraries fixed it. Living without the others will be a pain, but I’ll cope. And one of the things that will help me cope is the new del.icio.us extension! It’s awesome!
Update: Ken hipped me to two new extensions that have become indispensable as well. The first is NoScript which allows you to have Firefox only run JavaScript from whitelisted websites. The second is SessionSaver, which I can’t believe I lived without; it allows you to have your current session saved whenever Firefox is closed, and then restores that session when you restart. Awesome!
You know, I’ve been a fan of Firefox for a long time (but prefer Camino when working on a Mac).
The only complaint I have about 1.5 is that it keeps trying to install itself after it’s already done so! Everytime I start up the darn thing, it tells me it needs to restart Firefox, then proceeds to download and install 1.5 again. Grrr. This is only on one of my 3 machines, so I suppose I just have to bite the bullet and de/re-install. But Mozilla’s “upgrade” functionality could be much better.
Ever since the early days, each subsequent version would install itself separately from prior versions, and removing the prior versions would break the new one. This, while not fatal, continues to be *extremely* annoying.