Sherman Boyd

So the Firefox 2.0 upgrade was what, in my mind, a major software upgrade should be. First off I barely noticed any changes whatsoever. It’s a soft and silent upgrade over the old Firefox. Some software upgrades have to move everything around in each upgrade, just to prove that they are making big changes. I’m not mentioning any names, MICROSOFT! This Firefox upgrade was a pleasure, with no surprises. After using it for a while I did notice a couple of things:

• Stability: The old Firefox tended to crash every once in a while, especially when I had a bajillion tabs open. Firefox 2.0 deals well with a bajillion tabs. It’s not crashing and the performance seems better.
• Bookmarks: You can right click on the bookmarks menu to add a bookmark folder or separator. Drag and drop to reorganize. Hooray. In the old version you had to open the “Organize Bookmarks” tool to, ah, organize your bookmarks.
• Spellcheck: I’m using it right now! Firefox spell checks anything you type into a text box. Apparently “Spellcheck” and “bajillion” apparently isn’t in the dictionary. A little right click action corrects that.

Hooray; Firefox 2.0 installed nicely on my OS X laptop. Thanks a lot Firefox team!