Firefox 2 was released last Tuesday to a flurry of internet excitement - perhaps more than the IE7 release the week before.
And the download numbers prove it. Microsoft was pleased in announcing three million downloads in four days. Now, this is not “forced” download numbers - it is still to reach Windows Update (this will happen in a couple of weeks, most likely in the next update rollup).
Mozilla one-upped them the next day - 2 million downloads in one day.
Good work to Mozilla. Remember, no matter what browser you use, you should upgrade. If your main concern is extension compatibility with Firefox, remember that a lot of extensions have already been indicated to work with Firefox 2, and you won’t have to do anything.
A lot of extensions work out of the box anyway. Here’s how,
- Type about:config into your address bar and press Enter.
- In the Find box, type checkCompatibility.
- Double-click the lone option to read “true”.
Now it will ignore compatibility information in the extensions. Be careful though, this can break your browser!
