Firefox 2.0 – Maybe Next Week

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Michael Froomkin

OK, this is pretty impressive. Almost all of the 26 Firefox
extensions I have installed at home are already ready for 2.0. 

Only seven extensions I currently have installed are not ready.  Of these two are just frills (Shazou and Timetracker).  Spelling is built in, so
I won’t need Spellbound.

Of the other four that are not yet ready, there is one which I’ll certainly miss but can manage without (Autofill). There is really only one showstopper — TabMix Plus. And the developer of that says he needs a week or so to get it ready.  So it looks like I will only
have to wait a week or so to upgrade to 2.0.

Here’s the list of what I use with info on upgrade status
drawn from the amazing Bill’s
Big List of Firefox® 2.0 Compatible Extensions

Ready
for 2.0

Adblock
Plus
Chatzilla
CoLT
del.icio.us
Complete 1.3
Download
Statusbar 0.9.4
dragdropupload
1.5.21
EditCSS
0.3.6
ErrorZilla
Mod 0.1.1
Extended
Statusbar 1.2.5
FireFTP
0.94.4
Gmail
Space 0.5.1
Googlepedia
0.4.1
gTranslate
0.3
MR Tech
Local Install 5.3.1.1
ScrapBook
1.2.0.6
Searchbar
Autosizer 1.1.2
Video
Downloader 2.0
View
Source Chart 2.4.05
X-Ray
0.8.1

Not
(officially)
ready for 2.0

  1. Autofill
  2. Bugmenot 
  3. Shazou
  4. The functionality of Spellbound is, I gather, built in to
    2.0
  5. TabmixPlus is not
    ready yet, but should
    be ready Real Soon Now     

    I REALIZE THAT FIREFOX 2
    IS GOING TO BE RELEASE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24.
    A NEW VERSION OF TAB MIX PLUS IS GOING TO BE RELEASE SHORTLY AFTER
    THAT, IN LESS THAN A WEEK. PLEASE BE PATIENT, FOR NOW YOU CAN TRY THIS
    VERSION EARLY.
    http://tmp.garyr.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3515

  6. Timetracker
  7. Wayback (but this is somewhat obsoleted by ErrorZilla)
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One Response to Firefox 2.0 – Maybe Next Week

  1. theDonnybrook says:
    October 25, 2006 at 10:22 pm

    I installed 2.0 this afternoon. So far I am impressed, and only a couple of my extensions didn’t work. I am still waiting for well rounded, copy plain text, tabmix plus, and back is close. I am really surprised that google browser sync worked, as did the modern pinball theme (no longer updated on the mozilla website). When I installed the upgrade, all of my settings, bookmarks and tweaks transferred with it. It is a nice improvement to an already great program. Now I am just waiting for the gaim 2.0 upgrade.

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