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OFFICIAL: Firefox 2.0 Alpha Download

This is not the tinderbox download that has been buried on numerous occasions. This is the real deal.

Installed this, and so far, so good :) No crashes even on Windoze; Session saver works. A host of other extensions don’t, yet :(

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2 Comments

  1. Chuckles

    If you use 2.0 your bookmarks will be lost in some binary SQL format, never to be seen again.

    One bad byte and they all go *poof*.

    This is a huge step backward for Firefox, we should all stop and demand our user data continue to be stored in human readable XML format!

    Posted on 25-Mar-06 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
  2. abhinav

    If you use 2.0 your bookmarks will be lost in some binary SQL format, never to be seen again.

    While 2.0 does store bookmarks in binary SQL, the original bookmarks.html file is infact intact - So you just need to copy or import it if you go back to 1.5


    This is a huge step backward for Firefox, we should all stop and demand our user data continue to be stored in human readable XML format!

    While SQL data can be retrieved, it is not better than the html/xml format. In addition, the fact that the import of bookmarks from 1.5 to 2.0 is not non-destructive is a major turn-off. Hopefully this is set right in the Beta. Remember, this is just an Alpha version of the software - not for production use! :)

    Posted on 27-Mar-06 at 10:06 am | Permalink

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