{"id":9243,"date":"2006-10-10T06:43:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T06:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2006-10-10T06:43:21","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T06:43:21","slug":"review-of-firefox-2-rc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9243","title":{"rendered":"Review of Firefox 2 RC2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a fairly in-depth <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/reviews\/apps\/firefox2-rc2.ars\/1\" target=\"new\">review<\/a> of Firefox 2.0 RC2 (as in &#8220;Release Candidate 2&#8221;). They like it well enough, but see it more as an incremental improvement over 1.5x. That led them to ask:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Is the 2.0 designation deserved?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> To which they replied:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I suppose that depends on your perspective. At the risk of veering into a largely irrelevant philosophical rumination on the ontological significance of version numbers, I feel inclined to point out that the implications of version numbers vary greatly between various open source projects. In some cases, there is a well-established nomenclature and version numbers can be used to infer all sorts of useful things about the nature and status of a build. In other cases, it may simply be an arbitrary value selected for the sole purpose of making it possible to distinguish between builds. For Firefox, it doesn&#8217;t seem like there is a fully consistent version numbering model yet. Rather than expressing disappointment about the lack of new features in the upcoming 2.0 release, users should remember that Firefox release numbers aren&#8217;t always going to be a helpful medium for establishing expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Read the full review <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/reviews\/apps\/firefox2-rc2.ars\/1\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> BTW, they also think, after banging on it quite a bit, that RC2 is stable enough for regular use. Release Notes and downloading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/2.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\"><br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ars Technica has a fairly in-depth review of Firefox 2.0 RC2 (as in &#8220;Release Candidate 2&#8221;). They like it well enough, but see it more as an incremental improvement over 1.5x. That led them to ask: &#8220;Is the 2.0 designation deserved?&#8221; To which they replied: &#8220;I suppose that depends on your perspective. At the risk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9243\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review of Firefox 2 RC2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}