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Firefox 2.0 available
Firefox 2.0 available
Posted Oct 25, 2006 14:39 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)Parent article: Firefox 2.0 available
I've been using the betas for a month or so, seems more stable than 1.5 to me.
I do have one *major* gripe though. They moved the Connection Settings dialog (where you configure proxies) from the General tab in Preferences to the Advanced tab, then the Network sub-tab. That's insane. There's nothing "advanced" about proxy settings -- they are simply necessary for some networks. I find myself changing them a lot and talking other people through changing them.
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Firefox 2.0 available
Posted Oct 26, 2006 7:05 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]
If you have proxy auto-configuration set up for your network, then you shouldn't ever need to touch those settings. With the proxy auto-configuration turned on, firefox will try to download a http://wpad.$DOMAIN/wpad.dat file and treat it as a proxy auto-configuration file. The spec also provides for setting the proxy via DHCP data, but I don't think firefox supports that on Linux.