FIREFOX 2006 MAC OS X

Firefox 2006 Mac OS X

Session restoration after a browser crash. Mozilla ended support for Firefox 2 on December 18, 2008. Mac OS X 10.5 support was added Octowith version 2.0.0.8.Firefox 2.0 featured updates to tabbed browsing environment, the extensions manager, the GUI, and the find, search, and software update engines a new session restore feature inline spell checking and an anti-phishing feature which was implemented by Google as an extension, and later merged into the program itself. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.x is the final version officially supported on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98 and Windows ME, although it can run on Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.51 using tweaks. It featured Gecko 1.8.1 for the first time. The release contained many new features not found in Firefox 1.5, including improved support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and JavaScript 1.7, as well as user interface changes.On March 22, 2006, the first alpha version of Firefox 2 (Bon Echo Alpha 1) was released.

URL bar refresh (New Go button attached to the URL bar) Enhanced security and localization support for extensions. Support for client-side session and persistent storage. Search suggestions appear with search history in the search box for Google and Yahoo!. Support for SVG text using svg:textPath. New search plugin manager and add-on manager.

Within 24 hours after its release, Firefox 3 usage rose from under 1% to over 3% according to Net Applications in that time period. With support cut at the end of June, Firefox 1.5 dropped to just 2.85%.' Firefox 2 began to lose notable market share to Firefox 3. Mozilla has even sacrificed version 1.5 of its open source browser for Firefox 2.0. From just 0.69% in October 2006, Firefox 2.0 is now accounting for 11.07% of the market. Internet Explorer 7 had climbed to 3.18%, while Firefox 2.0 was at 0.69%.' A Softpedia article, however, noted in July 2007 that 'Firefox 2.0 has been also expanding its share constantly in spite of IE7.

The latter can be resource-intensive with the older core, and users stuck with it should use NoScript to avoid problems with scripts that take too long to process (at the cost of losing some or all site features beyond basic functionality).Services with large user bases have relegated browsers with the Gecko 1.8.1 rendering engine to using lightweight or mobile versions of their sites, alongside recommendations to upgrade the browser while others only recommend to upgrade.Nevertheless, there is still a very large number of websites that are freely usable and navigable with Firefox 2.0 or equivalents, alone because many of them must still support other older browsers, like Internet Explorer 6 or IE7. The Gecko 1.8.1 browser core continued to receive patches for projects such as Camino, K-Meleon, and SeaMonkey, even after official Firefox releases had ceased.By 2011, the 1.8.1 core had become obsolete, as major websites dropped support for it by employing newer technologies for presentation and complex scripting. With roughly 26 months of support, only Firefox 3.6 was supported longer. In comparison, Internet Explorer 8, released on 19 March 2009, fails the Acid3 test with a score of 20/100.Firefox 2.x was end-of-lifed in December, 2008. Release compatibility Operating systemFirefox 2.0.0.13 scores 53/100 in the Acid3 test (dated 3 April 2008).

^ 'Browser War: FF2 pulls ahead of IE7 in Europe'. ^ 'Browser Versions Market Share'. Opera 9 In browser market share deathmatch'. 'IE7 and Firefox 2.0 Are Slaughtering Internet Explorer 6 - Out with the old, in with the new'. ^ a b Marius Nestor (5 February 2008). ^ 'Top 9 Desktop, Mobile, Tablet & Console Browsers on Aug 2021'.

The latest legacy NoScript version for Firefox 2.0 and SeaMonkey 1.1 is 1. We're going to begin phasing out our support, starting with Google Docs and Google Sites. 'Google joins the 'kill-IE6' campaign'.

Firefox For Mac 2006