Brief Hands-On Report--Mozilla Released Firefox 2 RC1 (Universal)

The first release candidate of Firefox 2 is available for download and testing from this Mozilla Web page. The release notes are on this Mozilla Web page. The are a large number of improvements from the last beta version.

Mozilla expects to release a second candidate in the first week of October and the final version before November.

We downloaded and installed Firefox 2 RC1 on our MacBook Pro with no problems and trashed our copy of Beta 2. Our favorite theme, Nautipolis was incompatible but Firefox 2 RC1 found a new version 1.6.4 that is compatible. We surfed to a number of Web sites, tried our bank's Web site and one of our Web payment sites without any problems. It seems that Firefox 2 RC1 is safe enough to try out. [Dana Baggett & Bill Fox]