My Review of Firfox 2.0 (Update 3)

Well I downloaded Firefox 2.0 today and started exploring the new version right away. I have to tell you though I doubt I'm going to stick with it. As cool as the new features are like anti-phishing, active spell checking, and a better RSS tools, 2.0 wasn't compatible with 12 of my extensions that are important to me. A few of these are "Colorful Tabs" (separating my many open tabs by color), "Download Embedded", and "Menu Editor" (allowing me to remove menu clutter I don't use). However some of these extensions were replaced by 2.0's built in features like "Search Engine Ordering", "Session Saver", and pieces of "Super T". Other negatives are the clutter you can't remove like the go and search buttons. 2.0 also adds a close tab button to every tab that just gets in the way and causes problems. I find myself closing more tabs by mistake than selecting them. Luckily there is an added undo close tab feature that holds it's own history. All in all I'm very unimpressed with the clutter and compatibility issues and will most likely revert back to 1.5. The poor spell checker and RSS reader just isn't enough to hook me though I do suggest it for new users. Oh, I also checked out IE7 and it's not worth your time unless you have a problem with Firefox. It's second rate garbage in comparison.

Update: I've alreay gone back to 1.5.0.7 and it's only been an hour. I view a lot of tabs at once and I just couldn't go without my tab extensions.

Update: Firefox 2.0 has not yet been officially released. (I downloaded from a mirror.) Incompatible extensions may be updated with the actual release of 2.0 solving a chunk of my problems.

Update: I found these two extensions that work with Firefox 2.0 called No Tab Close Button and No Go Buttons fixing two issues i had with 2.0.