Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 7th Oct 2006 18:21 UTC, submitted by Y2J
"Firefox 2 Release Candidate 2 is a preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for download to Web application developers, our testing community and users who want to get a sneak peek at the next version of Firefox. Please note that at this time, users should not expect all of their extensions, plugins and themes from previous versions of Firefox to work properly." Update: A guide on how to make old extensions work or port over to 2.0.
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Someone who was offended, I guess. Getting modded down is something you have to expect if you point out flaws in peoples' favorite things - Firefox, Linux, whatever.
For what it's worth, Opera is actually rather bloated on Linux, the Linux version uses QT which makes it a 15 MB download. Unless you're using KDE, in which case you've already got a good (if not as featureful) browser. The GUI is also fairly sluggish on Linux - not sure why that is, QT isn't what I'd call slow. Startup speeds are better than for Firefox though, and the memory usage is about the same, which is something considering all the features.
(I'm not exactly a huge fan of Opera - some things about it have always acted a bit funny for me - but I really appreciate that someone out there is actually putting in some effort to make a good multiplatform browser, be it proprietary or otherwise.)