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A few days after Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7.0, The Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 2.0.

I installed Firefox 2.0 today and everything seems to still work. One thing I worry about when upgrading Firefox is whether the extensions will still work. I'm happy to report that all of the Firefox extensions I uses, with the exception of the Bloglines Toolkit, and LiveLines, upgraded successfully. The majority simply works with Firefox 2.0. And a few extensions needs to be upgraded to a later version. I've also noticed that they are calling them add-ons instead of extensions now.

On the Bloglines front, the loss of the Bloglines Toolkit is compensated by Firefox 2.0's updated feed subscription feature. The feed indicator in the address bar has been available for a couple of years now. In Firefox 1.x, it allows one to create a live bookmark.

In Firefox 2.0, clicking on the feed indicator button takes one to Firefox's feed subscription page. Over there, in addition to creating live bookmarks, one can also choose to subscribe to the feed on popular blog aggregator services, including Bloglines, My Yahoo, and Google Reader. I set Bloglines to be my default aggregator.

I think I still prefer a right click menu item to handle the subscriptions. Having to move the mouse pointer all the way to the address bar feels like too much work. (Not to mention the mileage it will add to my mouse-o-meter.)

On a complete unrelated note, the text-area where I'm composing this blog entry seems to be doing spell-checking for me now. Sweet.