I recently upgraded to the new Firefox 2.0 browser and found it really great. The built-in spellchecker (for when you type stuff in text boxes) has saved my bacon a couple of times already (you can even download a Canadian dictionary). Also, the "restore previous session" function has been a major lifesaver, especially since I started having Firefox freeze up on me fairly regularly.

I am doing quite a lot of web development at the moment, and use a webserver that runs on my laptop to test out my designs. My laptop also has a fancy NVidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics card in it, which allows me to have multiple desktops to work on. In theory this is a great thing, but in practice, its these extra NView functions that are killing Firefox 2.0.

I eventually figured this out after removing all extensions in Firefox 2.0, and even downgrading to Firefox 1.5.0.8. Trust me, once you've used Firefox 2.0 its tough to go back to 1.5. Now that I have disabled NView, Firefox 2.0 is once again stable and my frustration levels have dropped somewhat. I even have some of my Firefox extensions up and running again.

One new extension that I discovered is called Firebug. This is great for developers and allows things like stepping through javascript and editing the DOM. In one day it has solved a problem I was having with cookies not "sticking". It turns out that the javascript wasn't working properly and Firebug picked this up.