I have been using it since this morning and overall, Firefox 2.0 preview seems to be an excellent upgrade so far. It feels much faster and very responsive.

The session restore feature was hard to find because I was looking for the phrase ‘Session Restore’ in the preferences. However, in FF 2.0 you simply have to set the “When Firefox Starts” combo-box to “Show my windows and tabs from last time”.

Small suggestion: Upon first install pop-up the usual ‘You’re about to close all tabs’ dialog box when the user exits, with a check box that says: ‘Restore my tabs next time I launch Firefox’.

Also, I like the per-tab close buttons that are similar to having the Tab Mix Plus extension installed on top of Firefox 1.5.x, however I miss the ‘Close Current Tab’ button at the fixed position on the right hand side as it made it very easy to ‘muscle-memorize’ the location. Now I have to think (god forbid) to close the current tab, especially to make sure I don’t accidentally close another tab. Additionally, I miss the close-tab button on the tabs that are not in focus.

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