So I finally got around to downloading the final version of Firefox 2.0 which was announced just yesterday. So far so good. Most of my favorite extensions work just fine, or are made obsolete by Firefox 2.0 which includestheir functionality natively. Below I've provided a table of some of my favorite Firefox extensions and their compatibility with 2.0.

The only two things that I did not like so far were easily solved:

1. The "Go" button can't be removed as easily as it used to be. Instead of just using the customize option on the toolbar, you have to do the following to remove the Go button:
   1. Go to about:config through the location bar. 
   2. Find the browser.urlbar.hideGoButton and simply change the value from false to true.
      
   
   
2. In Firefox 1.x, you could see how many email messages were pending for you and compose an email right from Firefox.  Firefox 2.0 has removed that, presumably to streamline the browser, but I haven't followed that discussion. No matter, there's an extension called Get Mail that restores this to Firefox 2.0.

To be safe, I completely uninstalled Firefox 1.x before installing 2.0. I don't know if this is necessary, but I thought it might be prudent to start with a clean slate. So far, I'm very happy with the new Firefox release.

My Favorite Firefox extensions

                                                                                                                                                       

ColorZilla 0.8.3.1	2.0 Compatible.
CustomizeGoogle	2.0 Compatible.
Clippings 2.5	2.0 Compatible.
del.icio.us 1.2	2.0 Compatible.
Distrust 0.5.6	Not 2.0 compatible yet.Update: Compatible as of 11/03/2006
DOM Inspector 1.8.0.7	2.0 Compatible.
dotCOMplete 1.4.1	2.0 Compatible.
eBay Blog This 0.9	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :(
ErrorZilla Mod 0.1.1	2.0 Compatible.
Flashblock 1.5.2	2.0 Compatible.
FoxyTunes 2.0.4	2.0 Compatible.
Get Mail	2.0 Compatible.
Google Calendar Notifier 2.5	2.0 Compatible.
Google Toolbar for Firefox 2.1.20060807W	2.0 Compatible.
HTML Validator	2.0 Compatible.
IE Tab 1.1.1.4	2.0 Compatible.
InfoLister 0.9f	2.0 Compatible.
JSView 1.2.1	2.0 Compatible.
LinkChecker 0.6.1	2.0 Compatible.
LinkedIn Companion for Firefox 3.0.0	2.0 Compatible.
LoremIpsum Content Generator 0.4.2	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :( Update: Compatible as of 11/27/2006
Palette Grabber 0.3.0	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :( Update: Compatible as of 12/13/2006
RenameTabs 0.2	2.0 Compatible.
SearchPluginHacks 0.1.3	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :( but not really necessary because 2.0 has the same functionality.
SessionSaver .2 0.2.1.031	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :( but not really necessary because 2.0 has the same functionality.
Sidebar on Right 0.3	2.0 Compatible.
Slim Extension List 0.3.1	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :(
Stop-or-Reload Button 0.2	Not 2.0 compatible yet.Update: Compatible as of 11/03/2006
Tab X 0.9.2	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :( but not really necessary because 2.0 has the same functionality.
Tabbrowser Preferences 1.2.8.9	2.0 Compatible.
TargetAlert 0.8.9.7	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :(
TinyUrl Creator 1.0.1	Not 2.0 compatible yet. :( Update: Compatible as of 11/27/2006
Trackmenot 0.4.2	2.0 Compatible.
View Source Chart 2.4.05	2.0 Compatible.
Web Developer 1.0.2	2.0 Compatible.

If you haven't tried Firefox yet, you owe it to yourself to try it.

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Update: I should have made two things more clear. First, I probably use more extensions that most users so the fact that some of these aren't available yet isn't a sign that Firefox 2.0 is unstable. In fact, far from it, so far it seems very robust. Second, it is not surprising that there are extensions that have not been updated yet. Firefox was only officially complete yesterday. Over the next weeks, many extension developers will no doubt be updating their extensions. Unless there is an extension you can't live without, I recommend upgrading from whatever browser you are using now, to Firefox 2.0.   

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