Yup, hot on the heals of IE7, Firefox 2 hit the street today. Sporting a swanky new… well cleaner UI and a bunch of productivity enhancements this is the browser I’ve been waiting for.

I’ve been running the beta version alongside version 1.5 for a couple of weeks now (which while a little clumsy, was no where near the pain-in-the ass multi-IE is) and I gotta say, I like it… a lot! It’s clean, it’s fast, and most importantly… it hasn’t broken anything yet!

Extensions and themes are now collectively referred to as “Add-ons” and managed through a unified control panel, and at time of writing a few have yet to be upgraded for compatibility with Firefox 2 (nothing that can’t be fixed with the use of the the Nightly Tester Tools add-on which allows you to force compatibility), but most of the main extensions work out of the box and the new UI theme is so nice that for the moment at least I don’t want to change it!

The options control panel has changed a bit too and it took a little while to find everything again but on the whole it looks like all the changes are for the good and I would certainly recommend the upgrade. So what are you waiting for? Go get it now!