I tried to like Firefox 2.0. Really. I tried. I’m a huge fan of Firefox 1.5.
The first problem is that it doesn’t feel like a 2.0 release. There’s nothing obviously better or worse about it; all the features are new things under the hood, not normally visible to users. If I secretly swapped your old Firefox for Firefox 2.0, I doubt you’d notice.
That said, I’m still happy about getting the internal improvements like “better phishing protection”, automated search-term suggestions, session resumption, web feed awareness, and javascript 1.7. Seem like nice things to have, even if they’re not particularly compelling.
The thing is, Firefox 1.5 has crashed on me… oh, maybe twice in the last year or so. But Firefox 2.0 has crashed on me every day for a week now. I’ve given up on it for the time being. I’ll wait for 2.1 to see if the stability improves.