For those of you who use the Firefox Browser, you will no doubt be interested to know that the much anticipated Firefox 2.0 second beta has now been released – with another further beta being expected in September.
If you do not have alpha or beta one already installed – (you should have been flagged about this release already, or very shortly) – and you would like to take this new release from Mozilla for a test drive, and let’s face it few wouldn’t, it can be downloaded directly from here.
These are the highlights of this new release;
- A new theme that updates Firefox’s familiar interface
- Built in Phishing Protection
- Enhanced search engine management and search suggestions for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com
- Improvements to tabbed browsing, including the ability to re-open recently closed tabs
- Firefox will resume from where you left off after a system crash or browser restart
- Better support for previewing and subscribing to Web feeds
- Inline spell checking in Web forms
- The ability to create bookmarks with “Live Titles” for Web sites that offer microsummaries
- New Add-ons manager that simplifies management of extensions and themes.
- Support for JavaScript 1.7
- Extended search plugin format
- Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
- Support for client-side session and persistent storage
- Support for SVG text using svg:textPath
- New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
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I’m not sure what half those things mean, and that makes it all the more exciting!
/runs off to download the new beta.
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I had no idea there was a new beta out and I use FireFox all the time. I’ll have to check it out.
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Well, I have been using the beta for 24hrs now (I have been at work, so not 24hrs none stop you understand), and not a single glitch. And I have to say, it does seem very fast.
Very impressed.
Shame most of my plug-ins don’t now work.
What is even stranger about this is the plug-in I miss the most tells me what the weather is where I live. Considering my monitor is just in front of a window, and so I can see exactly what the weather is (yes its raining) one wonders why I seem to have become so very dependent on this particular plug-in.
People, eh?
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