Firefox 2.0 Second Beta Released

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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