Firefox 2 August 31, 2006
Finally, the long-overdue bon echo is in da house… GET IT
Firefox 2 Beta 2 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 2 is intended for Web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Firefox 1.x should not use Firefox 2 Beta 2 and expect all of their extensions and plugins to work properly.
The new browser, formerly known as Bon Echo, features several improvements over the current version of Firefox (1.5.x). This time around, we get glowing buttons in the user interface, a scrollable tab bar, a close tab button on each individual tab and improved RSS subscription options. Whenever you click on an RSS feed, you can choose between adding it to a desktop reader, saving it as a Live Bookmark, or adding it to a web-based reader. Google Reader, Bloglines and MyYahoo are there by default, but you can add your own service… @
There are also some new features that were added (presumably) to directly compete with Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, the most notable ones built-in phishing protection and an integrated spell-checker for text forms. I can confirm that the spell-checker works like a charm (I’m using Beta 2 to post this review… @
- Posted in : regular folks, business people
- Author : jack mardack
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