Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Released
by DJ Neawedde | 22nd September 2006
Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 is now available for download. New features and changes in this milestone include:
- A new theme that updates Firefox’s familiar interface
- Built in Phishing Protection
- Enhanced search engine management and search suggestions
- Better tabbed browsing, ability to re-open recently closed tabs
- Resume 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 sites offering mini-summaries
- New Add-ons manager that simplifies management of extensions
- Support for JavaScript 1.7
- Extended search plugin format
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October 22nd, 2006 at 5:24 am
Please add firefox cookies/bad web sites immunization in next version!
Firefox 2 cannot reject third party cookies!!!!!!!!
November 17th, 2006 at 4:33 pm