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Firefox 2.0 is about ready to go

by Adam Berger on Sep 23, 2006 at 03:18 AM

Firefox logoWe knew it was coming. Firefox 2 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 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

Click on for a screen shot and download information.

Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 gadgetell screen shot

You can download Firefox 2 Beta 2 builds for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux in several languages via this site. You can also track the progress to the final release here.

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