The Firefox developers are not sitting on their laurels and watch Internet Explorer 7 grab their market share. They’ve got the new Firefox 2 Beta 1 out and its a developer preview made available for testing purposes only. Firefox 2 Beta 1 is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.x should not use Firefox 2 Beta 1 and expect all of their extensions and plugins to work properly. I’d like to try this preview out as I love the ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs and that’s already been a feature on my other Avant Browser for quite some time now.
New features on Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Developer Preview requiring feedback include:
- Built in Phishing Protection
- Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com
- Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
- Ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs
- Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
- Inline spell checking in text boxes
- Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
- New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
- Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
- New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes
- New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
- Support for JavaScript 1.7
- Support for client-side session and persistent storage
- Extended search plugin format
- Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
- Support for SVG text using svg:textPath
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 is out ! source
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