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Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 released (for real)
by Jordan Running Jul 12th 2006 at 4:10PM
While various blogs and media outlets have been reporting since Monday or even earlier that the first beta release of Firefox 2.0 was out, we knew better. Those were just candidate releases, but today the browser shed its Bon Echo moniker and the real, Mozilla-sanctioned, Firefox 2 Beta 1 was released. What's new in Firefox 2? Here's the list form the official site:- 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
[Thanks, X Budd!]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Smotchberry said 10:16PM on 7-12-2006
It seems Mozilla haven't updated one of their pages yet: the link directs you to download version 1.5.04 rather than the beta 1 version.
This is the correct link: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-2.0b1&os=win&lang=en-US
This is the link they direct you to:
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.5.0.4&os=win&lang=en-US
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WedgeTalon said 10:55AM on 7-13-2006
It's about time they integrated undoing closed tabs and restoring sessions.
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Tush said 11:17AM on 7-13-2006
Agreed WedgeTalon, Opera has been doing this and I'm glad that Firefox followed.
Maybe it'll be a feature we'll see in IE7, 40 billion years from now?
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Korey said 8:55PM on 8-31-2006
there are a couple of extensions that undo closed tabs. the best is Tab Mix Plus
use it.
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