Firefox 2 Beta 2 released

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Firefox 2 Beta 2 released

by Jordan Running Aug 31st 2006

The second beta of Firefox 2 is now available for download from Mozilla. There's a surprising number of changes since beta 1. Among them you'll find an updated default theme, phishing protection, keyword suggestions in the Search box, a new search engine manager, microsummaries for dynamically-updating bookmark titles, a new Windows installer, and more. To quote Mozilla, "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." I've been happily using Beta 1 for a few weeks, but have had to tolerate occasional crashes, YMMV and all that. You can read more at Mozilla's Firefox 2 Beta 2 release notes page.

Oh, and since everyone always asks: No, your old extensions won't work with Firefox 2--out of the box. But you can make most of them work using the Nightly Tester Tools extension. There are other methods, but I've found Nightly Tester Tools to be the simplest and most reliable.

Tags: beta, beta2, browser, firefox, mozilla

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nathan said 2:26PM on 8-31-2006

You can also download the portable verson here.
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/08/31/download-the-portable-version-of-firefox-2-beta-2/

John said 2:46PM on 8-31-2006

Thanks. The portable is much better for testing out these beta's.

Taras said 9:22AM on 9-01-2006

I confirm that portable much better..

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