Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Open Source
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.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
