Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1 Release
July 13, 2006
Firefox 2 Beta 1 is a preview release of the new generation Firefox browser. It is available for testing purposes only. Report bugs to Bugzilla and give them your feedback with their feedback form.
They invite web application developers and community to play around with and give them feedback on changes in this development Milestone:
- 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
Download Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (rc3) for Windows - 5.4 MB
Download Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (rc3) for MacOS - 17 MB
Download Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (rc3) for Linux - 8.9 MB
Homepage - http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
