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Update 25/10/06: Now officially released - http://getfirefox.com
Update: Full version has now been released (not officially until tomorrow), however you can get it early off Mozilla's ftp: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/
Firefox 2 has been in beta and now recently Release Candidate release status, with the final release of Firefox 2 expected towards the end of the month. I've been using the 2.0 builds for a while now and thought I might go through a run through of new features/changes in Firefox2.
New Features:
New User Theme
As you can see from the screen shot above, the default user theme has changed. It's different, but looks very nice IMO
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Tabbed browsing improvements
As you can see in the screen shots above, tabbed browsing has been improved. There are now close buttons on each tab. This isn't really a big improvement though considering you can add this functionality using extensions in previous versions of Firefox and that Opera also has close buttons on tabs by default, but a step forward none the less (having it implemented natively as well decreases the chance of bugs for this functionality plus brings features to the Firefox user base that are or were unaware of what extensions could do for them). Where the tab close button use to be via default is now replaced by a tab list.
Anti phishing filter
Phishing Protection is turned on by default in Firefox 2, and works by checking the sites that you browse to against a list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated within Firefox 2 when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled. Since phishing attacks can occur very quickly, there's also an option to check the sites you browse to against an online service such as Google for more up-to-date protection. This enhanced capability can be turned on via the Security preferences panel.
How do I turn Phishing Protection protection on or off?
On Windows and Linux, go to Tools > Options ... > Security. On Mac OS X, go to Preferences > Options ... > Security.
Inline spell checking
A spell checker is now included in firefox2. Picture says all really.
Addon Manger
Both Extensions and Themes are now managed in the same window rather then being managed separately.
JavaScript 1.7 Support
JavaScript 1.7 is a language update introducing several new features, in particular generators, iterators, array comprehensions, let expressions, and destructuring assignment.
Firefox2 isn't to far off release. Most popular extensions already have a ff2 compatible version, and those that don't can be tweaked by modifying the install.rdf by renaming the extension format (.jar) to zip and changing the max version using notepad (however, depending on the functionality that the extension adds it may be broken for numerous reasons). Most user themes are starting to be ported to FF2 as well (Personally though I'm waiting on a native FF2 version of minifoxflat).
All this and more: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
Update: Full version has now been released (not officially until tomorrow), however you can get it early off Mozilla's ftp: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/win32/en-US/
Firefox 2 has been in beta and now recently Release Candidate release status, with the final release of Firefox 2 expected towards the end of the month. I've been using the 2.0 builds for a while now and thought I might go through a run through of new features/changes in Firefox2.
New Features:
New User Theme
As you can see from the screen shot above, the default user theme has changed. It's different, but looks very nice IMO
.Tabbed browsing improvements
As you can see in the screen shots above, tabbed browsing has been improved. There are now close buttons on each tab. This isn't really a big improvement though considering you can add this functionality using extensions in previous versions of Firefox and that Opera also has close buttons on tabs by default, but a step forward none the less (having it implemented natively as well decreases the chance of bugs for this functionality plus brings features to the Firefox user base that are or were unaware of what extensions could do for them). Where the tab close button use to be via default is now replaced by a tab list.
Anti phishing filter
Phishing Protection is turned on by default in Firefox 2, and works by checking the sites that you browse to against a list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated within Firefox 2 when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled. Since phishing attacks can occur very quickly, there's also an option to check the sites you browse to against an online service such as Google for more up-to-date protection. This enhanced capability can be turned on via the Security preferences panel.
How do I turn Phishing Protection protection on or off?
On Windows and Linux, go to Tools > Options ... > Security. On Mac OS X, go to Preferences > Options ... > Security.
Inline spell checking
A spell checker is now included in firefox2. Picture says all really
.Addon Manger
Both Extensions and Themes are now managed in the same window rather then being managed separately.
JavaScript 1.7 Support
JavaScript 1.7 is a language update introducing several new features, in particular generators, iterators, array comprehensions, let expressions, and destructuring assignment.
Firefox2 isn't to far off release. Most popular extensions already have a ff2 compatible version, and those that don't can be tweaked by modifying the install.rdf by renaming the extension format (.jar) to zip and changing the max version using notepad (however, depending on the functionality that the extension adds it may be broken for numerous reasons). Most user themes are starting to be ported to FF2 as well (Personally though I'm waiting on a native FF2 version of minifoxflat).
All this and more: http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
