Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 is up for download

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Hi all,
FF 2.0b1 is up for download. Get it here
Enjoy :slight_smile:

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thanks for the update mate !!

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thanx shirish..dloading now :slight_smile:

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Thanks ā€¦ downloadedā€¦ now waiting for someone to install and run and report on this Browser. :slight_smile:

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O.k. some easy differences one can easily see. The help has a report phishing website alongwith the usual broken website. For people whoā€™re unaware/noobs phishing websites are sites which look & imitate very much like the original ones but are created for doing fraud to either get sensitive info. or to get uā€™r bank details/credit card details. An e.g. of e-mail fraud/phishing can be found [here](Image - Wikipedia :face_with_tongue: hishingTrustedBank.png) . Iā€™m sure the spam box has lots of these :face_with_tongue:
The second one is RSS subscriptions which is much more integrated. In Bookmarks >Subscribe to the page is a good addition. Then the history itself has
a recently closed tabs which is pretty handy. Then lots of things behind the scenes in rendering & all. I expect more SVG eye-candy to be supported. Havenā€™t really tested it or taken through paces will do so in near-term. Just kinda first looks thing. :slight_smile:

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stable so far..beta 1 is a lil faster than alpha 3, as expected

havenā€™t noticed any other diff. apart frm the ones mentioned by shirish.

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obviously, the alpha3 ones code werenā€™t optimized as it had to include the feature-list while the beta ones will be more for bug-fixing to make it more stable , any last minute security holes or some bugs which might come up.

1.One of the other things u might see is tht the addons find update responds more stable as well as quicker. This is very nice :slight_smile:

  1. Also most of the times when uā€™re opening a browser & have been on net for some time/moments there are times when while opening the browser itself, the browser tells that there are updates to the addons/extensions & asks if u want to install them. It installs them first & then the browser opens with the new addons/extensions. Another useful feature :slight_smile:

  2. After restarting it does remember the web-pages as well as no. of tabs tht were opened.
    Obviously, from 1.5 this is a very big jump & this is when Iā€™m not really lookin at stuff. :slight_smile:

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http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/bonecho-beta1-candidates/rc1/firefox-2.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Click the link to download.

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Anyone tried it yet ??? Iā€™m still waiting for 1.5.0.5 ā€¦ was thinking of avoiding v2.0 till its first final release ā€¦ but if this is good ā€¦ iā€™m in for testing ā€¦

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Lastly, the integrated spell-checker. Now this one is the interesting one. I would be poking around to see where it (the database) actually resides for if itā€™s in FF then what happens when one upgrades & if itā€™s going to sit in the profile then the profile becomes bloated.

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merged similar threads

and moved to apps section.

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thnx quickfire, btw the spell-checker dictionary is in appdir/components while there is supposed to be a persdict.dat in the profile directory. So impressed by what the guys hv achieved to date :slight_smile:

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two more things that iā€™ve noticed

  1. scroll buttons appear on both sides as the number of open tabs increases. it no longer resizes the tabs after a certain size.

  2. it can automatically download and install important security updates. Also keeps an update history.

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thanksā€¦ will download