Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 is up for download

O.k. some easy differences one can easily see. The help has a report phishing website alongwith the usual broken website. For people who'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 u'r bank details/credit card details. An e.g. of e-mail fraud/phishing can be found here . I'm sure the spam box has lots of these :bleh:
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. Haven't really tested it or taken through paces will do so in near-term. Just kinda first looks thing. :)
 
stable so far..beta 1 is a lil faster than alpha 3, as expected

haven't noticed any other diff. apart frm the ones mentioned by shirish.
 
obviously, the alpha3 ones code weren'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 :)

2. Also most of the times when u'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 :)

3. 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 I'm not really lookin at stuff. :)
 
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....s/rc1/firefox-2.0b1.en-US.win32.installer.exe
Click the link to download.

The browser wars are heating up, as the first beta of Firefox 2.0 is due on Tuesday July 11th, and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is now on it's third beta release.
Firefox fans, and browser junkies have an opportunity to get a jump on Tuesday's beta, as a public "release candidate" has been posted on the Mozilla FTP site. This nightly build is finally feature complete, although it's still not completely ready for mass consumption.
Reports from early testers compliment two of the significant new features: an integrated spell checker, and an anti-phishing tool. The spell-checker promises to make blog and forum postings more lucid. The phishing filter (an integrated component of IE 7.0 as well) works with locally stored lists of bad sites, along with Google's site listing, and possibly others down the road.

The rest of the interface stays mostly the same, unlike the more radical changes in IE 7.0. Firefox 2.0 does include a horizontal scrolling capability for tabs, and an ability to close a tab directly from within the tab itself. The Options dialog has been reworked to include a horizontal, tabbed based interface, and numerous changes have been made under the hood.

This new version of Firefox also offers relief for early adopters of intel-based macintosh hardware. One tester on Digg was overjoyed, saying "Oh thank you lord, Firefox finally work correctly on my Mac Mini!"

You can download the Windows release candidate of Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 directly, along with Mac and Linux versions, but beware. It will overwrite your existing themes, and render existing extensions unusable. A "portable" version of Firefox 2.0 that will let you try without affecting your existing Firefox setup has also been made available.

Stay tuned, we'll have a detailed preview of beta 1 of Firefox Version 2.0 posted soon
Firefox Version 2.0 Beta Candidate Released
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Anyone tried it yet ??? I'm still waiting for 1.5.0.5 ... was thinking of avoiding v2.0 till its first final release ... but if this is good ... i'm in for testing ...
 
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 it's in FF then what happens when one upgrades & if it's going to sit in the profile then the profile becomes bloated.
 
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 :)
 
two more things that i'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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