Firefox is an award winning preview of next generation browsing technology from mozilla.org. Firefox empowers you to accomplish your online activities faster, more safely and efficiently than any other browser, period. Built with Tab browsing, popup blocking and a number of other seamless innovations, Firefox stands out ahead.
If you aspire to be an early adopter, here's your chance. An alpha version of Firefox 2.0 called "Bon Echo" is available on Mozilla's FTP servers, and you can choose from the Windows version, Mac OS X version, or Linux version.
Due out later this year, Firefox 2.0 promises a handful of improvements and new features over what is already a very solid browser. (By way of disclosure, I use Firefox 1.5 exclusively on my PCs and the Mozilla-derived Camino 1.0 on my non-Intel Macs.)
It's alpha software, so be prepared for crashes and other unpleasant experiences while using it. Having said that, I've been using it for a couple of hours without any problems. A handful of my extensions don't work with 2.0a1, so if you have become reliant on one or two Firefox extensions, you'll probably find yourself reverting to 1.5 before long.
Version 2.0 has a handful of new features. One of the more interesting ones is a new places menu, which is accessible from the bookmarks toolbar. Clicking on that brings up a box that will allow you to search your history, bookmarks, and RSS subscriptions for a keyword. Very useful if you remember reading about something interesting earlier in the day and need to quickly locate the web page again. Aesthetically speaking, there are a few minor tweaks to the UI, such as Xs on inactive tabs for easy closing.
Please Note: this is a Tinderbox Build and should be the same as the one that's being released on Tuesday 21st of March 2006, unless the find any show stopper bugs.
hyeah:
how long do you think it will take for the extensions to become compatible with this??
