EDIT: My apologies, the title should be "firefox" not "firefo". The X key on my keyboard is tricky and sometimes it takes a while for X to show up.

My Firefox just upgraded to Beta 2 and since Beta 1, it has been greatly improved! A new theme has been made to replace the older default theme and it comes with a new security feature where it checks sites you visit against possible known phishing sites and will warn you.

One bug I noticed is that it likes to decrease page font size (Ctrl+-) on it's own sometimes.

Also, another cool feature is that when you close it, you can have it set to re-open the tabs you had open before you closed it. I like it!

Spell Check has had some minor improvements including "add to dictionary" function.

Get it! Or let Firefox update for you. If you want to know a little more, here's the Beta 2 start page: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/index-2.0b2.html

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This post has been edited by pyost: Sep 2 2006, 08:41 PM

Really can Firefox do those things now?? Big deal!!

Lol been using these features for years..cant imagine not browsing with 20 other tabs open and saved in thier positions when I start the pc next time..
Oh yes I use Opera
Had those features for 3 years orso now....

sounds good, can't wait until they actually release version 2.

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I actually wrote a thread about it here but maybe I posted it on the wrong forum... Whatever, yeah, the new version is great and is working really stably up 'till now and I've been using it for I think almost 48 hours (which included an abnormally large amount of browsing)! And yeah, I really think I should try out the newest Opera version as well.

This is one of those small improvents that really mean a lot. It's not rare that I close Firefox, but forget to bookmark a good web site. And what's with the speed? Has it increased, or stayed the same? Or maybe decreased

It seemed to have improve a little bit (cache tuned off, never use it as I do a lot of web development and visit frequently updated sites often) but no major difference.



I don't know how people can stand Opera... the UI is not very appealing to me. Plus, I've never liked Opera since the days of the advertisements in the free version, back when you had to pay. Plus, it's proprietary software, not open source. I usually never have any problems with open source. As you can probably tell, next to windows and a few (like less than 5) programs I use, everything is open source, unless I'm on my Linux box.

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sounds great , i really like firefox . they are doing a great job with it !

what new features are with this or just bug fixes?

Actually, now RC1 is the latest!

RC1 contains bug fixes from Beta 2. Most features are here: http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index...stone-released/

From the developers themselves: If no new bugs appear in RC1, then RC1 will be shipping out as Firefox 2.0!

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But those "new" features were available using the add-ons or whatever they are called now.. To add about Opera, I used to use Firefox and the look of Opera wasn't appealing for me either, but when I used Opera for one month I just can't get back to use Firefox anymore.. I only use Firefox to look how pages look on the mozilla engine and also sometimes use the web developer extension for debugging. Opera has a lot of nice skins and I also stopped using thunderbird some time ago and use Opera as my mailer and even IRC client, even though I would like more stuff added into irc chat..

But it is good that they are integrating very useful features into firefox.. I remember it was a pain to reconfigure firefox after a clean installation or similar, to search and install all the add-ons, but one time I found Mozilla Backup program and never will need to do it again