On Saturday Mozilla officially released RC2 of Firefox 2.0, Neowin originally reported the release a day earlier on Friday the 6th.
Mozilla Firefox, the popular web browser, caused a stir with the original release, but apart from minor changes, visual improvements and security fixes, there haven’t been a wide range of new features since the original 1.x release. This is all about to change, with the forthcoming release of Firefox 2.0, planned for October/November 2006.
This is Release Candidate 2 and the second public preview of Firefox 2.0, along with a snapshot of the forthcoming new features. It must be noted that this is only a beta and should be used for testing-purposes only. Many of the existing themes and extensions are not operating within this beta release.
Current new 2.0 features include anti-phishing support, useful for acknowledging the difference between a legitimate website and a fake site set up for the purposes of obtaining your personal information.
Download: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 RC2 (English)
View: IT Week
Mozilla Firefox, the popular web browser, caused a stir with the original release, but apart from minor changes, visual improvements and security fixes, there haven’t been a wide range of new features since the original 1.x release. This is all about to change, with the forthcoming release of Firefox 2.0, planned for October/November 2006.
This is Release Candidate 2 and the second public preview of Firefox 2.0, along with a snapshot of the forthcoming new features. It must be noted that this is only a beta and should be used for testing-purposes only. Many of the existing themes and extensions are not operating within this beta release.
Current new 2.0 features include anti-phishing support, useful for acknowledging the difference between a legitimate website and a fake site set up for the purposes of obtaining your personal information.
Download: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 RC2 (English) View: IT Week
I can't wait for the final version!
Last edited by lbmouse on 09 Oct 2006 - 13:14
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/
First time I've looked at this myself, and there are more than I knew about. Why must all this stuff be lumped into the main distribution? At the very least, make them installable options so we don't have to put up with them!
I fear the days of the lean'n'mean Firefox are gone for good...
PS: many extensions just need a version-bump but are otherwise compatible. You can fix them yourself by extracting the .XPI file (it's just a zip-file) and editing the file install.rdf. The authors often don't perform the version-bump until the final release.
It's NOT a Beta, it's a RELEASE CANDIDATE. This article contradicts itself right away.
1.x works, as to all my extensions. I'll let you young whipper snappers play with it for now
Or since it's open source you could always make your own 1.x patches forever...
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