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 is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system
Download: Windows | 5.44 MB
Download: Linux | 8.94 MB
News source: Mozilla FireFox
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 is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system Download: Windows | 5.44 MB Download: Linux | 8.94 MB News source: Mozilla FireFox
Oh, and the search box is the same size as it was in 1.5.x. They just moved the "search provider" icon to the right side from the left side.
If you drag-move the search bar to the Naviagtion Toolbar or the Bookmarks Toolbar, it will auto-size to fill whatever empty sapce is available, down to a fixed minimum size.
oh, and thanks for the tips.
oh, and thanks for the tips.
http://dragtotab.mozdev.org/resizesearchbox/
beta 1 rc 3
I was using the alpha and wow it crashed an awful lot.
Also flash is not compatible with it yet.
I ll wait till the full release.
Firefox 2.0 that is..
From http://mozillazine.org/
Over the past few days, several release candidate builds of Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 have been posted to the bonecho-beta1-candidates directory on ftp.mozilla.org. However, contrary to the indications given by some news outlets, Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 has not yet been released.
In common with many software projects, several release candidate (test) builds of Firefox are made available in the run-up to major milestone releases. These builds are similar, but not identical to, the final milestone releases and are designed to allow the testing community to discover any last-minute problems. Sometimes, but not always, the last release candidate builds are identical to the actual milestone release versions.
Although Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 is not intended for regular end-users, it is expected to be distributed more widely than any of the pre-Firefox 2.0 builds made available to date. There will probably be substantial media coverage and reviews in the technology press.
Yesterday, Ars Technica published a brief overview of one of the Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 release candidates. This news was picked up by Slashdot, who published a summary of Ars Technica's look at the Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 release candidate. Such high-profile coverage may mislead some readers into believing that the actual Beta 1 has been released when it has not.
According to the notes from today's Firefox 2 status meeting, Beta 1 is scheduled for release tomorrow. However, it is possible that a last-minute problem could necessitate a further release candidate, with the final Beta 1 builds being delayed until later this week.
The problem of test releases being mistaken for something more substantial is not a new one for the Mozilla project. Over the past year or so, it has become commonplace for alpha releases to not carry the Firefox branding at all and instead be tagged with codenames, which led to the Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 alphas being released under the Deer Park and Bon Echo banners respectively. Similar thinking has resulted in the nightly trunk builds (bleeding-edge test binaries that will eventually form the basis of next year's Firefox 3.0) being rebranded as Minefield (complete with a special Minefield logo).
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...efox2.0b1-l10n/
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...fox-2.0b1-l10n/
Bothe are dated the same day (11 July) but one is a bit newer when it comes to hours
EDT:
Avaible on Releases
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/fir...es/2.0b1/win32/
Much better version than 1.5 I must say.....
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