I have downloaded and installed Firefox 2 Beta 1 today... It seems to have installed alongside Firefox 1.5.04 quite happily, so not too much risk in using it.
The one obvious change, which I really like, is that when you have several tabs open: The close tab icon in ON THE TAB, not all the way across the other side of the window! In fact - JUST LIKE IE7
From the bit-tech news site:
Firefox 2 Beta 1 has now been released to replace "Bon Echo" as the beta version of Firefox. Once all the bugs are ironed out and new features added, we should see a final release of Firefox two circulating by Q3 2006. Going a bit further ahead, Mozilla is also hoping to have Firefox 3 ready for Q1 2007, but this is not confirmed.
So what new features can we expect from Beta 1? Well, as with Bon Echo there is the new spell checking function which appears in text areas, particularly useful for forums. Close buttons for each tab, rather than being on the top right corner of the window, under the address bar. There is also a new security feature, anti-phishing which cleverly detects whether a website is a fake. Release notes can be viewed here.
For all you Firefox fanboys out there, Beta 1 is available for download in the usual many languages here.
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