11.02.06
Enjoy the noveltys in Firefox 2.0
Installing: Mozilla.org provides Firefox 2 for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in a variety of languages.
Iinstalling Firefox 2 will overwrite your existing installation of Firefox. You won’t lose any of your bookmarks or browsing history, but some of your extensions and other add-ons might not work until updates for them are made available.
Extensions:
When you install Firefox 2 all of your Extensions and Themes will be disabled until Firefox 2 determines that either they are compatible with the Firefox 2 release or there are newer versions available that are compatible. The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.
Removing:
You can remove Firefox 2 through the Control Panel in the Start Menu on Windows, by removing the Firefox application on OS X, or by removing the firefox folder on Linux.
Removing Firefox 2 won’t remove your bookmarks, web browsing history, extensions or other add-ons. This data is stored in your profile folder. Any version of Firefox that you install after removing Firefox 2 will continue to use the data from this profile folder.
Improved tabbed browsing:
Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows (you can change it in options), and each tab will now have a close tab button. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single window will see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that let them scroll back and forth between their tabs.
History:
The History menu will keep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quickly re-open an accidentally closed tab. The Session Restore feature restores windows, tabs, text typed in forms, and in-progress downloads from the last user session. It will be activated automatically when installing an application update or extension, and users will be asked if they want to resume their previous session after a system crash. We can put come-back of last opened session as start web in options.
Enhanced search capabilities:
A new search engine manager makes it easier to add, remove and re-order search engines, and users will be alerted when Firefox encounters a website that offers new search engines that the user may wish to install.
Built-in phishing protection:
Phishing Protection is turned on by default, and works by checking sites against either a local or online list of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded and regularly updated when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled.
Web feeds:
Users can decide how to handle Web feeds, either subscribing to them via a Web service or in a standalone RSS reader, or adding them as Live Bookmarks.
Inline spell checking!:
A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms without having to use a separate application. A variety of spell checking dictionaries for a number of languages are available, with the first run page shown after upgrading to Firefox 2 offering an appropriate dictionary for the localisation of Firefox installed.
JavaScript 1.7:
JavaScript 1.7 is a language update introducing several new features such as generators, iterators, array comprehensions, let expressions, and destructuring assignments. It also includes all the features of JavaScript 1.6.
Live Titles:
When a website offers a microsummary (a regularly updated summary of the most important information on a Web page), users can create a bookmark with a “Live Title”. Compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly updated with the latest information. There are several websites that can be bookmarked with Live Titles, and even more add-ons to generate Live Titles for other popular websites.
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