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Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

By Bill Detwiler July 12, 2006, 4:30 AM PDT Bill Detwiler on Twitter billdetwiler

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Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) beta 1
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Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

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The Mozilla Organization continues to develop the next version of its popular Firefox browser. Code-named Bon Echo, Firefox 2 beta 1 is available now for download and use by the general public. It has new features such as an antiphishing control and a browser session-restore feature. For more details, see CNET Reviews’ Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) beta 1 First Take.

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Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

New in Firefox 2 beta 1 is a built-in antiphishing control. Like Internet Explorer 7 beta 3, Firefox 2 beta 1 will check a Web site for signs that it is not legitimate. Unlike IE 7, which uses heuristics as well as a blocked list, Firefox 2 currently uses only an internal blocked list.

Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

Firefox 2 goes further than IE 7 by also allowing you to change your antiphishing preference and use, say, Google’s instead.

Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

Like Opera 9, Firefox 2 has the ability to save all of your open tabs, and it offers to restore your last session upon reboot. This feature is handy if you keep a number of tabs open all the time.

Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

Unlike Internet Explorer, Firefox has long had a search box built into its browser. Now you can quickly reorder your search engine preferences and take advantage of that engine’s search suggestion capabilities.

Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

Say you want to find information on Bon Echo; just typing “bon echo” gives you a drop-down menu of suggested choices available on Google, for example.

Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

Want to bookmark a page? You can use either Live Bookmarks within Firefox or specify a third-party RSS reader as the default for all of your RSS subscriptions.

Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

Now any text that you type to multiline text boxes online will be checked for mistakes. However, only dictionary words are checked, and misspellings are identified with a squiggly red line. Grammar, which includes missing words, will not be checked.

Images: Inside Firefox 2’s beta 1

With Firefox 2, you can manage both your extensions and your themes (skins) within Firefox in one console. For more details, see CNET Reviews’ Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) beta 1 First Take.

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