• Firefox 2 Beta 1 Preview

    Firefox 2 Beta 1 Preview

    Frazier Barretto, Aug 06, 2006 1405 hrs IST

    Firefox has been out for quite some time now, and we are loving it. It's time for its second major coming.

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Firefox has been out for quite some time now, and we are lovin it (no no, it's not a burger.) Yeah, so for the I-don't-know-nothin-about-Firefox lot, here it is: Firefox is an open source browser project from Mozilla, something similar to Linux wherein Linux is an OS while Firefox is an Internet Browser. There have been many versions released of the browser but the 1.5 version stands out the most. Now Mozilla is trying to further enhance the stability of the browser while improving on the usability as well. The second-coming of the most downloaded browser of all time, Firefox version 2.0 final, will soon be released to create another milestone of maximum downloads. Even Microsoft is working on IE; their outdated browser, to get it to the advanced levels as compared to Mozilla's Firefox. So, currently we have two major players in the Internet Browsers working on their next releases. Oh!! Wait. We almost forgot Opera that is available with most of it, Opera is quietly gaining market. Since it can't go head to head with the two biggies, it's cutting-in slowly from behind. Opera now has the huge market with concerns to mobile browsers.

This debate will lead to an eternity as to which browser is the best, so I'll just cut the chase and write a few of the not-so-sure improvements in the final release of Firefox 2.0.

Add-ons

Add-ons is nothing but all your extensions and themes under one roof. Now you don't have two windows to open when you want to look at the themes you've or the extensions installed. Getting both under one category isn't the major change though. You can now uninstall each of your extensions from within the Add-ons. When you select an extension it gives you buttons on it such as options, disable, and uninstall. That really takes care of the problems faced before with extensions.



Similarly, the same is applied to the themes as well. The pictures below should give you a fair idea.



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