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Mozilla Firefox, the popular web browser, caused a stir with the original release, but apart from minor changes, visual improvements and security fixes, there haven’t been a wide range of new features since the original 1.x release.  This is all about to change, with the forthcoming release of Firefox 2.0, planned for August 2006.

This is beta 1 and the first public release of Firefox 2.0, along with a snapshot of the forthcoming new features. It must be noted that this is only a beta and should be used for testing-purposes only. Many of the existing themes and extensions are not operating within this beta release. Indeed, the planned new theme for Firefox 2.0 will not happen until beta 2 at the earliest.

Current new 2.0 features include anti-phishing support, useful for acknowledging the difference between a legitimate website and a fake site set up for the purposes of obtaining your personal information.

Other new features include enhanced tabbed browsing, the ability to open tabs closed accidentally, spell checking within web forms, a search plugin manager, combined and enhanced Add-Ons manager and much more, including support for new web standards.

Note that you can install Firefox 2.0 beta 1 alongside your existing 1.5.x set up,

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