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Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 Arrives

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the enjoy-the-pretty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has released Beta 2 of its upcoming Firefox 2 browser for developer review. It is being made available for testing purposes only. The release contains a number of new features, as well as some enhancements to look and feel. DesktopLinux.com has posted a list of the changes along with a few quick screen grabs. Apparently, the download can be found on Mozilla's ftp site."

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  1. Firefox 2? by KSobby · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't Clint Eastwood a bit old to be doing this stuff?

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    1. Re:Firefox 2? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only if you think in Russian

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    2. Re:Firefox 2? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Rumor is that it's not going to be Clint Eastwood, but is going to star Samuel L. Jackson...Other workin titles are "Snakes on a Fighter Jet" "Anaconda 4" "SoaF" "Snakes on a Plane 2:Snakes in the Cockpit"

    3. Re:Firefox 2? by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 4, Funny

      Be honest: How long have you been saving that one up?

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  2. Firefox Shakespear by Aqws · · Score: 4, Funny

    FireFox, 2B or not 2B.

    1. Re:Firefox Shakespear by tomee · · Score: 2, Funny

      2B or not 2B = -1

  3. This alone makes it worth it by eyeye · · Score: 5, Funny

    "toolbar buttons now glow when you hover over them."

    FINALLY!

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  4. greetings from the year 3000 by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    New Firefox 2 feature: Inline spell checking -- A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms.

    But will this detect antiquated Elglish, such as when people use "ask" instead of "ax"?

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    1. Re:greetings from the year 3000 by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

      jokes on my typo in 3...2...1....

      I guess if I were using Firefox 2 I'd be all set. :)

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  5. Re:Testing? by Trillan · · Score: 4, Funny

    You must have incredible lung capacity. If I'd held my breath waiting for Internet Explorer 7 I'd have been dead for just over five years now.

  6. Hmmm... lets see by El+Lobo · · Score: 2, Funny
    For instance, toolbar buttons now glow when you hover over them.
    Great functionality. Can't live without it!
    Built-in phishing protection
    Wow, pure innovation. I've never seen anything like that
    Search term suggestions will now appear as users type in the integrated search box when using the Google, Yahoo! or Answers.com
    Hello!! MSN user here!
    Resuming your browsing session
    Pure genius. How did they invented that?
    Inline spell checking
    Dot'n need thtat! Ohh.. and everything for the great price of... 675 Mb in memory when 7 tabs are open simultaniously!
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  7. Re:One question before I try this out... by fireman+sam · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do I have to back up my people v1.5 profile and what type of people are you installing?

    *sorry*

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  8. Re:SoaF by mcmonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but where will they find snakes that think in Russian?

  9. Phishing Protection by AeroIllini · · Score: 3, Funny

    Built-Phishing Protection:

    WARNING:

    The man you are about to converse with is not really a high ranking General in the Nigerian army, he does not really have a rich uncle who died tragically in a plane crash in Siberia, and he absolutely DOES NOT have $53.4 million dollars to smuggle out of Nigeria for his uncle's poor orphaned children. You will not get 30%. Trust us.

    ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO CONTINUE?

    +----+ +--------+
    | OK | | CANCEL |
    +----+ +--------+

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  10. Re:This is INCORRECT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh what do you know?

  11. Rant: Access keys and Wikipedia. by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Funny
    > Actually, every other released browser has moved to using a close box for each tab, and it's generally considered the superior interface. I find it jarring when I switch to a browser still using one close box off in the far right. If you want to quickly close tabs, use Ctrl/Cmd-W.

    Warning: Rant coming on.

    And if you want to feel incoherent rage, type "Alt-F(file-menu),C(close tab)" for a year and then go to Wikipedia and try to close the page. Oops. You can't, because some dumb fuck decided it should mean "Find" in wikipedia.

    Whatever pigfucker decided that a fucking web page should be able to override an application's ability to use a key such as Alt-F should be gutted like a fish and have his entrails wrapped around a pickle fork and shoved down his throat.

    And when he gets to my website, he will, because my CSS thinks that "F" stands for "fishyfork".

  12. Re:I might consider it... by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 2, Funny
    For people without the hard drive space to dual boot, is Konqueror or any other KHTML based web browser ported to Microsoft Windows yet?

    Dual boot? Why would you install Windows to run Konqueror?

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