Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Firefox 2 Beta 1 released for developers to begin testing
Fortunately, Firefox continues to be improved in 2006.
Mozilla Developer News: Blog Archive: Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone released:
Some of the coolest-sounding features - to me, anyway - are:
Lest you get too carried away, note the caveat below taken from the page cited above:
In other words, this is not a build to play with in a carefree fashion. It is to do serious testing on, so the kinks can be found and gotten out before Firefox 2 is released to everyone at large.
If you don't want to try it, you can still look at it. Lifehacker has posted Firefox 2 beta 1 screenshots.
Mozilla Developer News: Blog Archive: Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone released:
Firefox 2 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the fourth developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 2.
Some of the coolest-sounding features - to me, anyway - are:
- Microsummaries
- Javascript 1.7
- SVG graphics standard - adding support for its svg:textPath element
- spell checking in text boxes
- ability to easily delete unwanted search plugins
Lest you get too carried away, note the caveat below taken from the page cited above:
Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 2 Beta 1 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.
In other words, this is not a build to play with in a carefree fashion. It is to do serious testing on, so the kinks can be found and gotten out before Firefox 2 is released to everyone at large.
If you don't want to try it, you can still look at it. Lifehacker has posted Firefox 2 beta 1 screenshots.
Hopefully, someday I will get this page to validate!
