October 24, 2006

• Woo hoo!

  Firefox 2 has been released!  If you can’t wait for your version to auto-download itself you can snarf it from here.  Neat new features as said by one of my co-workers:

  It is very nice, but with very little change in many ways so it is an easy transition. The things I’m appreciating the most so far are the improvements in the tab bar: It now scrolls so that the tabs don’t shrink down to be unusable, there’s a close button on each tab, and there’s a drop-down menu on the right that will give you a list of all the  open tabs, with full, untruncated titles. Another nice thing is a spell checker built into the editable-text control, so you automatically get on-the-fly spell checking when entering text in a web form such as a blog comment. The scariest thing is probably the recommended-search function; when you start entering text into the google box in he menubar, it gives you an autofill-type drop down with likely completions, including many that you never entered before. For example, enter the word “Kentucky”, and it will play word-association with you, suggesting a bunch of completions such as “…fried chicken”, “…wildcats”, “…state parks”, etc.

  Take that IE7! 

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