Mozillahas released a new test version of Firefox 2.0, which will be the next major version of its popular open-source browser.
Firefox 2.0 Beta 2, released Thursday at about 3 p.m. Pacific time, features an improved user interface and a limited version
of the phishing protection feature that Mozilla is developing for the browser. More information on the Beta 2 release can
be found here.
Beta 2 also comes with improved search capabilities, a spellchecker for Web forms, and jazzed-up tabbed browsing capabilities.
This second beta release will probably be the last beta version of Firefox 2.0. Developers are now planning to ship a nearly
final "release candidate" edition of the browser on Sept. 19, with the finished product going out the door by the end of October.
Mozilla had been hoping to have Firefox 2.0 finished by September, but that date was pushed back recently to give developers
more time to squash the growing list of bugs in the beta code.
Both Mozilla and Microsoft are rushing to finish major updates to their browser software. Late last week Microsoft posted
the first release-candidate version of Internet Explorer 7, and it is expecting to ship the final version of the next-generation
browser by year's end. The release candidate can be found here.
Research company OneStat.com estimates that about 13 percent of Web surfers now use Firefox. The Netherlands-based company
pegs IE users at 83 percent.
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