Firefox 2.0 alpha released to developers
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Digg thisupdate Mozilla has released a developers' version of Firefox 2.0 to enable them to test the infrastructure supporting the browser's new bookmark functionality.
Firefox 2.0 Bon Echo Alpha 1, delivered Tuesday evening, focuses on improving access and the ease of use for Web site history and bookmarks, known as Places, according to the Mozilla wiki.
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The Places functionality aims to consolidate user data formats, as well as improve the capabilities of Live Bookmarks.
"The BonEcho Alpha 1 milestone is the first of many developer milestones on the path to Firefox 2," Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering for Mozilla, said in a statement. "We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download Alpha 1, as it is intended for testing purposes only."
The final release of Firefox 2.0 is expected in the third quarter of this year. Its debut would come roughly two years after Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004 amid much fanfare.
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Mac Snobs
Julie Allen
Mar 22, 2006, 10:35 AM PST
Try it FF2 using a portable version
mvprj84
Mar 22, 2006, 10:34 AM PST
Check out Oxygen browser too
Dean_Ansari
Mar 22, 2006, 9:32 AM PST
will it search text fields?
Brian G
Mar 21, 2006, 10:28 PM PST
We already have it... 
CentrOS
Mar 21, 2006, 7:40 PM PST
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