Firefox 2.0 is a very much anticipated build with all of the features we have been told it is going to have. The most popular change that everyone expected with Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 was the user interface design. Unfortunately, this was not in this build and hopefully we will see some changes on May 9 when Firefox 2.0 Alpha 2 is released.
It is always interesting to see what the current progress of Firefox 2 is, and now they finally have a requirements page up which lists what they are planning to release with each build. Besides for the next Alpha 2 release, we can also expect to see a Beta 1, Beta 2, and then the final release.
I have been looking through the requirements page and here are the interesting points I thought were really notable:
- Alpha 2 - Some session restore features should be present.
- Alpha 2 - Spell-as-you-type functionality for text fields.
- Alpha 2 - Ability to subscribe to feeds using client application or web service.
- Alpha 2 - Improved extension management experience to simplify tasks of adding, removing, updating, disabling and configuring extensions.
- Alpha 2 - Ability to manage the search plugins.
- Alpha 2 - Heuristic in-browser phishing protection that provides warnings.
- Beta 1 - Improved memory usage.
As you can tell they are trying to implement the new features of Firefox 2 before the next Alpha is released. Looks good so far…keep it up Mozilla!
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