Enjoy a Better Web Experience
FireFox 2.0 delivers helpful new features to make your online
experience more productive.
Improved Tabbed Browsing
We love tabs as much as you do, so FireFox 2.0 will open new
web pages in tabs by default. Each of those tabs has its own
close button, but don’t worry - if you accidentally close a
tab, just go to the History menu to bring it back from the
list of “Recently Closed Tabs.” You’ll never be crunched for
space anymore, either. When you have too many tabs open to
comfortably fit in a single window, scroll arrows will
appear on either side, and a button on the right side will
always show you an easy-to-read list of all your open tabs.
 Spell
Checking
Sometimes you’re in a rush, and can’t remember if it’s “i”
before “e” or the other way around. FireFox 2.0 has built-in
spell checking to keep you from making any mistakes in your
blog posts and Web-based email, so you can worry about more
important things.
Search Suggestions
Some of the search engines in FireFox 2.0 can read your mind,
and actually suggest search terms for what you’re looking
for. Just start typing into the Search bar, and a drop down
list of suggestions will appear. (Works for Google, Yahoo!
and Answers.com.)
Session Restore
Losing your place while you’re doing things on the Web is a
pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart
or closes when it comes back you’ll pick up exactly where
you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text
you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had
running will all be restored. You can even set FireFox 2.0 to
always restore your previous session instead of loading a
home page, so you’ll never lose your place again.
 Web Feeds (RSS)
What do news headlines, indie rock podcasts, and pictures of
kittens have in common? They’re all things that you can
subscribe to with Web feeds. FireFox 2.0 gives you full
control over Web feeds, showing you a preview and letting
you choose how you want to subscribe. You can use a Firefox
Live Bookmark, or a feed reader that you’ve installed on
your computer, or through a Web service such as My Yahoo!,
Bloglines or Google Reader.
 Live
Titles
Keep an eye on that auction or the status of a delivery
using the new Live Titles feature in FireFox 2.0. Compact
enough to fit as a bookmark label, Live Titles are regularly
updated summaries of the most important information on a Web
page. As the information on the page gets updated, so does
your Live Title.
 Integrated
Search
Firefox helps you find whatever it is that you’re looking
for. The Search bar comes pre-loaded with search engines for
Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative
Commons. Wherever you are on the Web, you can enter a search
term in the Search bar and receive immediate answers from
the search engine you’ve chosen. You can select a new search
engine from the Search bar menu at any time, and add search
engines from hundreds of your favorite Web sites.
Live Bookmarks
Firefox Live Bookmarks let you view Web feeds such as news
and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or menu. With
one glance, quickly review the latest headlines from your
favorite sites and click to go directly to the articles that
interest you.
 Pop-up
Blocker
Firefox keeps you in control of the Web pages you’re
viewing, blocking annoying pop-ups. Firefox’s pop-up blocker
notifies you when pop-ups are blocked via the information
bar or icon on the lower right of the screen.
Streamlined Interface
The user interface in FireFox 2.0 has been updated to improve
usability without altering the familiarity of the browsing
experience.
Accessibility
Firefox delivers a better browsing experience for everyone -
including those who are visually impaired. Firefox includes
support for DHTML accessibility. Web developers can create
pages that reduce the amount of tabbing required to navigate
a document to minimize keystrokes for those with mobility
disabilities. Firefox also includes support for Microsoft
Active Accessibility, Microsoft’s accessibility API standard
for Windows. This support allows Firefox to work with screen
readers such as GW Micro’s Window-Eyes and Freedom
Scientific’s JAWS. FireFox 2.0 (Windows version) meets US
federal government requirements that software be easily
accessible to users with physical impairments.
Stay Secure on the Web
The Web is a great place, but sometimes you’ll encounter bad
people. Firefox keeps you safe from spyware, hackers,
scammers and spammers, using the power of a vigilant and
passionate community to protect you 24/7.
 Phishing
Protection
Phishing Protection takes Firefox’s security to a new level,
helping to safeguard your financial information and protect
you from identity theft. When you encounter a Web site that
is a suspected forgery (known as a “phishing” site) Firefox
will warn you and offer to take you to a search page so you
can find the real Web site you were looking for.
Open Source, More Secure
At the heart of Firefox is an open source development
process driven by thousands of passionate, experienced
developers and security experts spread all over the world.
Our openness and active community of experts helps to ensure
our products are more secure and updated quickly, while also
enabling us to take advantage of the best third party
security scanning and evaluation tools to further bolster
overall security.
 Automated
Update
Firefox’s update system always checks to see if you’re
running the latest version, and notifies you when a security
update is available. These security updates are small
(usually 200KB - 700KB), giving you only what you need and
making the security update quick to download and install.
The automated update system provides updates for Firefox on
Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 40 different languages.
Protection from Spyware
Firefox will not allow a Web site to download, install, or
run programs on your computer without your explicit
agreement. Period. You will be notified whenever downloading
or installing software, and Firefox will always tell you
what’s happening so that you can stay in control of your
computer.
 Clear
Private Data
Firefox offers the ability to clear all your private Web
browsing data with just one click with the “Clear Private
Data” tool. You can be confident that when you clear your
private data in Firefox it’s gone - whether you are using
your own computer or one at the library.
Personalize Your Browser
Choose from over a thousand useful add-ons that enhance Firefox.
It’s easy to personalize Firefox to make it your own.
An Add-on for Everyone
You can choose from over 1,000 add-ons at the Firefox
Add-ons Web site. A Firefox add-on can help you comparison
shop, share bookmarks with your friends, see the weather in
a corner of your browser, write to your weblog, get news,
listen to music - all from inside the browser you already
love. You can even change the appearance of your browser -
from buttons to colors and fonts - so that it matches your
own personal style.
 Add-ons
Manager for Extensions and Themes
The new Add-ons Manager improves the user interface for
managing extensions and themes, making it even easier for
you to customize FireFox 2.0. Install, uninstall, enable and
disable your add-ons in a single place.
 Search
Engine Manager
You can now quickly add, remove and re-order your search
engines in the Search bar. FireFox 2.0 will also detect when a
Web site has a search engine that can be installed, and will
install it for you with a single click in the drop-down
menu.
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