“The beta candidate is code named Bon Echo, after Bon Echo Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. Mozilla is hoping that users find this release to be a “good echo” of what they have gotten used to. Firefox 2 hasn’t changed much, interface-wise, from the original. Existing users will be instantly familiar with the standard button bar, links bar, and the row of tabs. One minor change is the ability to scroll the tab bar horizontally when it gets too large. Tabs also have small “X” boxes attached, making them easier to close. Under the hood, however, there have been numerous bugfixes and improvements, in addition to some welcome new features.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
Tech Talk
- The People Behind DirectX 10: Part 3–Nvidia’s Tony Tamasi @ ExtremeTech
- ASUS AiGuru S1: Skype goes WiFi @ AnandTech
- X-Treme Gaming System Giveaway at Modders-Inc
- World’s first pics of Vista D3D10 hardware? @ HEXUS
- Why we love Google and hate the RIAA @ Short-Media
- T-Mobile SideKick 3 @ Digital Trends
- Sony Cybershot DSC-W70 Review @ WindowsAtoZ
- Conroe nForce Chat this Thursday, 7-13-2006 @ Bjorn3D
Get your beta on
FireFox 2.0 Public Beta is here. Drop by Ars Technica for a link to get it for yourself. Although your extensions will not be very likely to work, some of the more popular extensions have been incorporated into the main program.