Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Download

Mathew Everett 10 Jul, 2006 at 3:00pm ET Article published in Tech

Mozilla has released the download of the first beta of its Firefox 2.0 browser a few days early. Originally scheduled for an 11 July release, some users found the 5.4 MB release candidate file on Mozilla’s public FTP servers already Sunday night.

Don’t expect dramatic changes, but rather subtle improvements in Firefox’ user interface. For example, the “Options” menu has been reorganized and every browser tab now carries its own “Close” symbol – instead of showing the logo on the right edge of the browser tab. During our first test run, the beta appeared to run stable, but – as all Firefox updates – may require updated versions of previously installed browser extensions.

Source: TG Daily

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10 Jul 2006 ~ 7:14pm airbornflght

Sledgehammer70 wrote:

Mozilla has released the download of the first beta of its Firefox 2.0 browser a few days early. Originally scheduled for an 11 July release, some users found the 5.4 MB release candidate file on Mozilla's public FTP servers already Sunday night.

Click here to get FF 2.0 Beta 1

Source: TG Daily

Nice.
10 Jul 2006 ~ 7:58pm Enverex Heh, I was talking to someone in a Linux channel the other day that was in the process of trying to compile Firefox 3.0 (albiet not having much luck due to it's current state).
11 Jul 2006 ~ 11:34am V-P So what was Bon Echo then?
11 Jul 2006 ~ 12:10pm Linc This beta is codenamed Bon Echo (which is a park in Ontario). Check out the Ars Technica news bit for more detail: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060710-7229.html
11 Jul 2006 ~ 6:46pm airbornflght Im using it now, not bad, although, my themes wont work, damn.
11 Jul 2006 ~ 7:03pm Leonardo I'm running it now on three computers. No problems so far. I have few addons or fancy stuff integrated, so can't comment on that stuff.
11 Jul 2006 ~ 7:17pm airbornflght I just wish my theme would work, I dont know why they would have changed it, the ui is almost the same. I hear 3 is going to be quite a bit different though. The theme I had was almost identical to the original theme, although, the buttons were a little smooter, and they were glossy/polished.