The browser wars are heating up, as the first beta of Firefox 2.0is due on Tuesday July 11th, and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is nowon it's third beta release.
Firefox fans, and browser junkies havean opportunity to get a jump on Tuesday's beta, as a public "releasecandidate" has been posted on the Mozilla FTP site. This nightly buildis finally feature complete, although it's still not completely readyfor mass consumption.
Reports from early testerscompliment two of the significant new features: an integrated spellchecker, and an anti-phishing tool. The spell-checker promises to makeblog and forum postings more lucid. The phishing filter (an integratedcomponent of IE 7.0 as well) works with locally stored lists of badsites, along with Google's site listing, and possibly others down theroad.
The rest of the interface stays mostly the same, unlikethe more radical changes in IE 7.0. Firefox 2.0 does include ahorizontal scrolling capability for tabs, and an ability to close a tabdirectly from within the tab itself. The Options dialog has beenreworked to include a horizontal, tabbed based interface, and numerouschanges have been made under the hood.
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