FireFox 2.0

FireFox 2.0 alpha is out and it’s getting mixed reviews. I have not played with it yet (I’m gun-shy right now because lately it seems my FireFox 1.5 has decided that more memory usage is the ideal state of affairs) but Jesse has. He posted a brief review of Firefox 2.0 at Technosailor:

1. Not much is different, really. I hardly see any visual changes, and I had heard there would be tons in the 2.0 release. You must remember, though, that this is not a feature-complete alpha, so I have a feeling the changes thus far are mostly ones you can’t see.

2. It’s really fast. Pages load really, really fast for me. Probably a good second faster. At least.

3. Stuff works. March Madness on Demand wasn’t working in firefox, which had me pretty ticked off, but it works like a charm in this one.

4. The menus are a bit different. Nothing drastic, but the layout and contents of the menu has changed a wee bit.

El Geek praises (en Español) new anti-phishing measures:

Durante marzo aparecerá una versión Alpha. Firefox 2.0, la nueva versión del navegador de la Fundación Mozilla que vería la luz durante el tercer trimestre del 2006 incluirá una protección contra el Phishing que fue desarollada en conjunto con Google, sumándose así, al Explorer 7 y al Opera 8 que ya cuentan con este tipo de filtros.

(rough translation)

During March, there will be an alpha version [of Firefox]. Firefox 2.0, the new browser from the Mozilla Foundation who verified that it would be released during the first trimester of 2006, will include phishing protection along with Google, IE7 and Opera 8 all who already had this protection.

I agree. For as cutting edge as Firefox has been, the other players in the industry have definitly beaten them to the bunch with anti-phishing attempts.

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