Firefox 2.0
Firefox 2.0 has been out for a while. With it comes a number of improvements and new features.
Some of the new features are:
1) Built in phishing protection - Warns user about sites that are possibly not safe.
2) Resuming your browsing session - "The Session Restore feature restores windows, tabs, text typed in forms, and in-progress downloads from the last user session. "By default, it only asks you if you want to restore session if firefox crashed.
To make it restore the previous session everytime you start Firefox,
- click on Tools
- Then click on Options
- and then under the Main tab , you should see When Firefox starts: pick from the drop down box, Show my Windows and Tabs from Last Time.
These are just some of the new features. If you wanna read all about it, check out Firefox Release Notes.
With the release of Firefox 2.0, i figured a lot of new users would like to know what are some of the great extensions that can significantly enhance your firefox experience. According to wikipedia, "Extensions are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Foundation's projects (and compatible variants such as Portable Firefox), and add features to the application or allow existing features to be modified."
My Favorite Extensions
- FireFTP - "It is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers."
- AdBlock - " Adblock is a content filtering plug-in for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers." It allows you to block ads based on rules set by you. So u could ask it to block all gif images or all banners. Your choices are endless. So give it a try.
- GooglePedia - "Shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results." When you perform a google search, it shows the google search results and the wikipedia article for the same term side by side. I love this extension
- Fast Video Download - This extension allows you to download videos from youtube, google video and much much more.
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