Firefox 3 Beta 2 Now Available

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http://mashable.com/2007/12/19/firefox-3-beta-2-now-available/

The holy grail of all us people who work in Firefox day in, day out (and, unfortunately, often endure slowdowns and lockups) - Firefox version 3 - seems to be near completion. As of today, Firefox 3 beta 2 is available for download and testing purposes; however, donâ€™t get your hopes up just yet. As the folks of Mozilla say, â€œwith this second beta, youâ€™ll get a taste of whatâ€™s coming in Firefox 3, but thereâ€™s still more to come, and much of what youâ€™ll see is still a bit rough around the edges.â€

Still, if youâ€™re the adventurous type, itâ€™s worth trying. since it includes â€œapproximately 900 improvements over the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements.â€ Much of this stuff comes from the community feedback from the first beta.

Some of the improvements (some are from beta 1) that caught our eye are:

- clicking on the favicon now gives information on the site owner
- Firefox now informs anti-virus software when downloading executable files
- better password management
- download manager further improved from beta 1
- resumable downloading (there is a God after all)
- text selection improvements (word by word, paragraph, multiple text selection)
- better integration with Vista, Mac and Linux
- single-click bookmark adding
- web applications, such as Gmail, can now handle mailto: links
- major architectural changes which should result in a speedier performance
- 300 memory leaks plugged (a very important fix that should hopefully reduce those slowdowns to a distant memory)
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Who has downloaded the new firefox?