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Not to be outdone by Microsoft's recent release of Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla will release the second major version of its rival Firefox browser on Tuesday, October 24. According to Mozilla Vice President of Products Christopher Beard, Firefox 2.0, which should be available on Tuesday if all goes according to schedule, includes key new usability features missing in the new IE 7. Updated Mozilla Features Mozilla has also enhanced the popular tabbed browsing feature in 2.0 that Firefox introduced when it emerged two years ago as the first significant rival to IE in years, Beard adds. Tabs allow users to navigate more easily between multiple Web pages when browsing the Internet, and Microsoft added tabs to IE 7 after Firefox's success with the feature. In Firefox 2.0, Mozilla has added a "close" button on its tabs, as well as new visual features to make the tabs appear more obvious to the user, Beard says. New usability features in Firefox 2.0 that differentiate it from IE 7 include one that will restore the browser to pages where the user was working if a sudden OS restart is required. "If your browser needs a restart or the OS asks you to reboot, losing all of those Web pages and content is pretty disruptive," Beard notes. Firefox 2.0 is offering two options for enabling this feature. One way is that, by default, the browser will give the user an option to restore his or her browser sessions if there is an unexpected shutdown; the other is an advanced option to set the browser so that it always restores the last five pages visited before a sudden reboot. Antiphishing Filters in Both Browsers Like IE 7, Firefox 2.0 also has an antiphishing filter that will help protect users from divulging personal information to fraudulent Web sites. But Mozilla has taken a different approach to its antiphishing filter than Microsoft has, Beard says. Instead of checking individual Web pages users visit against lists of known phishing sites, thus sending information from the site to third parties that keep lists of such sites, Firefox updates its blacklist of known fraudulent Web sites automatically every half-hour to an hour. Beard said this better protects users' privacy because no information from the sites they've visited is sent to any third parties. Mozilla also has added spell-checking features to the browser similar to those found in word-processing applications. Whenever a user is typing text in the browser--as when typing the name of a Web site, a blog entry, or an e-mail--Firefox's spell checker will underline in red words that appear misspelled. Right-clicking on the word will give a user options for a corrected spelling. In addition, Firefox 2.0 has a new feature in its integrated search box that will suggest a list of search terms after a user types a few letters of a word, depending on the search engine being used. Firefox 2.0 uses Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com search engines as options for the search box, and each uses a different algorithm to suggest search terms, Beard explains. To ensure that this feature is not disruptive to the user experience, the suggested search terms will appear in a separate pane below the search box, he adds. News source: news.yahoo.com

my vote goes to the coloured flag version! GREAT JOB! VERY WELL DONE!

sorry guys...where is the value to edit the width of the window? i'm using the italian version of XP and i'd like the same window of ricktendo HELP ME PLEASE

hello guys. i need to know where can i find the values to tweak the highlight bar on selection menu. The skyblue rectangle with the blue border Thanks a lot

Thank you Takeshi, i know it's not the right forum section, but you can reply with a PM too do you know if exist some higher quality nero 7 icons, i could replace with the default ones? Thanks a lot

Administrator, but my parents are simple users with not many priveleges...that's better

Thanks Pal, and now another question for all of ya... i have XPIZE installed and i'm using 48x48 icons on desktop, on these autorun handlers some icons (nero7 ones for example) seems to appear a bit pixellated. is there a way to set these icons at a lower size? Only in autorun handlers! THANKS A LOT

hello guys. where do i disable some unwanted applications from autorun list? thanks

these desktop search programs are completely useless and ram/hd space eaters

nero7 is totally crap. just use the latest 6.6.1.4 version of nero! it's amazing!

thanks for reply Xpero! well...i'm only trying to uninstall custom icons from your uninstaller, i need WMP!

on the usually directory C:\Programmi\ (Program Files for you )...i uninstalled that, done a normal reloading and after rebooting another 'forced' reloading.

already done that...also tried Xpize force reload but no success

hello. i have a problem. i've uninstalled the AVI and MPEG custom icons but they are still there...what i want is to restore default windows media player icons for these kind of files.. how to do that? thanks

hello guys! i'd like to make a little request to you, who are good graphics i'd like 2 icons to distinguish upload and download everytime i use bittornado to download or upload some torrents. these arrows should be RED for upload and GREEN for download...glossy if possible and they should be placed on the systray (near the watch)...an idea could be a square (red or green) with a white arrow UP for upload or DOWN for download. please let me know if you've time to spend on these icons... THANKS A LOT

yes sure. we use to share some folders, but from windows i can't see what he's downloading. thanks

is there any application which can sync on wireless net and log filenames? i really don't know if exists...that's just a question for some more expert than me

cause when i'm away, i'd like to see which files have been downloaded....just for statistics

hello friends!! i'm using a wireless connection with a friend of mine who lives in a palace near mine. i'd like to know if it's possible to log traffic between pc's...can i see which files have been transferred, for example, logging of mp3, jpg's...and so on? is there an application which does this? THANKS A LOT

well...you should tell us your configuration, go on -> DEVICES and look for VIDEO BOARD. SP3? where did you get it?

Hello guys! i need your help to remove some commands about WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 10 and WINAMP from the context menu, but i'd like to do these separately from folders and files context menus: FOR FOLDERS: i'd like to remove WINAMP menus, but keeping those for FILES FOR FILES: i'd like to remove some WMP10 menus but keeping WINAMP ones. is it possible to do that? THANKS A LOT

well...i think these data should be stored into a specific form

i agree! filezilla server is the easiesy way to set up a local FTP

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK MAN!! I prefer your application than the 'Logo Stamper' cause yours it's simpler, UI cleaner...and so on! Let us know when you have news about updates!! AND THANKS AGAIN!

nice! i'd like to see a feature to add OEMLOGO.BMP...resizing that if necessary, after that it's really perfect!