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The final-version release of the popular open source browser touts built-in phishing protection and spell-checking for online forms, as well as an option to restore forms and pages after an application crash.

Firefox's RSS handling has also been updated, allowing users to decide whether to send feeds to an RSS reader or use Firefox's Live Bookmarks feature, which shows the latest headlines from a site rather than a specific title.

"The improvements Mozilla has made to the ease of use, performance, and security in Firefox 2 reflect our ongoing, singular focus on meeting the needs of web users all over the world,” said Mozilla chief executive Mitchell Baker.

Originally slated for release in Mid-August, Firefox 2.0 had been delayed to allow for bug fixes. The browser entered its release candidate phase in September and October.

The release of Firefox 2.0 comes five days after Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 7, the first major standalone update to the browser in five years. While Internet Explorer remains the dominant browser on the web, Firefox's market share has climbed to 11.5 per cent worldwide, compared to Internet Explorer's 85.85 per cent, according to web data from the onestat.com analytics service.

Firefox 2.0 is available as a free download for the Windows, Linux and MacOS X operating systems in multiple languages.

Pastor Roger,

Brother, I started using the Firefox Release Candidates before the final release, and I think that Firefox is great. I've been using the full release of 2.0 when it first became available, and it is an OUTSTANDING piece of software.

It does have a lot of new features, more choices, more speed, more dependability, and more of everything. The base software of Firefox is very powerful, and many more things are now available as extensions. As an example, they are developing a calendar and planner, much like that in Outlook, and the progress is excellent. There are already many business and personal functions that can't be done on any other browser, and the list just gets bigger by the day. By the way, the calendar and planner module is called Lightning. I tried it for several days, even though I don't need it. It currently has a rating of 4 out of a possible 5, and there are a few bugs left to work out. BUT, Lightning has a lot of promise to compete with the planner functions of Outlook and Lightning is FREE. Just a few more examples: one can already do web pages, blogs, and many other things from within Firefox. The list of additions that they call extensions is now over 1,000, and they are ALL FREE.

In conclusion, I think that Firefox 2.0 is great, and it's very easy to use.

Love In Christ,
Tom

Ephesians 1:18-23 NASB  I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.