Ben Goodger, the lead expert of Mozilla’s Firefox development team, announced that the next version of this open-source browser is set to launch around the middle of this year. This information was shared by Goodger on the Inside Firefox website last weekend.
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If everything goes according to plan, Firefox 2.0 is expected to be completed by March this year, with the official version ready around mid-summer.
Goodger also mentioned that several new features will be introduced in this version of Firefox 2.0, including an enhanced user interface that offers a fresh new look and spell-checking capabilities for webmail and HTML-based applications.
Firefox 2.0 will continue to be developed on the same Gecko platform as Firefox 1.5. This means that the browser will maintain its high compatibility as it currently does. Some APIs will be supplemented, but there will be virtually no significant changes.
“From a developer’s perspective, our goal is for Firefox 2.0 to provide users with new improvements in how they operate the browser, thanks to stable rendering engines that contribute to the redevelopment of the browser in version 3.0.”
The browser’s bookmark management capabilities will also be enhanced to improve speed, scalability, and usability. Tabs will resemble browser windows more closely, allowing users to interact with them more than just rearranging them as in Firefox 1.5. Firefox 2.0 will also improve the handling of Atom and RSS feeds…
