Firefox has been designed to provide a better, faster, more efficient and enjoyable Web experience. The Firefox 2 browser's award-winning features include:
Tabbed Browsing Tabs are cool and tabbed browing makes managing your busy online life just that little bit easier. Firefox 2 will open new web pages in tabs by default. Each of these tabs has its own close button, which you can easily retrieve from the History menu. You don’t have to worry about having too many tabs open at one time either. When you have too many tabs to fit into a single window, a button the right side will display a full list of all open tabs, no matter how many you have on the go. 
Spell Check Facility
When you’re moving fast around the web you’re spelling can sometimes let you down. Don’t worry about it. Firefox 2 has a built-in spell check facility designed to spot mistakes in your blog posts or webmail entries.
Helpful Search Suggestions
To save you even more time, Firefox 2 tries to read your mind by suggesting search terms for you. The moment you start typing into the Search bar, a list of suggested words will appear, saving you even more effort. This feature works just as well for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com.
Session Restore Feature
Everyone hates losing their work, especially when it’s taken you a lot of online time to acquire the exact information you need. One of Firefox 2’s most outstanding features is its Session Restore feature. If Firefox is closed down for whatever reason, it will offer you the option of picking up exactly where you stopped off. Everything will be restored just as you left it: from the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running. If you like, you can even configure Firefox 2 to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page. With Firefox 2 lost work is a thing of the past.
Web Feeds (RSS)
Whether you want news headlines, podcasts or videos, Web Feeds provide a brilliant source of subscription material. Firefox 2 gives you full control over Web feeds, showing you a preview and letting you choose how you want to subscribe. You can do this by using a Firefox Live Bookmark, or installing a feed reader of your own. Alternatively, you can use a Web service like My Yahoo!, Bloglines or Google Reader to access get the Feeds you need.
Live Titles
If you need to keep an eye of the status of an auction, a share price, an Amazon rating or a delivery, the new Live Titles feature in Firefox 2 will ensure you don’t miss a thing. Small enough to fit as a bookmark label, Live Titles are regularly updated summaries of the most important information on a Web page. As the information on the page gets updated, so does your Live Title.
Integrated Search
Searching is central to all our online lives. Firefox makes it a seamless experience with a Search Bar that comes pre-loaded with search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Answers.com, and Creative Commons. You can also select a new search engine from the Search bar menu at any time, and add search engines from hundreds of your favorite Web sites.
Pop-up Blocker
Irritating pop-ups can be the bane of your online life. Firefox’s sophisticated pop-up blocker lets you know when pop-ups are blocked via the information bar or icon on the lower right of the screen.
Accessibility For All
Firefox has been designed to ensure everyone has a better online experience - including those who are visually impaired. Firefox includes support for DHTML accessibility. Web developers can create pages that reduce the amount of tabbing required to navigate a document to minimize keystrokes for those with mobility disabilities. Firefox also includes support for Microsoft Active Accessibility, Microsoft’s accessibility API standard for Windows. This support allows Firefox to work with screen readers such as GW Micro’s Window-Eyes and Freedom Scientific’s JAWS.  Security Features
The Web opens up a world of unlimited possibilities, almost all of them good. But there are also risks out there. Firefox is crammed full of security features designed to keep you safe from spyware, hackers, scammers and spammers. Mozilla’s large and ever-vigilant army of security experts are constantly updating the security features to protect users and can keep you up-to-date with every threat. Firefox 2’s great security features include:
Phishing Protection
Identity Theft is a real threat to everyone online. The new Phishing Protection feature has been designed to give your financial information the ultimate protection and to safeguard you from identity theft at all times. If you come across a suspicious site , Firefox will alert you and offer to move you to a search site to ensure you end up at the Web site you were really looking for.
Open Source Protection
Firefox is an open source brower. As such it benefits from the expertise of the thousands of passionate, experienced developers and security experts working on Firefox’s behalf alll over the world. This open philosophy helps to ensure Firefox products are more secure and updated quickly. It also helps the Firefox community to get the best third party security scanning and evaluation tools available, thus bolstering security even further.
Automated Updates
Firefox is always working hard to ensure its users are running the most up to date security systems. Its update system always checks to see if you’re running the latest version, and notifies you when a quick and simple security update is available. Firefox's automated update system provides updates for Firefox on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux in over 40 different languages.
Spyware Protection
When it comes to spyware, Firefox’s promise is simple: it will never allow a Web site to download, install, or run programmes on your computer to which you have not explicitly agreed. Retaining control of your computer and its functionality is of paramount importance to you. So Firefox will keep you abreast of any downloads or software installations at all times.
Personal Security
There are times when we all need to erase our online history. Firefox allows you to clear all your private Web browsing data with just one click with its unique Clear Private Data tool. |
