Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0
RC3 to the public. This is the last developmental milestone for Firefox 2.0
and work has already commenced on Firefox 3.0. The Mozilla Foundation is
confident of the quality of this RC3 according to comments
made by the company's VP for engineering, Mike Schroepfer. "If there
are no showstoppers, RC3 will be it," said Schroepfer.
Firefox 2.0 offers a wealth of new features compared to its
1.5.0.x predecessors. Changes include an updated user interface, built-in anti-phishing,
inline spell checking, improved tabbed browsing and search capabilities,
browser session recovery, and an updated add-ons/extensions manager.
Now that Firefox 2.0 is done, the developers are turning
their eyes towards Firefox 3.0. The Mozilla Foundation is taking suggestions
from community members on what features to add to the next iteration of the
browser. "Anybody who has a good idea and wants to participate can enter
their comments on the wiki page. We're just looking for as wide a range of
feedback as people want to give. We've generally tried to solicit ideas in the
past. It's part of how we work in general," said Schroepfer.