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I’ve been using the new Firefox 2.0 Alpha and it’s worked really well so far. I’ve found that Firefox Alpha’s are much more like Betas. Pretty darn solid. I was using a previous Alpha for the last 6 months with great success.

Here’s the offical short list of new stuff:

• Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
• Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
• Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
• New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
• Inline spell checking in text boxes
• Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
• New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes
• Extended search plugin format
• Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
• Support for SVG text using svg:textPath

It’s probably just me, but it seems to load faster. Tabs are much improved–no more need for tabbed browsing extensions like TabMixPlus. The memory link is still there and I haven’t tested enough to know if it’s any better.

All my extensions worked when I put the 1 line config workaround. Go to
“about:config” in Firefox and right click to add a new string “app.extensions.version”.
Give it a value of “1.5″. This will trick Firefox into using all
your 1.5 extensions in 2.0.

Give it a whirl if you’re up for it. To give you a sense of the quality, I installed it for my mom when I was back home last week. When was the last time you installed an Alpha for your mom?

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