What's new in Firefox 2.0

12.07.2006

If you visit a site that Firefox 2.0 deems to be a phishing site, this warning pops-up. Clicking "Get me out of here" opens your home page.

Firefox adds a built-in RSS and XML feed-viewing capability, which works like the Feedview extension available for earlier versions of Firefox and a similar feature in IE7. The new functionality lets you click on an RSS or XML link to see headlines and descriptions of the items in feeds. A Subscribe Now button lets you save the feed URL.

This new RSS and XML feed preview functionality creates a newspaperlike presentation of any RSS or XML feed link you click.

Even better, Firefox's simple but effective default feed dialog lets you choose which feed reader to save new feed subscriptions to. You can configure both feed-reading programs and Internet-based services in Firefox 2.0's simple "Choose a Feed Reader" dialog -- a well-implemented feature.