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The good news is that the interface is basically the same and the browser is "still lean, mean, fast, and clean." Improvements include being able to drag-n-drop tabs to reorder them and faster navigation due to "intelligent caching" of some pages already visited.
But the most important Firefox tuneups are under the hood. Application and extension updates are now pushed to the background. This relieves the burden of having to upgrade the application and extensions manually, as with Firefox 1.0, and ensures that the latest security patches are applied. Mozilla will have the ability to shut down holes as soon as they are found by pushing security patches to the browser. Many of these updates will be, according to the Mozilla Organization, less than 500KB, so they'll be unobtrusive (if noticeable at all).
Excellent news which will no doubt contribute to the continued growth of the product (23% of the page views of this blog are from Firefox as IE drops to just under 70%).
Blog post #5636 in category
Geek Stuff
posted 23 November 05
