Features of Firefox

Salient features of Firefox

1. Firefox 1.5

   • Tabbed browsing improvements
   • Site-specific options
   • Extension system enhancements
   • Updated browser appearance, including an improved default theme
   • Find Toolbar, Software Update, Search enhancements
   • Accessibility compliance
   • Session Restore
   • Download resuming across browser sessions, detection of signed executables
   • Improvements to the search service
   • Anti-phishing features
   • Cairo as the rendering layer instead of GDI+

2. Firefox 2.0

   • New Windows installer using the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS)
   • New anti-phishing features
   • Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behaviour is slightly different
   • A History of recently closed tabs / Ability to "Undo" closed tabs
   • Automatic restoration of the user's browsing session if there is a crash
   • Inline spell checking in text boxes
   • Search suggestions now appear in the search box auto-complete for Google and Yahoo!
   • New search service that supports Sherlock and OpenSearch engines
   • Combining the extensions and themes managers into an "Add-ons" manager
   • Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
   • New search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
   • Improved support for previewing and subscribing to Web feeds (see RSS)
   • New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
   • Searching in input fields
   • Support for scalable vector graphics (SVG) text using svg:textPath
   • Client-side session and persistent storage