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Visual Refresh:Firefox 2's theme and user interface have been updated to improveusability without altering the familiarity of the browsing experience.For instance, toolbar buttons now glow when you hover over them. Wewill continue to improve the look and feel throughout the releasecandidate process.

Built-in phishing protection: Phishing Protectionwarns users when they encounter suspected Web forgeries, and offers toreturn the user to their home page. Phishing Protection is turned on bydefault, and works by checking sites against either a local or onlinelist of known phishing sites. This list is automatically downloaded andregularly updated when the Phishing Protection feature is enabled.

Enhanced search capabilities:Search term suggestions will now appear as users type in the integratedsearch box when using the Google, Yahoo! or Answers.com search engines.A new search engine manager makes it easier to add, remove and re-ordersearch engines, and users will be alerted when Firefox encounters awebsite that offers new search engines that the user may wish toinstall.

Improved tabbed browsing: By default, Firefox will open links in new tabs instead of new windows, and each tab will now have a close tabbutton. Power users who open more tabs than can fit in a single windowwill see arrows on the left and right side of the tab strip that letthem scroll back and forth between their tabs. The History menu willkeep a list of recently closed tabs, and a shortcut lets users quicklyre-open an accidentally closed tab.

Resuming your browsing session:The Session Restore feature restores windows, tabs, text typed informs, and in-progress downloads from the last user session. It will beactivated automatically when installing an application update orextension, and users will be asked if they want to resume theirprevious session after a system crash.

Previewing and subscribing to Web feeds: Users can decide how to handle Web feeds (like this one), either subscribing to them via a Web service or in a standalone RSS reader, or adding them as Live Bookmarks.My Yahoo!, Bloglines and Google Reader come pre-loaded as Web serviceoptions, but users can add any Web service that handles RSS feeds.

Inline spell checking: A new built-in spell checker enables users to quickly check the spelling of text entered into Web forms (like this one) without having to use a separate application.

Live Titles: When a website offers a microsummary(a regularly updated summary of the most important information on a Webpage), users can create a bookmark with a "Live Title". Compact enoughto fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide moreuseful information about pages than static page titles, and areregularly updated with the latest information. There are several websites that can be bookmarked with Live Titles, and even more add-ons to generate Live Titles for other popular websites.

Improved Add-ons manager: The new Add-ons manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes, combining them both in a single tool.

JavaScript 1.7: JavaScript 1.7 is a language update introducing several new featuressuch as generators, iterators, array comprehensions, let expressions,and destructuring assignments. It also includes all the features ofJavaScript 1.6.

Extended search plugin format: The Firefox search engine format now supports search engine plugins written in Sherlock and OpenSearch formats and allows search engines to provide search term suggestions.

Updates to the extension system: The extension system has been updated to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions.

Client-side session and persistent storage:New support for storing structured data on the client side, to enablebetter handling of online transactions and improved performance whendealing with large amounts of data, such as documents and mailboxes.This is based on the WHATWG specification for client-side session and persistent storage.

SVG text: Support for the svg:textpath specification enables SVG text to follow a curve or shape.

New Windows installer: Based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System, the new Windows installer resolves many long-standing issues.