Firefox 2.0

I recently upgraded to Firefox 2.0. It's got some cool new features. Several of which fix some of my complaints about Microsoft in a previous blog post.

Some of the highlights:

• session restore - from their site: "Losing your place while you’re doing things on the Web is a pain. Now, with Session Restore, if Firefox has to restart or closes when it comes back you’ll pick up exactly where you left off. The windows and tabs you were using, the text you typed into forms, and the in-progress downloads you had running will all be restored. You can even set Firefox 2 to always restore your previous session instead of loading a home page, so you’ll never lose your place again." It even went back to the place 1/2 way down the page where I was reading when I closed the browser!

• can be set to have new pages open in a new tab, instead of a new window (or in a new window if you'd prefer)

• allows you to clear private data when you close firefox (not a new feature, but one that i like anyway)
  

• list of recently closed pages in case you accidentally close a tab you didn't mean to
  

• arrow at far right opens list of all open windows, so when too many tabs are open to really read what's in the tab bar of any of them, you don't have to page through them all to find the one you want. you can also open a side panel with old pages listed by when you last viewed them - yesterday, 2 days ago, etc. or sort the view by site, date, most visited, or last visited
  

• spell check

a full list is at http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features