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[inspic=19,left,,0]Firefox 2.0 was officially released to the public on October 24. If you’ve been using Firefox as your bowser you already know how cool it is. If Firefox is new to you, you’ll be happy to know it’s one of the best, most stable web browsers around and this new release makes it even more secure.

Firefox 2.0 now sports new crisp, clean graphics for easy and eye pleasing browser navigation. It also has some new tab features. The older version had only one place to close tabs located to the far right of the browser window at tab level. The new version has the tab closer located on each tab (similar to Safari). In addition, you can now use the new left and right tabs to horizontally scroll through your open tabs. There is also a new vertical scrolling tab located to the far right of the tab locations. This may not seem like a very exciting new feature, but it does make it easier to manage your tabs. There is even a new feature that lets you recover recently closed tabs. This is very useful if you’ve ever closed a tab by mistake or if something caused Firefox to close and lose any open tabs.

Firefox 2.0 features new anti-phishing protection as well. This feature is meant to protect users against fake sites that try to trick users into entering their personal information (passwords, bank accounts, etc.) on a site that looks legitimate.

Unlike the latest release of Internet Explorer 7, Firefox can be used by Mac, Linux and Windows systems. As usual, the Firefox 2.0 upgrade for me was exceedingly fast and painless. If you haven’t done so already, you can link from here to upgrade your Firefox. There are also plenty of add-ons to extend and customize this slim browser.