Firefox 2.0 Beta RC Download Available

With the public Beta Release of Firefox 2.0 due on Tuesday July 11th, Mozilla.org has made available a Release Candidate nightly build for anxious testers to sink their teeth into. This build is said to finally be feature complete, although nightly builds are not tested as a general public release and bugs are highly possible.

With this latest release, Firefox now incorporates an integrated spell checker, and to counter IE7's latest offering, a new anti-phishing tool has been included. There have been other minor interface enhancements, and Firefox 2.0 includes horizontal scrolling for tabs, and a new options dialog. In addition, there have been a number of code changes made to incorporate fixes for some of the latest security flaws which have been found.

Versions for Windows, Mac's and Linux are available, but as of yet there is little support for many extensions and add-ons. Installing the nightly build will overwrite current settings and could cause themes and extensions to become inoperable. For those not willing to take the risk of a nightly build, the official Beta version will be released in a couple of days.

(direct ftp download)