Freeloader Friday Download of the Week

Browser Bonanza

Opera (recently made free), Firefox and Flock have all released new versions, and they all come with great new features from feed handling to eye candy.

Firefox 2.0b1

New in 2.0:

• Inline Spell Check (not shown) checks spelling in input boxes
• New Feed Interface supports different feed readers including Google Reader and Bloglines
• Search While You Type suggestions
• Close Tab Buttons on the tab

Opera 9

New in 9:

• Widgets! Cool, but I wish you cold resize them
• Integrated Bittorrent
• Hover-over Tab Previews show you thumbnails and page info
• Improved Richtext Formatting

Flock beta 1

New in .7:

• Drag and Drop Flickr integration
• Search Auto-complete from history, bookmarks and more
• RSS News View with a newspaper style layout and nice feed management
• Better Support for Firefox Extensions

Wow. Unless you're still hung on IE 5, there's at least one cool new browser to try out. Have fun.

Brian

  


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