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Mozilla Corporation will release the first beta of its Firefox 2.0 browser tomorrow.

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) can be downloaded from Mozilla’s FTP site, although the official Beta 1 won’t be released until July 11, according to notes published by the open-source developer.

The Mozilla Firefox Beta 1 features improvements that include close buttons on all tabs, a search plug-in manager to more easily add and remove engines from the search box and a browser restore feature that recovers the browser and all tabs if the application crashes or freezes. Other enhancements range from an integrated spell-checker to an anti-phishing tool that warns users when they surf to a site blacklisted by Mozilla. Very cool indeed.

In other news, Mozilla is also prepping a security update to the current Firefox, which will be labeled “1.5.0.5.” The update is scheduled to ship in approximately two weeks.

Did you know that Firefox 1.5 (Windows version) is also the first browser to meet United States federal government requirements that software be easily accessible to users with physical impairments? That’s just another reason for you to make the switch to Firefox.

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