FireFox 2.0 The Browser for education!
Firefox 2.0 has recently been released and under the hood there are some marked improvements. You will not see as drastic of change as that of Microsoft's IE 7; however Microsoft was playing a major catch up game with Firefox and other modern browsers. Even though the face did not change much there are some cool new features.
My personal favorite is the built in spell check. I was constantly copy and pasting information for forms into word to check the spelling, not we have a very powerful spell check built into the browser, so there is no longer a need to fire up Word just to make sure your spelling is Correct.
Here is a brief list of some of the new features:
Even prior to the update Firefox was my choice for student computers, and now it has solidified a strong lead for use in this category.
My personal favorite is the built in spell check. I was constantly copy and pasting information for forms into word to check the spelling, not we have a very powerful spell check built into the browser, so there is no longer a need to fire up Word just to make sure your spelling is Correct.
Here is a brief list of some of the new features:
Improved Tabbed Browsing
Spell Checking
Search Suggestions
Session Restore
Web Feeds (RSS)
Live Titles
Integrated Search
Live Bookmarks
Even prior to the update Firefox was my choice for student computers, and now it has solidified a strong lead for use in this category.
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