One rural IA librarian just shared the story of a patron who was looking to buy a used car. The patron found the listing, took the seller’s phone number, Googled it, found the seller’s address, and then, using Google Maps, pulled up a satellite image of the house attempting to see if he could see the car parked in the seller’s driveway. The patron was ultimately unsuccessful, but it’s a very creative use of the avilable resources.
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Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1
13
Jul 2006
Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 1 has been released. I’m actively considering not installing it as I use many of my extensions daily and don’t want to loose them. So, don’t expect much from me on the beta in the immediate future. Here’s the official list of new features:
- Built in Phishing Protection.
- Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com
- Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
- Ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs
- Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
- Inline spell checking in text boxes
- Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
- New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
- Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
- New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes
- New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
- Support for JavaScript 1.7
- Support for client-side session and persistent storage
- Extended search plugin format
- Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
- Support for SVG text using svg:textPath
Category: beta, firefox, wikis, windows
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