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the iceweasel has landed

After a little bit of waiting, Icewesal is finally available in Debian (well it's in unstable at least). I had been waiting to try out some of the new features of `2.0'. In particular, one very useful feature is the `recently closed tabs' menu, which is basically a way to get back those pages you accidentally closed.



The search engine drop down menu in Firefox 1.5 was a mess, no way to remove the default engines or, to easily remove the ones you no longer use. I don't need a Yahoo search or MSN or Amazon or ask.com and thankfully now all your search engines can be easily managed.



Another nifty feature is search suggestions as you type, at least right now it seems pretty neat, I am not sure how practical it will turn out to be though. The browser can now also correct spelling mistakes as you type.

One thing that irks me about the pop-up blocker that still has not changed is the inability to blacklist a site. Lets take cnn.com as an example, it has always thrown a pop-up at me, every time I visited (I get my USA news elsewhere now, but thats not the point) FireWeasel would offer to show me the pop-up, or, add cnn.com to a list of sites allowed to display pop-ups. Obviously you need some sites to be allowed, Banking sites for example. But why it does not offer me the opportunity to never be bothered by a pop-up from cnn.com again is beyond me.

There are quite a bit of improvements detailed in the release notes. I am happy that despite facing a difficult decision, the Debian developers decided to choose a resolution that not only serves the projects best interest but those of its users as well.

One day I might even like the name they chose.