In addition to providing the anti-phishing alerts, the new beta will let surfers add RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds to their browser with a single mouse click, and will simplify the process of designating a set of tabs as their home page.
They would also like to "solve the information overload problem" common to heavy email users by looking into implementing a tabbed solution similar to the one used by web browsers such as Firefox, Opera and some third-party Internet Explorer add-ons.
Last month, Microsoft confirmed speculation that it would offer tabbed browsing in the upcoming IE 7. The feature - long offered by IE competitors such as Firefox, Opera and Safari, and by browser shells built to run on top of IE - is one of many...
Doug Turner, the Mozilla engineer heading up the Minimo project, said: "This may be the first handheld browser to have both tabbed browsing and web services support. Mozilla's browser for small devices, Minimo, reached a milestone, as a pre-release...
The new browser also includes tabbed browsing and a search box on a more streamlined toolbar - concepts that should be familiar to users of Firefox, a rival browser distributed by the Mozilla Foundation.
It has added support for web standards, RSS web feeds and tabbed browsing. Microsoft is encouraging even Firefox users to install the IE update, promising them that it won't make IE the default browser - or even ask them if they want to switch.