Due to some serious work by the regular BeZilla team of Sergei ("fyysik"), Doug ("tigerdog") and Fredrik ("tqh"), and the recently returned Niels ("nielx"), the prospects of a stable and well-supported Firefox 2.0 for BeOS have received a major boost recently.

Generally, work on Firefox and Seamonkey on BeOS is concentrated on the trunk, meaning that fixes generally do not reach stable releases until two versions down - for example, current trunk code will be in Firefox 3.0 and not 2.0. However, Niels and the others have spent some serious time getting fixes backported to the Firefox 2.0 branch, with their tracker bug showing 36 bugs marked as needing fixing for a BeOS 2.0 release, with only 9 remaining unfixed in the 2.0 branch. Some of these are rather elderly issues unfixed on the trunk, or are effectively unfixable on BeOS, or are trivial issues.

On the face of it, Firefox 2.0 for BeOS should be a stable browser, capapble of using the majority of Firefox extensions without any hackery, and most importantly, should be easily usable as your default browser on BeOS due to the work on nativity done recently.