Bon Echo Alpha 3 Milestone Released
Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Bon Echo Alpha 3 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.
Bon Echo Alpha 3 is the third developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 2. Ongoing planning for Firefox 2 can be followed at the Bon Echo Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #bonecho.
New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
* Built in Anti-Phishing protection.
* Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google and Yahoo!
* Support for client-side session and persistent storage.
And please continue to test out these other features which are new from previous Bon Echo releases:
* Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
* Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
* Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
* New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
* Inline spell checking in text boxes
* Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
* New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes
* 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
The Bon Echo start page has also been changed to make it easier for testers to provide feedback and report bugs.
Builds are available for testing here:
* Windows (5.3 MB)
* Mac OS X Universal Binary (17 MB)
* Linux (8.8 MB)