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:
Testers should also be sure to read the release notes.
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