Bon Echo Alpha 1 Milestone
Please Note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download this Alpha 1 milestone release, as it is intended for testing purposes only.
Bon Echo Alpha 1 is the first of many developer milestones on the path to Firefox 2. This milestone is focused on testing the backend infrastructure supporting our new Places functionality. Ongoing planning for Firefox 2 can be followed on the public Wiki at: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2.
Changes in this milestone that require feedback include:
- Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
- New data storage layer for bookmarks and history (using SQLlite)
- 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 been changed to make it easier for testers to provide feedback and report bugs.
Builds are available for testing at:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/bonecho/alpha1/
Release notes:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a1.html
Note to Bloggers, Press and Others: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we strongly encourage you to link to this Bon Echo milestone announcement so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what they should expect, and who should be downloading to participate in testing at this stage of development.