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The second Bon Echo Alpha Milestone
Bon Echo Alpha 2 is the second developer milestone on the path to Firefox 2. This milestone is focused on testing the core functionality provided by many of or 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 (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2), as well as in the mozilla.dev.planning newsgroup and on irc.mozilla.org in #bonecho. Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download this Alpha 2 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only. Changes in this milestone that require feedback include: * Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows * Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behaviour is slightly different * Inline spell checking in text boxes * Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash * Search suggestions now appear in the search box auto-complete for Google and Yahoo! * New search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines * Improved support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds * New Microsummaries feature * New Add-Ons manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes * Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions * New search service that supports Sherlock and OpenSearch engines * 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 to the mozilla.feedback newsgroup. Builds are available for testing here: Windows (5.3 MB) http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonecho-alpha2&o... Mac OS X (17 MB) http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonecho-alpha2&o... Linux (9 MB) http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonecho-alpha2&o... Testers should also be sure to read the Release Notes which have been posted at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a2.html Note: 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. Enjoy! --- Christopher Beard Mozilla Corporation cbeard@mozilla.com 650.903.0800 x201 650.903.0875 http://cbeard.typepad.com (Log in to post comments)
The second Bon Echo Alpha Milestone Posted May 15, 2006 16:37 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] The new thing isn't SVG text; it's text on a path. SVG text has been around since 1.5.
The second Bon Echo Alpha Milestone Posted May 15, 2006 18:11 UTC (Mon) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] It's interesting that 1) SVG rendering on Windows doesn't seem to have improved much over Firefox 1.5, and 2) SVG speed and quality is still much better with Firefox on Linux than on Windows. I guess we can credit this to the recent work in X.org/Cairo? Anyway, it is always nice to see Linux graphics top the other platforms.
"automatic restoration of your browsing session" - a good thing? Posted May 16, 2006 20:09 UTC (Tue) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link] Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash So, if I visited a site that caused Firefox to crash, then the next time I open Firefox it will go straight back to that site and crash again?
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