Mozilla Firefox 2 (Bon Echo) Alpha 1 Available For Download
Lots of “BORROWING” from IE7 and Opera.
The new version is expected to offer an updated user interface, new history and bookmark system, search, extension, RSS and security enhancements over the current stable version of Firefox.
The alpha 1 release includes initial attempts at a revised extension manager. One of the aspects of the new extension manager is something called “extension blocklisting,” which will block “bad” extensions from running.
RSS content detection and feed subscription also see a change in Bon Echo. Currently Firefox 1.5 users are alerted to feeds with Mozilla’s RSS icon (a feature call “Live Bookmarks”), which coincidentally is the same icon that is used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.
The Bon Echo RSS implementation is supposed to make subscription and actual feed reading simpler for average users.
The new bookmarks and history system, called “places,” get a new data storage layer utilizing SQLite. According to a Mozilla wiki entry on the feature enhancement the revisions have the objectives of improving access to History and Bookmarks, as well as trying to make it easier for people to bookmark pages.
There is a lot more to come in the Alpha 2 release.
Download:Firefox 2 Alpha 1 5.0 MB (Windows) — Release Notes (Caution: Alpha Built wont be much stable one- stable final release expected in August of this year. )
Yes there are problems with certain extensions.
You can force most of the ‘incompatible’ FireFox extensions to load up and work in Bon Echo, using Nightly Tester Tools. There is no guarantee that an extension will work correctly, but most of the times they will.
IL, welcome to the unsatisfied club. There have been a few of us who have expressed dissatisfaction on how things run, but well...
Maybe you'd make a difference!! ;)
Don’t count on it, i am way too n00b to make a difference. I have read your previous posts, why don’t you weekly put some tutorials and informatory articles regarding networking and any other stuff that you are more comfortable with.
Most of the things are coming from MYIE2 project's browser Maxthon. Check www.maxthon.com
I am using it for last three years, 95% of so called new features in IE7 are in Maxthon for last three years atleast when IE6 came out with plain dumb interface. So far Maxthon is the trend setter and taking browsing experience to the next level.
I would again like to point out another improvement in Bon Echo. It did not slow down my system, as FireFox used to do, after I take it out my system from Stand-By mode (FireFox launched and in memory).
