Bon Echo Alpha 3 Start Page
This version is now obsolete. For your own safety and security, please install an updated version.
Known Issues
- Extensions
- Extensions installed under previous versions of Firefox may be incompatible with Bon Echo Alpha 3.
See the Release Notes for other known issues
Changes in this Development Milestone
There is a lot in Bon Echo Alpha 3 that we need you to play with and give us feedback on:
- 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 Burning Edge has a more complete yet unofficial list of notable changes since Firefox 1.5.