Bon Echo Alpha 2 Milestone releases

[+Cryton Subscriber²]

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 for bookmarks
  
• 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
  

Bon Echo Start Page: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho

Win: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonec...=win〈=en-US

Mac: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonec...=osx〈=en-US

Lin: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonec...inux〈=en-US

Release Notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a2.html

More: http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index...ha-2-milestone/

Also, there will now be a Bon Echo Alpha 3 release, perhaps in as little as two weeks, which will contain the DOM Storage stuff and the Anti-phishing safe-browser protection.

Edited May 13, 2006 by Cryton

[The Laughing Man]

Thx for the heads up, strange about the coding in your post tho, on this pc (my desktop) the links when you hover over them are all linked together but on my laptop they are not (same version ff + ext + theme) although on my desktop I can click the link for win version and it downloads but on my laptop it brings me to mozilla.org.

Edit: works now this version , has nice spell check and is pretty stable

Edited May 13, 2006 by Aq3e

[gigapixels Veteran]

Hmmm... Would I pretty much be using the same thing by getting 2.0 nightlies? They still say Alpha 1, so I'm a bit confused...

[+John. Subscriber¹]

Hmmm... Would I pretty much be using the same thing by getting 2.0 nightlies? They still say Alpha 1, so I'm a bit confused...

[Neil]

Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash

That is going to be useful.

[Lee]

Thanks, I'm going to try this out.

[supernova_00]

NOT FOR EVERYDAY USE!!! BTW Alpha 3 will be out May 25th.

[Crazysah]

I am going to use this and test it out.

[primexx]

When is the feature complete version coming out? Beta 1 or something?

[Rowain]

That is going to be useful.

It'd be damn near revolutionary if it wasn't already in Opera :shifty:

[L3thal Veteran]

It'd be damn near revolutionary if it wasn't already in Opera :shifty:

Well, it technically does exist in Firefox, in form of an extension.

[Mr. Jingles]

I'm liking the spell checker. Perhaps it'll slow down the anti-spelling forum posters.

The only problem is that it doesn't include words like Firefox in its dictionary.

[[idkfa]]

Spell checking in text boxes will be a blessing for the internet as a whole :woot:

[ShaneSparky_YYZ]

thanks for the update ;)

[MiamiGuy]

I tried it for a bit and it seems very nice. I'd keep it on my pc but it apparently interferes with the current firefox even though it installs in a different directory.

EDIT: Using MR Tech Local Install extension I managed to make bon echo work with almost all my extensions and themes. I'll now be using Bon Echo. :D

Edited May 13, 2006 by MiamiGuy

[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

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Spell checking in text boxes will be a blessing for the internet as a whole :woot:

And also grammatical errors, as well.

[giga Veteran]

That is going to be useful.

Praise the lawd! :woot:

[chrisgeleven]

So far Bon Echo Alpha 2 is working quite well for me. I love the spell checking feature, seems to work as advertised. Seems extremely fast (I read somewhere there has been major improvements in Javascript speed) on OS X.

Also like the fact that links that open new windows are instead sent to tabs. Works really slick and that's another extension I can get rid of.

Another really cool feature is the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds by having Firefox send it to your RSS reader application, an web site like Bloglines or Google Reader, or a Live Bookmark. The LiveLines extension does the web site part, but nothing else.

Safe Browsing (phishing protection) will be in Alpha 3.

[Randolph]

Can anyone confirm that adobe.com doesn't work using Vista 5381?

[Simon Veteran]

I have the start of a photo gallery going. It's a file tree now, but once I have a couple of screenies done, I'll give it a nice page.

http://r360.zapto.org/firefox2

And this thing is amazing! No more pasting front page news into MS Word! Cool!

Edited May 14, 2006 by simon360

[Toology]

- Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows

...

- Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash

...

- New search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines

- Improved support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds

...

I'm looking forward to those in the final release.

[dagamer34]

You think there will ever be an easy way to reopen a closed tab?

[MiamiGuy]

You think there will ever be an easy way to reopen a closed tab?

The tab mix plus extension has that option. It adds a recycle bin button like the one in Opera where you can see all your closed tabs. I'd be using it for Bon Echo except it disrupts the behavior of tabs with Bon Echo's. It's the easiest way I know of...it would really make a great feature in the next Firefox that's for sure.

[ViperAFK]

Workin Pretty Well, I like it alot better than alpha 1, and some of the memory leaks seem to be fixed. but in my opinion Opera 9 is better.

[chrisgeleven]

For those of you wondering what Microsummaries are, check out this thread on MozillaZine:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=416426

It looks like a really COOL feature.