Bon Echo Alpha 2 Milestone releases


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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 by Cryton
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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 by Aq3e

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 by MiamiGuy
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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.

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.

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 by simon360

- 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.

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.

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.

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