Mozilla Releases Next-Gen Firefox Alpha

Intended as a developer preview, is released for testing purposes only Statring today, the first developer previews of the next generation of Mozilla’s Firefox, codenamed “Bon Echo”, are available from Firefox’s Bon Echo site…

Intended as a developer preview, is released for testing purposes only

Statring today, the first developer previews of the next generation of Mozilla’s Firefox, codenamed “Bon Echo”, are available from Firefox’s Bon Echo site. Writing in the “stuff-to-hack-on” dept on Slashdot, correspondent Cmdr Taco quotes one Mini-Geek describing some of the new features:

Changes to tabbed browsing behavior, New data storage layer for bookmarks and history (using SQLlite), 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

And an important caveat from the Bon Echo Alpha 1 page:

Bon Echo Alpha 1 is a developer preview release of our next generation Firefox browser and it is being made available for testing purposes only. Bon Echo Alpha 1 is intended for web application developers and our testing community. Current users of Mozilla Firefox 1.x should not use Bon Echo Alpha 1.

If you are a developer, though, and your system meets these requirements, then you might want a poke at it. Download it from here.

22 March 2006