Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and
testers download the Bon Echo Alpha 3 milestone release. It is
intended for testing purposes only.

Bon Echo Alpha 3 is the third developer milestone focused on testing
the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to
the platform scheduled for Firefox 2. Ongoing planning for Firefox 2
can be followed at the Bon Echo Planning Center
((http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox2), as well as in this newsgroup and
on irc.mozilla.org in #bonecho.

New features and changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

* 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 Bon Echo start page
((http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/index-2.0a3.html) has also
been changed to make it easier for testers to provide feedback and
report bugs.

Builds are available for testing here:

Windows (5.3 MB)
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonecho-alpha3&os=win&lang=en-US

Mac OS X Universal (17 MB)
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonecho-alpha3&os=osx&lang=en-US

Linux (8.8 MB)
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=bonecho-alpha3&os=linux&lang=en-US

Testers should also be sure to read the release notes
((http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/releases/2.0a3.html).

<i>Note: Please do not link directly to the download site. Instead we
strongly encourage you to link to this Bon Echo milestone announcement
at http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/05/26/bon-echo-alpha-3-milestone-released/
so that everyone will know what this milestone is, what they should
expect, and who should be downloading to participate in testing at
this stage of development.</i>

cheers,
mike
-- 
/ mike beltzner / user experience lead / mozilla corporation /