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, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning 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 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)
  


• Mac OS X Universal Binary (17 MB)
  


• Linux (8.8 MB)