Firefox 2.0?

[Brandon]

The Mozilla Foundation is close to releasing the first alpha edition of the next Firefox, the group's Web site announced, with a Tuesday unveiling likely.

Firefox 2.0, which at one point Mozilla officials said would debut in Alpha 1 format by the end of February, may appear as early as Tuesday. The browser, which will stress bookmark, tab, and extension changes, is in early development, and is scheduled for a final rollout in the third quarter.

According to entries on the Mozilla Developer Center blog and minutes of a status meeting a week ago, Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 -- also called "BonEcho" -- may release Tuesday. Or Friday.

The agenda for a late-morning status meeting Tuesday, however, points toward an imminent release. All that remains to do is to finish two Web pages before pushing out the alpha.

The main purpose of BonEcho is to test Places, a new feature that combines bookmarks and browsing history.

True to its alpha status, BonEcho will be more sketch of the final Firefox 2.0 than an accurate image. "The UI [user interface] is not anywhere near final," the development team warned last week.

Other features planned for later editions include "undo close tab," which has been pushed to a second alpha, as had an on-the-fly spelling checker. The latter has been postponed because of difficulty getting it to also work with Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client.

Another feature touted by a Mozilla engineer in February, a centralized system for blocking malicious or uncooperative extensions, made it into alpha 1 at the last minute, notes from the March 14 meeting show.

Earlier reports over the weekend that BonEcho had actually released were incorrect, a Mozilla official said Sunday. Asa Dotzler, who runs Mozilla's testing program, chastised bloggers and others for hyping a not-released alpha 1 found on the group's servers.

"When we make a new release, we'll say so," wrote Dotzler on his blog. "Please don't report new releases because someone checks in a change to the user agent or similar. If we're actually doing a release, we'll announce it."

On Monday, Mozilla also rolled out the first public edition of Lightning, the renamed calendar add-on for Thunderbird. Lightning 0.1 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X from the foundation's site.

When BonEcho (Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1) releases, it should be available here [site not yet live].

Firefox 2.0's rival, Microsoft Explorer 7, received a refresh of its Beta 2 Preview edition Monday.
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I hope its released has to be better then Opera.

[moose]

Yes yes, they even have an OFFICIAL alpha 1 release.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bone...ses/2.0a1.html

Intersting stuff. Can't wait for the finalized version

[randomize]

I am not so keen on the firefox browser.

I think the color scheme of it is rubbish and .....

Can't think of anything else to say!

[noerrorsfound]

I am not so keen on the firefox browser.

I think the color scheme of it is rubbish and .....

Can't think of anything else to say!

By default, the color scheme of Firefox is the same as your OS's. Lots of themes are available too and you can easily make your own. Don't judge browsers by their looks when they're clearly superior to others. Opera is good too, but it's too bloated. Internet Explorer on Windows is just horrible.

[Spartan Erik]

ill wait until the public release of ff 2.0, i like my browser the way it is and it would be a shame for 2.0 to not be compatible with all my extensions and themes

[stealth_thunder]

I found something else beside firefox , but I not too sure how many know this its called Avant Browser
http://www.avantbrowser.com/

It makes using of Internet Explorer Settings and Security, there's many features and it runs faster than Mozilla firefox.

Firefox 2.0 seems to be interesting, especially their Security Online Protection when you enter to some highly protected transactions contents normally Internet Explorer will only use SSL 128 bits. but firefox makes use of the AES 256 bits security.

I hope this help people to look out on both avant browser and firefox since both are free to use.

thanks for the informations.

[Cynical]

I might just have to try this new FireFox when it comes out, hopefully this one will work on my computer.

Opera is good too, but it's too bloated.

I use Opera, and it IS bloated if you use the default settings. I've removed most of the buttons and now my copy is less "bloated" than IE 6 even.

[randomize]

I see what you mean when, you shouldnt judge a browser on its colors.

However, Im using IE or my own ISP's browser, which is based on the internet explorer engine, but has tabs!!

So to be quite honest with you, i have no use of firefox, to me it is just another browser on the market!

[stealth_thunder]

The previous firefox had some kind a bug with flash actionscript, where both settings must be edited exactly in the same directory in order to view flash in firefox

<param name="movie" value="images/xxxxswf" />
<embed src="images/xxxx.swf" 

Does firefox alpha 2.0 fix this hassle ??