Tag: BON ECHO

According to the Bon Echo (FF 2 project code name) project page, Firefox 2 is slated to come out of beta with the first release candidate a 3:00pm EDT PDT today. That's a little less than an hour four hours from right now. Head over there and be one of the first in line to put the next generation of everyone's favorite fox through it's final paces. If you do, please make sure to submit those ...

Mozilla has released a 2nd alpha version of Firefox 2.0. As usual, this release is not recommended for any kind of serious use, but if you're salivating at some of the new version's features, check out what has been incorporated in this 2nd development milestone: Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behavior is slightly ...

Josiah Cole at Oomny, a very odd little gem of a blog, has posted an interesting comparison of the memory usage of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 ("Bon Echo") and Internet Explorer 7 beta 2, both of which were released this week? The results are a little surprising. Firefox consistently outperforms IE, using slightly more than half the memory for single pages. Cole notes, however, that IE's memory ...

While a maybe-it's-official alpha version of Firefox 2.0 showed up late last week, today we finally have a definitely-official version. Mozilla has put  up a download site for the official release of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1, codename "Bon Echo." On the list of changes are new tabbed browsing features, a new storage system for bookmarks and history, and improvements to the extension and ...