Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download this Alpha 2 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only.

Bon Echo Alpha 2 is the second developer milestone on the path to Firefox 2. This milestone is 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.

Changes in this milestone that require feedback include:

    * Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows
    * Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behaviour is slightly different
    * Inline spell checking in text boxes
    * Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
    * Search suggestions now appear in the search box auto-complete for Google and Yahoo!
    * New search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
    * Improved support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
    * New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
    * New Add-Ons manager improves the user interface for managing extensions and themes
    * Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
    * New search service that supports Sherlock and OpenSearch engines
    * Support for SVG text using svg:textPath

The Bon Echo start page have also been changed to make it easier for testers to provide feedback and report bugs.

Builds are available for testing here:

    * Windows
    * Mac OS X (17 MB)
    * Linux (9 MB)

Testers should also be sure to read the release notes.

all the new features sound good,   will have to give it a wirl

Yer i think it is pretty cool I think the spell checker is absolutely awesome

Fishy's post on how "This is not a news syndication forum"

The concerned developers who use such versions already know about it so there is no need imo to post such news everytime.
Even tho you did link to the download directly, i just felt it needed to be pointed out.

Sounds Good especially the Automatic restoration and the spell checker!!

if i install this will it uninstall my version of firefox?

Nope it won't

This is pretty cool hi, I'm really liking the spell checker!