Bon Echo Alpha 3 released with anti-phishing

SillyDog701 Forums member Juha-Matti Laurio reported that Mozilla Corporation has released the third preview release of Firefox 2.0 with anti-phishing build-in, at this moment known as "Bon Echo", as Bon Echo Alpha 3 earlier today.

Notable new features 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, microsummaries for bookmarks, as well as many other new features and bug fixes from Bon Echo Alpha 2.

Bon Echo Alpha 3 release notes:

There is a lot in Bon Echo Alpha 3 that we need you to play with and give us feedback on:

• 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

Bon Echo Alpha 2 was released on 13 May. Bon Echo Alpha 1 was released on 22 March.

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