Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Bon Echo Alpha 3 available

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J-M
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27 May, 2006 6:39 pm Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Bon Echo Alpha 3 available [sdp=73776]  

Bon Echo Alpha 3 milestone was released on Friday. Summary about the remarkable changes was listed at MozillaZine:

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This latest milestone of the code that will eventually become Mozilla Firefox 2.0 adds new anti-phishing features and includes support for client-side session and persistent storage as specified by the WHATWG.


Link to posting: http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=8671

Detailed Release Notes document is available as well.

Direct download link to Mozilla.org FTP server is here.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fi; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

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Fulvio
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27 May, 2006 8:43 pm [sdp=73782]  

I don't like to install any preliminary builds, but got the complete nightly zip file. It would not update via the incremental (it did for nine days, but, then it quit).
Although I did installations with the help Mr Tech Local Install, three extentions were deemed incompatible, i.e. forecastfox enhanced, colorful tabs, prefbar and Firefox Menu Buttons. I use the latter only because I want some direct connection to mail which is missing in the new browsers. I uninstalled the offending extentions, and then reinstalled them, making them all compatible. I, probably, could have gotten away without reinstalling, but had not found the setting. Otherwise, I have no way to judge this build. The changes may be remarkable, but I must not be sophisticated to appreciate them, yet.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060527 BonEcho/2.0a3

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Antony
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27 May, 2006 9:32 pm [sdp=73783]  

Bon Echo Alpha 3's preference panel for anti-phishing:


I don't have any active phishing emails in my Mail.app's Inbox. (all those phishing links still in my Inbox are expired.) Updates on how goo the anti-phishing will be added once I receive some anti-phishing for testing.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3

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Fulvio
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28 May, 2006 10:33 am [sdp=73791]  

FF3.0a1 (Minefield) has had the feature. It was the feature which had not made 2.0a2. So in this respect, Bon Echo and Minefield are on even terms. I am still wondering why they are developing the two browsers, almost side by side. I guess that we will see when there will be a divergence, or whatever. At this pont, I can barely tell them apart.

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Antony
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03 Jun, 2006 8:48 am [sdp=73988]  

I tested with a phishing email (Mid America Bank). And the bad news, the Anti-phishing did not work.

I believe the official website of Mid America Bank should be http://www.midamericabank.com/

The link in the email was http://www.seosiner.com/.

I tested with both settings (using a locally stored list, and by asking Google) in preference panel of Bon Echo Alpha 3. No indications of phishing/spoofing at all.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1a3) Gecko/20060526 BonEcho/2.0a3

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