Bon Echo Alpha 1

March 22nd, 2006

More or less everybody has been mentioning Bon Echo Alpha 1 (or Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1) today which can be downloaded from the Mozilla site. It's called Bon Echo and not Firefox because it's not intended for end users but developers.

Still even for developers, I strongly recommend not bothering to try it; there's nothing particularly new or great in it - no big rendering engine changes, barely finished features and small aesthetic changes.

I'd strongly recommend waiting for at least a beta version and ideally a release candidate before trying Bon Echo.

Mike Beltzner writes a bit about Firefox 2.0's aggressive schedule and why this alpha is very unpolished.