Just wanted to mention that I’ve just installed Bon Echo Alpha 2 (which is the code name given to what will become Firefox 2), and I can report that it feels damned fast. In fact, I must say that it’s the first time I’ve noticed a significant increase in such things as rendering speed and tab switching when changing from one browser to another. A very enjoyable feeling, maybe not completely unlike that of getting off a long bus ride and getting into a car. I can even live with the fact that most of my extensions aren’t updated yet.

If it helps me increase the frequency with which this blog is updated is another matter, though…

Update: I just had my first crash, and got acquainted with the “session restore” feature. Nice one. Remembered all the pages I had loaded in my tabs. And when I opened the Windows task manager to kill it a few more times I noticed that memory use looked much lower that the last version. And another feature worth mentioning is the context menu option that sends highlighted text to the search engine currently selected in the search box. Probably something that’s been availible as an extension for ages, but I’ve never thought of how useful it could be.

Update 2 (May 27th): Bon Echo Alpha 3 released. A few months, betas and RCs left to the final release of Firefox 2 in August, but it’s really shaping up now, feature wise. I must also add that I really like the name Bon Echo for a browser. Too bad it can’t be more than a project code-name.