Who is testing the bon echo firefox?

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Hi folks,

I am typing this thread inside my pre-relaese 0.3.0.0 pre-Update to Flock 0.7 pre (Cardinal) Pocket Flock version. So testing it since it was launched. It has some nice new features.
But there is also a test version for the Firefox Browser 2.0
also known as the bon echo firefox, see:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/
Who of us is testing this?

polonus

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I’ve been using Bon Echo since May 16th
The latest versio is now 3.

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What would be interesting would be what extensions become incompatible with the Firefox 2/Bon Echo Firefox.

Going from version 1.0 to 1.5 killed a number of my extensions and it took a long time for the compatible version of the extension to be updated. This left me with a less than flexible user experience, losing some of your favourite extensions, some of them security related made this even worse. The same to a lessor extent happened with the 1.5.0.1 and later updates.

I know this time I won’t be jumping on the firefox/bon echo bandwagon too soon and let the broken extension issues to be resolved by their developers.

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This left me with a less than flexible user experience, losing some of your favourite extensions, some of them security related made this even worse.
On my system, I'm not having any extension compatibilities. What ever I had installed for FF is now running under Bon Echo. I've gained by making the upgrade but, it is still a beta and there fore still under development. Each user has to make his/her own decision whether or not to use a program still being developed. Some of us are more adventurous than others. :)