http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/01/b...-alpha-on.html

The first alpha version of Mozilla Firefox 2 codenamed "Bon Ocho" will be released on February 10, 2006 while the final public release of Firefox 2.0 is expected in middle of this year.

Bon Ocho, the Firefox 2 code name is taken from a public park - Bon Echo Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada that translates to "good echo".

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 will have the following new features / improvements:

* Provide an easy access to History and Bookmarks, enhancments to Live Bookmarks
* Tabbed browsing UI improvements - Aim is to decrease the learning curve for new users and make the whole tabs approach more intuitive.
* Improve the process of adding new RSS feeds
* Extension Manager enhancements - option to blacklist firefox extensions
* Search Engine UI improvements - make adding search keywords more easy. Simplify adding or deleting search engines.

There are plans for enhanced security, blacklisting and anti-phishing measures to be fitted to the new version. However, no details of what they might be have been released yet.

According to http://www.betanews.com/article/prin...oon/1137435894, Mozilla plans to release an early alpha version of Firefox 2.0 by February, with builds of Firefox, Camino and Thunderbird for Apple Macs running on Intel processors.