XML News from Wednesday, March 22, 2006

The Mozilla Project has posted the first alpha of Firefox 2.0, code named "Bon Echo". New features include:

• Places window for managing feeds, bookmarks and history
• A close tab button on each tab
• New data storage layer for bookmarks and history (using SQLlite)
• Extended search plugin format
• Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
• Support for SVG text using svg:textPath