Firefox2/Goals
Goals & Objectives
Bon Echo will focus on user interface innovations that help the user in their common browsing tasks interacting with search, bookmarks and history, and improvements to our existing capabilities for tabbed browsing, RSS handling, managing extensions, security and performance.
Put into marketing-speak ..:
Bon Echo will build on Firefox 1.5 with better performance, and improvements to virtually every part of the web experience, including new capabilities for managing and organizing a user's personal web information. From best-of-breed tabbed browsing to industry-leading web standards support, Bon Echo will demonstrate Mozilla's continued commitment to driving the web forward for every user, everywhere.
See also: Firefox Product Development Charter
Product Audience
Bon Echo will continue Mozilla's focus on the individual user. We will serve the widest possible set of people who have the most common goals and are trying to accomplish the most common web browsing tasks.
Context and Environment
Many environment factors will influence feature prioritization and release management decisions for Bon Echo. The success of Firefox has led to a more competitive and innovative environment for Web browser and Web technologies. It has also provided new opportunities for distribution and reach into new markets. Also, Microsoft will release an updated version of both their Web browser and operating system in the second half of 2006.
Features
Bon Echo will retain all of the existing Firefox features, with improvements that:
- update the look and feel of the browser,
- improve and augment the capabilities for Bookmarks and History,
- improve the user experience of web browsing and tabbed browsing,
- improve and augment the capabilities for handling web feeds,
- improve the user experience of adding, removing and managing extensions,
- add new capabilities to protect users from dangerous extensions,
- improve and augment the capabilities for web search,
- make it easier to install and distribute the browser,
- include the latest security and stability updates,
- include new security features to protect users from phishing,
- update our end user documentation so it's more useful to users looking for help.
These are described in more detail on the Firefox 2 requirements page.