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Arch recently upgraded to FF 2.0 in the stable repositories and has rebranded Firefox to Bon Echo. After a fresh install of arch and installing Bon Echo all was fine except when I went to google to get the notepad extension. It kept telling me I did not have a supported browser and I needed either Firefox or IE.

Now I know the extension works with FF 2.0 as I installed it on a windows version. It works on my system at home running Arch and FF 2.0 but I had it installed before I upgraded to 2.0.

The only thing I can think is that google is querying the browser and getting Bon Echo instead of Firefox, which I verified through a testing site that my browser is reporting as Bon Echo.

Before submitting an issue to the Arch forums I wanted to know if anyone else was seeing these problems with FF rebranding?

dann wrote:Arch recently upgraded to FF 2.0 in the stable repositories and has rebranded Firefox to Bon Echo.

I don't think they have, no .

Bon Echo is the development name for the first testing release of Firefox 2, just like the testing release of Firefox 1.5 was called "Deer Park".

So whenever you install the "final" version of Firefox 2.0 all should be fine.

If you are really sure that you DO have the final 2.0 version and that it IS called Bon Echo, the Arch developers have mixed something up, 'cause, as i mentioned, Bon Echo is merely the development name.

Bjerrk wrote:Bon Echo is the development name for the first testing release of Firefox 2, just like the testing release of Firefox 1.5 was called "Deer Park".

According to this post on the forum: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? ... t=bon+echo

Bon Echo is the new name for FF 2.0 in Arch, as per the issues Debian had with branding. Unless you have other news.

Oh, and I should have said current, not stable.

Further down in that post there it is mentioned that you can change:

general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/2.0 in about:config to get around a lot of this checking. Worked for the notebook. I hear there are issues with some Yahoo pages.

Bon Echo is the codename for FF2, I'm pretty sure, just like Deer Park was for 1.5. You could try installing swiftfox from the aur and see if that helps. I only rarely use firefox these days, I'm afraid, so I'm not a hell of a lot of help.

Could just get the plain ole FF2 from Mozilla.org and run in the home directory