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Old May 9th, 2008, 04:04 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Thanks FF3!

I've been running Firefox 2 forever but it has been soooo sluggish. Pages load slow, new windows take 3-5 seconds to open, and this wasn't just on one pc but two. I've been dealing with it for months and months, wondering what I can do to fix the problem.

Well I finally tried FF3 today and bam, problem solved. It is extremely snappy and I am happy again. Thanks FF3!
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Old May 10th, 2008, 07:52 PM     #2 (permalink)
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All righty then I better get over there and look for it... I bought a new hard drive, ram, and a dvd burner to install tomorrow because mines so slow.. (heehee I noticed I was down to less than a gig of free space doh!) So that's what I did with my guberment rebate

OMG!! FF is so smart it even found my documents (and download folder) I moved to another disk and I didn't have to tell it where it was! (OK, so simple things make me happy )
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Just start typing in the Location Bar to search your bookmarks and history. It adapts and learns as you use it.

Well that's pretty freakin' cool the way it works

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wondering what I can do to fix the problem.


I edit the configuration in Firefox's about:config.


Some of these settings can be found here Each computer is different as well as the type of Internet one has. So certain settings have to be adjusted differently.

Anyway, I'll have to look at this new version. Just downloaded it.

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The only thing I've noticed about the beta so far is that the download box popup box is always empty when I download a file.
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Old May 11th, 2008, 01:36 PM     #5 (permalink)
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I mostly use Opera, but I have been testing Minefield (Mozilla 1.9 trunk development build) since the alpha development stage back in 2006 with largely positive results. I use nightly trunk builds instead of the Firefox 3 "public beta" releases (Mozilla 1.9 branch), and even so, Minefield has proven quite reliable with only minimal development fuss.

Load up the Nightly Tester Tools, tweak the networking config (even if just FasterFox), and enjoy a quick browser. For example, recent nightly builds of Minefield are offering impressive JavaScript performance, oftentimes on par and sometimes even exceeding Opera.

Firefox 3 should go final in late June.

The next-generation Mozilla 2.x "mozilla-central" trunk should go live sometime this year, which will eventually provide the basis for Firefox 4. Source is already online for trunk development, but the Mercurial system (Mozilla is migrating from CVS) is currently being tested with Mozilla 1.9 trunk code in preperation for the upcoming project. It could take a few weeks/months to get Mozilla 2.x trunk into the pipeline.
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You install the nightly builds on top of the last build? Or do you completely uninstall the last build and install the nightly build? Because for me that would suck for my customizations and what have you. Although, my tweaks and addons could negate the type of build too in terms of speed and performance I guess. Maybe I should use it in VMware.

Songbird is something else I have been looking into.
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To simplify life, completely uninstall any previous versions of Firefox, then install Minefield. Otherwise, you can incur profile issues unless you want to manually create multiple Mozilla profiles, which is an annoyance IMO.

If you are using Minefield, just use the auto update feature to roll to the latest nightly - works about 99% of the time, expect to occasionally force a manual install if a nightly update fails.

As for the Nightly Tester Tools, the package will usually work until a major revision status change, which is typcally a few weeks apart, after which a new Nightly Tester Tools package should be released to match the updated revision.

Alternatively, there are other ways to try installing packages and extensions that do not natively support the latest Minefield releases. For example, you can manually extract a package, edit the install script to change the revision qualifier, recompress into an install archive, then try forcing a manual installation.
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