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hoschi
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 Posted: Tue May 24, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: Mozilla-Firefox aka. Gecko 1.8 aka. Deer Park Ebuild? |
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no Text req.
Just want an ebuild 
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rhill
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| Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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you don't really need one. grab a nightly and unzip it wherever you please.
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GenKreton
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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I was looking into trying this too (a quick search for deer park only brought this thread)
I downloaded it and untar and it contains an installer. I need to have both installs able to work simultaneously if possible. I was wondering if this will steamroll my current installation over? The other users on my machine are the ones I need to have stable ff for so there is no need to worry about my personal config files. |
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lunarfu
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| GenKreton wrote: | | I need to have both installs able to work simultaneously if possible. I was wondering if this will steamroll my current installation over? The other users on my machine are the ones I need to have stable ff for so there is no need to worry about my personal config files. |
I believe this is the link you are looking for: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/deerpark/alpha1/linux-i686/en-US/deerpark-alpha1.tar.gz
That link contains just a prebuilt binary tarball for Deer Park. All you need to do is untar it anywhere in your home directory, and run the executable manually. Then you can run Deer Park separate from your stable Firefox setup and Deer Park will also use your existing profile.
At the moment, I'm running Deer Park Alpha 1 and so far it seems real nice. Pages load faster, there are some neat little features in the Options menu, but some extensions don't work or install properly. Minor annoyances really. It is alpha software. |
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GenKreton
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot for the direct link
I was just following the link on the main page (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/); I wasn't expecting loads of options with an alpha release  hehe |
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wuzzerd
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Hah, deerpark is already in the forums. No adblock yet 
| lunarfu wrote: | | Then you can run Deer Park separate from your stable Firefox setup and Deer Park will also use your existing profile. |
It did munge my profile a bit so I set up another user to play with it.
Then I picked up the source which bombed on compile, even after tweaking the config. It would be nice to get an ~arch ebuild on the source soon. |
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Lokheed
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Nanoy
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:15 am Post subject: |
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Cool, thanks, been hating life without adblock
You might also want to check out the new fast back/forward option, works like opera's.
Simply set browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers to something higher than zero, 5 or so. |
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numerodix
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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I must have missed it.. what is it that makes this new Firefox build so special? 
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Cossins
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| Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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| numerodix wrote: | | I must have missed it.. what is it that makes this new Firefox build so special? |
Fast Back/Forward-cache (disabled by default - highly experimental), UI refinement, general optimization...
- Simon
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numerodix
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| Cossins wrote: | | numerodix wrote: | | I must have missed it.. what is it that makes this new Firefox build so special? |
Fast Back/Forward-cache (disabled by default - highly experimental), UI refinement, general optimization...
- Simon |
Good enough. For an alpha build it feels insanely stable. I don't know if it's turning off the extensions that's done it but it's faster too. I've long suspected some of the extensions are really slowing for firefox but they're so nice to have..
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| Nanoy wrote: |
Cool, thanks, been hating life without adblock
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Totally know what you mean. That and Flashblock are musts...
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