Holy *bleep* Mozilla Minefield

[Mo0o]

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/moz.../nightly/latest-trunk/

Currently using Opera as my main browser because Firefox is so god awfully slow. I ran across an article about Mozilla Minefield and decided to give it a try. Still in the alpha version but this is by far the fastest browser i've ever used, blows FF out of the water and I would say a hair over Opera. I read it supports a lot of FF extensions already as well

No profanity in the titles

ATOT Moderator ElFenix

 

[ElFenix]

tagged

 

[jpeyton]

This is dangerous. I walk the mindfields so watch your head rock.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: jpeyton
This is dangerous. I walk the mindfields so watch your head rock.

more of a fan of voodoo people myself but Minefields is a damn good song

 

[LS21]

ive never ever experienced the situation where the actual browser rendering is the bottle neck when tryign to view a webpage. i dont understand the speed argument.

 

[TridenT]

I rather not try this... Anything beta/alpha tends to be crash prone from Mozilla... And it already crashes too often.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
I rather not try this... Anything beta/alpha tends to be crash prone from Mozilla... And it already crashes too often.

Never had any problems with FF. Must be a PEBKAC on your end.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: LS21
ive never ever experienced the situation where the actual browser rendering is the bottle neck when tryign to view a webpage. i dont understand the speed argument.

Maybe its different for your computer but Firefox takes longer to properly render the page in comparison to Opera.

 

[Bulk Beef]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
I rather not try this... Anything beta/alpha tends to be crash prone from Mozilla... And it already crashes too often.

Just you. Probably cause you're white.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
tagged

Instead of tagging, you should have edited his thread title. :roll:

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: LS21
ive never ever experienced the situation where the actual browser rendering is the bottle neck when tryign to view a webpage. i dont understand the speed argument.

QTF

in FF pages come up instantly for me, I suppose a different browser might make it open a millisecond faster, but my mind isn't going to be able to compute the difference

 

[rudeguy]

Downloading...wonder if ABP will work

 

[nonameo]

Er.... is it firefox 3.1b2?

 

[rudeguy]

Hmm...after the install it said that ABP wasn't compatible, but it seems to be working fine.

Time to do some test driving.

 

[dr150]

I love Opera on Windows.

But Opera sucks balls on my Mac. Slow/Stuttery.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: LS21
ive never ever experienced the situation where the actual browser rendering is the bottle neck when tryign to view a webpage. i dont understand the speed argument.

QTF

in FF pages come up instantly for me, I suppose a different browser might make it open a millisecond faster, but my mind isn't going to be able to compute the difference

Yeah very pointless, I dont see how rendering can be the bottleneck at any point.

 

[Crono]

This is just a beta version of Firefox, right? If so, I'll just wait. Firefox is fast enough for me as it is.

EDIT: Hmm, Wikipedia says "yes":

"The precursory releases of upcoming Firefox releases are codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk builds. Development of Firefox after version 3.0 is split over two milestones: version 3.1 and version 4.0. Development for the 3.1 releases takes place on the Mozilla trunk, with releases and pre-release nightly builds coming from the Mozilla 1.8.1 branch (2.0) and the Mozilla 1.9 branch (3.0). Development for 4.0 will be based on Mozilla 2."

 

[BrokenVisage]

This is new to most of you? I remember downloading Minefield when Firefox TWO came out. I thought it was a FF2 beta just under some other development name. Didn't really do much with it though I think the real Firefox 2 came out soon after and I went with that.

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: LS21
ive never ever experienced the situation where the actual browser rendering is the bottle neck when tryign to view a webpage. i dont understand the speed argument.

QTF

in FF pages come up instantly for me, I suppose a different browser might make it open a millisecond faster, but my mind isn't going to be able to compute the difference

Yeah very pointless, I dont see how rendering can be the bottleneck at any point.

well some people are so busy I guess every millisecond counts to them. It's possible if I switched to Opera I could wind up saving seconds a day, I could use those seconds to nef that much more on ATOT!

*considers switching to Opera now for the added neffing benefits*

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: nonameo
Er.... is it firefox 3.1b2?

It's a 64 bit version of Firefox.

Semi crippled since there's no 64 bit version of flash.

I honestly don't use Firefox for it's browser rendering speed, I use it for the abundance of addons. Is Opera just as customizable (mainly is there an adblock/flashblock equivalent?)?

 

[Pacfanweb]

Waiting on websites slows me down, Firefox doesn't.

When I tried Opera, it gave me the illusion it was faster, with all the info that was flickering by at the bottom as a page loaded, but if I ignored all that timer and progress stuff, the actual time to load pages was pretty much the same.
Maybe I should try it again.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: LS21
ive never ever experienced the situation where the actual browser rendering is the bottle neck when tryign to view a webpage. i dont understand the speed argument.

QTF

in FF pages come up instantly for me, I suppose a different browser might make it open a millisecond faster, but my mind isn't going to be able to compute the difference

Yeah very pointless, I dont see how rendering can be the bottleneck at any point.

I'm quite sure that 99.99% of the time you wait for a page to load is the downloading of the images.

 

[Auryg]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: QueBert

Originally posted by: LS21
ive never ever experienced the situation where the actual browser rendering is the bottle neck when tryign to view a webpage. i dont understand the speed argument.

QTF

in FF pages come up instantly for me, I suppose a different browser might make it open a millisecond faster, but my mind isn't going to be able to compute the difference

Yeah very pointless, I dont see how rendering can be the bottleneck at any point.

I'm quite sure that 99.99% of the time you wait for a page to load is the downloading of the images.

You guys who can't notice are probably the same people who couldn't notice when their screens were set to 60 Hz

 

[Woosta]

Safari 4 beta > Safari 3 > Opera 9.5 > Any other browser in terms of speed. Safari is a ferrari, Firefox is like a godamn 90s volkswagen. I have NO IDEA why people say Firefox is fast at all, it's completely slow ( even without plugins )

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
I rather not try this... Anything beta/alpha tends to be crash prone from Mozilla... And it already crashes too often.

Never had any problems with FF. Must be a PEBKAC on your end.

you realize just downloading it <> to using it.

FF3 latest stable fails playing video A LOT.

IE7 also fails at things.

I wish those writing browsers would shoot for stability vs feature set.