Mel, perhaps you can clarify this for me, or else link me to the info I am seeking.
I have spent the last 2 days reinstalling Windows 7 from scratch b/c of a botched app install, and I am curious about something.
I went to the Mozilla FTP site to get the latest builds of the pre-releases and / or trunk builds, and I saw something that made me stop for a second. Specifically, with Minefield 3.7a1, thre is a
Places version, a
Tracemonkey version, and a
trunk version. I think Tracemonkey is the JS engine that is in 3.5, and I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that it would be in future versions as well - so, if not, is this actually a
'downgrade' of Minefield, using a
'stable' JS engine over something
newer, or am I thinking in
reverse, in that Minefield was originally developed with the old JS Engine and thus the Tracemonkey builds would be more stable....And what is the Places build?
IIRC, previously I was using either a trunk build or else a Places build, but I am not sure which I should be using / testing....
BTW, hopy you and yours have a
safe and Happy New Year!
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December 29, 2009, 04:07:51 PM
December 29, 2009, 05:32:22 PMmrtech
Those may be builds used in automated testing, but I would definitely stick with the standard trunk/minefield builds. I use them regularly with minimal issues, I've also enabled some of the latest enhancements (below):
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled: This will run plug-ins in a sub-process which should help Firefox not suck or crash as much (ie: Flash)
http://twitter.com/mrtech/status/6766459928html5.enable and html5.* timing tweaks: should be better/faster/more accurate parsing of pages.
http://twitter.com/mrtech/status/6966260889
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December 29, 2009, 05:41:20 PMmrtech
I've tweaked this a little just now but it should also help with hacking around:
http://www.mrtech.com/forums/index.php/topic,2418.0.html
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December 29, 2009, 08:30:20 PMjohnlgalt
Thanks for the info - I already have those tweaks enabled in my Minefield profile, luckily. That last blog that you posted helps out a lot - gonna get into twitter and tweet it
Also going to be blogging about my multiple disk architecture and how to easily install the OS and have Fx / Tb / Sunbird / Songbird back an working the way it was before the OS re-install. I'll tweet that as well.
BTW, I noticed that the last Shiretoko build 3.5.7pre was dated 12/21, and now there are 3.5.8pre builds instead. I suppose that means that Fx is about to get updated to 3.5.7 very soon.
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December 29, 2009, 09:44:30 PMmrtech
yeah, not sure about Shiretoko, I primarily test trunk on Win/Mac and Namoroka on a 10.4 Mac. Very stable.
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December 30, 2009, 08:33:36 PMjohnlgalt
Weird. Minefield is giving me grief on Windows, constantly crashing, 70% of the time when I try to open a new page (and one that usually involves some sort of Flash animation, now that I think about it).
I thought it was previously due to me having the Beta version of Flash installed, but on this install I have nothing but the default version availalbe as of yesterday for both Flash and Shockwave....
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