Mozilla Firefox Nightly Builds

ginipigginipig OH, NOES
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
Has anybody else tried the 20040326 build? Either my isp did some much needed tweaking, or this is one helluva fast build. I'm aware of the bugs/workarounds that accompany this build, but.. Damn! It's quick!

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  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited March 2004
    Nope.

    I used to D/L the Mozilla nightly builds every night. Normally took 60-90 minutes (I don't recall ever seeing it below the 60-70 minute range, though it did sometimes take longer than 90 minutes). Cable advertised upto 50x faster than dial-up. First day I had cable I downloaded Mozilla in about just a few minutes (seems like it was around 60KBps so that would be around 2.5-3 minutes because the nightly builds back then varied from around 8MB to 10MB or so it seems). Cable spoiled me. It wasn't long before I was again thinking "this is too slow." Fortunately I happened upon SpeedGuide.Net and some tweaks :) I started getting over 200KBps on my downloads (love those tweaks!!!). The nightly builds would complete in a minute or less (normally under 50 seconds). For me cable was going around 70-100x faster than dial-up. I was happy! :)

    Oh well, enough semi-off-topic ranting.
    (I got cable about 3.5 or 4.5 years ago and I've been following Moz for quite a while before I got cable.)
  • ginipigginipig OH, NOES
    edited March 2004
    ??!!!!!!!

    I was referring to browsing speeds using Nightly Builds.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited March 2004
    I think I will wait until the changes are stable, myself, but they ARE deliberately removing unpopular features to make the browser perform better. Also, they are shifting much of the code to Java 2 compatibility, and if you have Sun Java 2 on your box, expect Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird to take advantage of it more and more. Sun Java 2, 142_03 and up, is very fast with Java 2 compliant things.

    Feature set limits, Java 2 integration, and faster Java 2, all are helping. :D Java 2's backwards compatibility to things coded for Java 1 compliance, however is limited and slower, it in essence has to convert applets on the fly to run Java 1 pseudoprocesses. My XP box has Java 1 and 2 on it, some programs call the one, some the other, and I cannot run apps that together use BOTH at once....

    Mozilla is being positioned as an all-in-one, Firefox as only a FLYING fast browser, and Thunderbird as a fast email client only. Mozilla 1.6 is fast also, as is Thunderbird .5. They share the adoption of Java 2. So does Opera. I mostly use Opera and Thunderbird, myself-- different strokes for different folks, not saying absolute best, just what works best for me.

    John D.
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