I use Minefield as my main web browser everyday, and as you guys all probably know, it's the nightly build of Firefox. For those of you who are not using it, I just thought I might show you what's new from the stable versions of Firefox:
I'll update this topic if more changes occur with Minefield.
The key is will it match the speed of Chrome? Out of all the new wave of browsers, IE9 sounds the most interesting with the hardware accelerated graphics.
Then what is the Namoroka build I'm using? In the About it's listed as version 3.6.5 pre. I had the 3.7 Alpha 2 version installed for a while - oh wait - something just occurred to me was that I think you have to manually install those versions each night.
Namoroka is 3.6's code name. 3.6.4 is Lorentz (aka out-of-process-plugins). 3.6.5pre...is something after Lorentz, but I don't think it's more than a few bugfixes.
Nightly builds should update each day automatically. If not, set app.update.channel to nightly
Minefield runs plugins as a separate process I guess this was done to prevent badly coded plugins like Flash /Abat from crashing the browser.
Crash protection sounds like a good idea but my experience with Minefield and plugins has been less than favourable to the point of being annoying.
If you visit a Flash infested site like MySpace or you're watching videos then sometimes plugins can become sluggish or unresponsive.
For example YouYoube videos will play but sometimes the panel stops responding i.e. cannot stop pause or fast forward (unless I use task manager).
Richard S.
Minefield == nightly builds. Mozilla says " This directory contains precompiled binaries of Firefox. These are NIGHTLY BUILDS. They are completely untested. We don't even know if they start up without crashing."
They won't. I posted a comment about that on the Chromatic Pixel blog, and got told Firefox wasn't to blame but some add-on. Yeah. Like if all users encountering leaks had the same add-on installed.