beatnikpad.com— This article not only has specific processor optimized builds of Firefox 2.0, but a good list of recommended add-ons.
Oct 26, 2006View in Crawl 4
I love this guy's builds. They are always very impressive and operate faster than the default Mozilla build. Oh, and I'd highly recommend the "Firefoxy" form widgets over the "Aqua" version. The Firefoxy ones show up cleaner.
So what reason do I have to trust and run an application that's downloaded from "some guy" ? I'm not saying that there's anything fishy going on here, but it's this sort of "run random crap from the internet" mentality that gets people's machines infected with all sorts of nasties.
@TomP:Then change the icon back to the original. Do a command-i on Firefox.app, click on the icon, copy it with command-c, then command-i BonEcho.app, click on its icon and paste the official Firefox icon with command-v.
Then do your research and learn that Neil has been building optimized builds for a damn long time. Read his website. Read through his old MozillaZine thread and find out what he's about. Read comments posted in other threads by him. Effort, sir, will prevail.I'm not saying that there's anything inaccurate with what you're saying, but it's this sort of "oh my god some random guy isn't good enough to write software for my computer" mentality that keeps Microsoft in charge.If you enjoy your lazy tinfoil outlook on software, keep it, but sowing FUD into a thread about Firefox builds that have an established reputation in the Firefox builder community is nonsense.
So much ignorance about the code names. State Parks in Canada was somewhat right, that's where the name Bon Echo comes from, but neither Neil nor any other third party builder chose the names, they're the code names for the different releases of Firefox. DeerPark was the code name for the 1.5.x branch, BonEcho for the 2.x branch, and Minefield is for the current trunk. When they branch Mozilla 1.9 for Firefox 3.x, it will become known as GranParadiso This is the same concept as things like Windows "Longhorn" or Intel "Conroe" or Mac OS X "Tiger".
corsairstwOct 26, 2006
I love this guy's builds. They are always very impressive and operate faster than the default Mozilla build. Oh, and I'd highly recommend the "Firefoxy" form widgets over the "Aqua" version. The Firefoxy ones show up cleaner.
igraham09Oct 26, 2006
i chose FireFoxy widgets... but idk w/e you want
unluckierOct 27, 2006
So what reason do I have to trust and run an application that's downloaded from "some guy" ? I'm not saying that there's anything fishy going on here, but it's this sort of "run random crap from the internet" mentality that gets people's machines infected with all sorts of nasties.
latcaOct 27, 2006
with foxy widgets the buttons and form fields can be changed with CSS while the aqua will always have the os x style buttons and form fields
streakOct 28, 2006
But the official builds aren't "optimized", correct?
fomaOct 28, 2006
@TomP:Then change the icon back to the original. Do a command-i on Firefox.app, click on the icon, copy it with command-c, then command-i BonEcho.app, click on its icon and paste the official Firefox icon with command-v.
elfurbeNov 1, 2006
Then do your research and learn that Neil has been building optimized builds for a damn long time. Read his website. Read through his old MozillaZine thread and find out what he's about. Read comments posted in other threads by him. Effort, sir, will prevail.I'm not saying that there's anything inaccurate with what you're saying, but it's this sort of "oh my god some random guy isn't good enough to write software for my computer" mentality that keeps Microsoft in charge.If you enjoy your lazy tinfoil outlook on software, keep it, but sowing FUD into a thread about Firefox builds that have an established reputation in the Firefox builder community is nonsense.
elfurbeNov 1, 2006
So much ignorance about the code names. State Parks in Canada was somewhat right, that's where the name Bon Echo comes from, but neither Neil nor any other third party builder chose the names, they're the code names for the different releases of Firefox. DeerPark was the code name for the 1.5.x branch, BonEcho for the 2.x branch, and Minefield is for the current trunk. When they branch Mozilla 1.9 for Firefox 3.x, it will become known as GranParadiso This is the same concept as things like Windows "Longhorn" or Intel "Conroe" or Mac OS X "Tiger".
minimeNov 22, 2006
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