Firefox.next (Namoroka) Is Coming

This post was written by Chris Latko on June 30, 2009
Posted Under: Technology
Minefield

Minefield

I’ve built a pre-Alpha 1 version of Firefox 3.6 also known as Namoroka (following the park theme). Namoroka is a national park in Madagascar.

As with previous Shiretoko builds I’ve done, I’m using the same .mozconfig file for optimization as well as fiddling with the application defaults for speed. I am no longer changing the User-Agent on these builds as some people are reporting problems when accessing sites such as Facebook that don’t recognize the UA. When are people going to stop browser sniffing?

In this version, the “parse HTML 5″ was off by default. I’ve turned this on. One other thing is that the browser’s name is “Minefield” as this is a pre-Alpha and things are supposed to blow up (so be careful).

You can find the Namoroka build on my downloads page.

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I’ve been running 3.6 for awhile, all my extensions work, had to use nightly tester but they all work so far. The speed feels the same, looking forward for more builds.

#1 
Written By John on July 1st, 2009 @ 1:32 pm

After using 3.6 for a few hours and changing back to Shiretoko , for some reason Shiretoko is faster or at least seems faster. Anyway, keep them coming.

#2 
Written By John on July 1st, 2009 @ 8:46 pm

I’ve always wondered, what’s the purpose of the mozconfig file? Is it an installable required to take advantage of the optimizations, or is it something else?

#3 
Written By Bob on September 25th, 2009 @ 6:14 pm

It's sort of like a config file for make. There are compilation options, config flags, etc. You don't need it unless you plan on compiling your own version.

#4 
Written By Chris Latko on September 26th, 2009 @ 6:07 am

Thanks, Chris. I always wondered about the mozconfig, and no one ever really explains what it’s for.

Looking forward to new builds eventually. I’m hoping for GCD incorporation in particular. I’d do it myself, but I have no idea how to go about compiling. :(

#5 
Written By Bob on October 3rd, 2009 @ 3:23 pm

Just a question. I'm running 10.6.2 in 64-bit mode and can't get your build of ff 3.6b2 to run. The ff namoroka icon bounces the dock once then disappears. Any ideas?

#6 
Written By bubba on November 12th, 2009 @ 7:25 pm

Do you get a any kind of error dump? If not, can you fire up console and try again? Send me the error through the contact form and I'll look at it. Thx.

#7 
Written By Chris Latko on November 12th, 2009 @ 7:38 pm

Sorry, I should have checked things out a bit better first. It appears that my profiles directory somehow got corrupted in switching form 3.5.5 to 3.6 beta. Dunno *how* that happened, but when I moved the dir to my desktop, 3.6b2 fired right up.

#8 
Written By bubba on November 12th, 2009 @ 8:22 pm

Would you mind making an optimized Firefox 3.62 for those users still on Leopard if possible?

thanks,

-jhl

#9 
Written By @junh1024 on March 23rd, 2010 @ 5:36 am

Mozilla is officially ditching Leopard support so I cannot even guarantee that I can build a Leopard version. I'll give it a shot here this week.

#10 
Written By Chris Latko on March 23rd, 2010 @ 4:46 pm

Can you please make a build of 3.6.2 for us using 10.6 as well?

#11 
Written By Guest on March 27th, 2010 @ 11:22 am

Done and blogged about.

#12 
Written By Chris Latko on March 27th, 2010 @ 11:16 pm

Thanks :D

#13 
Written By Guest on March 27th, 2010 @ 11:40 pm

Spewed a new blog post: Firefox.next (Namoroka) Is Coming http://bit.ly/xeJFk

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#14 
Written By clatko on June 30th, 2009 @ 7:25 pm

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