Dreaming Of Beetles

Hi,
Does the 3.5pre download reflect the latest firefox build (in the case 3.5 RC3?)
It is difficult to check the build number.

Thanks

jack

What is the difference between your builds and the ones found here: http://firefoxmac.furbism.com/ Are they both optimized for the Mac?

nice build, works fast for me hmmm, but one thing that bugs me is that facebook does not recognize that the browser is running on a firefox engine, so certain functions are down (i.e. toolbar chat). that doesn't happen with other builds i've tried like ElFurbe's, so i'll be using that for now…

still do keep updating your build and i'm always ready to give it a place in my mac

You can use a plugin like User Agent Switcher to change your agent to "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5" for sites like Facebook.

@chris: hmmm it still doesn't seem to work with facebook… maybe you missed out something?

@matt: your suggestion works great! think i'll be using this for now until chris fixes the UA issue.

thanks guys

@chris: i just tried downloading shiretoko again, but my user agent is still

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1pre) Gecko/20090630 Shiretoko/3.5.1pre AutoPager/0.5.2.2 (http://www.teesoft.info/)

did i download the old version?

@matt: yup the addon works great! will be using this until the UA issue is corrected.

thanks for the help guys!

What are the chances of there being a 64bit build?

hi chris, realised that the problem can easily be corrected on my part by editing the preference "general.useragent.extra.firefox". thanks for this build, it works superbly with this UA problem out of the way!!

I just download this and could no longer use the (relatively) new version of yahoo mail. It only supports the classic version.

I didn't know this version still existed! I was very happy back in Firefox 2.0, I'll give it another try!

Now that Snow Leopard is out, I'd also appreciate a 64-bit build.

Thanks for the great support!

Thanks a lot for your great releases but this time there's an issue:

When starting up Intel Optimized Shiretoko 3.5.3 permanently crashes with

OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0×000000008b084589

Hope that helps fixing it and looking forward to a new release,
Jo

Thank you for this excellent browser. I am using Shiretoko 3.5.2 and it doesn't work with Google Desktop Search. very weird. Could you please make them work together.

You should be able to use it just fine by changing the general.useragent.extra.firefox to something like Firefox/3.5.3 in about:config

3.7 64-bit fails on SL 10.6.1 (for me anyway) It complains about sqlite being too old. Mine is sqlite3 3.6.18.

The about:config method does not work.

At least, not entirely.

Someone said it was actually working correctly, that it is Safari & Firefox which are working improperly. But that seems rather doubtful, especially as it is supposed to be the same/similar to Firefox…

The colors remain washed out in the font, background & most pictures.

I made a change to the about:config that considerably increased the download speed, however, the setting was lost & I do not remember what it was. It may have been some sort of cross~check. Still, I am surprised that such a significant change is not more widely known, if not implemented. It is listed on one page somewhere on the Internet.

The Minefield/3.6a2pre works on 10.4.11 Intel, but many of your other versions do not.

I, generally, use Camino & Firefox~ your version seems to work better than most~ & sometimes Safari. But Safari seems to cause a lot of trouble. It does download fast & have a few other nice features. I believe the ‘larger construction’ ‘Webkit’ is broken on my computer & I can only use the ‘independent browser’. I use a 4~ either one or the other with the different history styles & tab configurations. I have taken to drag~and~drop for Camino a lot of times. Using ClipEdit allows better use of .textClippings.

Sometimes, I use the Sun Download Manager.

I've tried both the 3.5.7 build and the 3.7 64-bit, there appears to be a problem with the xml parser; I get the following error when visiting a skydrive site:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: http://cid-03c77915e8230e36.skydrive.live.com/bro...
Line Number 76, Column 184: <div id="m_wh"><script type="text/javascript">/* Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation */function $c_TreatTile(a,e){a.style.display=e;var d=a.width,c=a.height,b=19;if(d>=c||c<b)a.height=b;if(d<c||d<b)a.width=b}</script>
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------^

Congrats on the 64-bit build, are you planning on building 64-bit 3.5.X version?

It does not seem to be a language/character encoding issue. Just going to skydrive.com causes the XML parsing error.

flash is not working for me on snow leopard

Dear Cris, I love the speed of the 64 Bit Build, but
I was missed all my favorite add ons and plug ins. So
I went to your latest 3.6 Build.
Keep up your good work and perfecting Minefield and I
will explore social media and checking in with Josh and You

Pax
Br. Dan

2008 iMac with 4Gigs of Ram running Snow Leopard.

@ MATT

try 64Bit Prerelease:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Wow, you’re really fast with pushing out these builds! You beat even mozilla! I appreciate it. Thanks!

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Hello,
Can anyone post somewhere a tutorial about how to compile firefox from source? (for mac)

Thanks

Thanks so much for 3.6.3 for snow leopard

Hey, thanks for all the great stuff.

Wanted to let you know that for some reason the Firefox 3.58 on Snow Leopard goes into hit-or-miss mode for java apps online. Also, when ever I control-quit an application, it doesn't really close and starts to go into an infinite memory eating mode and 103% CPU while saying "Not responding". Closing Firefox has been the biggest reason why I don't want to open Firefox….

Keep up the awesome and thanks a bunch!

Thanks for the quick response. I switched to 3.6 and it's smooth but it still has the memory leak when I shut it off until I force quit. 3.7a4pre actually does not have the memory leak issue, but when I go on sites that use java, it will say I don't have it :/

hi, thanks for these builds, how could one get an i18n build for say… spanish… would that be doable? or how would I change the interface if I wanted into spanish? pardon me ignorance.

HELP!!!
Hi,

I'm running mozilla on a macbook intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz with 4GB SDRAM. The Mac OS X version is 10.5.7. Whenever I open Firefox and look in the activity monitor, it appears that it's running as "Power PC". If I've understood correctly, this would mean Firefox is running using the Rosetta Stone emulator, using up processing power unnecessarily. In addition, it eats a lot of memory, and sometimes CPU power as well. Occasionally I've tried to download software for the intel mac using firefox, and the download fails because the website in question wrongly identifies the mac as being pre-intel. The same happens when I run Safari, by the way. When I run opera, it runs as it should, as intel, and the downloads are no problem. What can I do to have Firefox running as an Intel application? I've just downloaded Firefox 3.6 and the problem remains: Activity monitor readings: Kind: Power PC; Virtual memory 1.31 GB and growing slowly; Real memory 178.97 MB (and growing slowly but continuously); CPU around 50 (moving up and down like crazy, and growing on average). By comparison, Opera is at 1.5 CPU steady, with 1.03 GB virtual memory and 111.30 MB real memory which remain steady. I prefer the features on Firefox, especially the tags for the bookmarks. What can I do so Firefox (and maybe Safari) recognized they're running on intel?!

This might be a stupid question, but what is mozconfig and what do i do with it?

I'm running mozilla on a macbook intel core 2 duo 2.2 GHz with 4GB SDRAM. The Mac OS X version is 10.5.7. Whenever I open Firefox and look in the activity monitor, it appears that it's running as "Power PC". If I've understood correctly, this would mean Firefox is running using the Rosetta Stone emulator, using up processing power unnecessarily. In addition, it eats a lot of memory, and sometimes CPU power as well. Occasionally I've tried to download software for the intel mac using firefox, and the download fails because the website in question wrongly identifies the mac as being pre-intel. The same happens when I run Safari, by the way. When I run opera, it runs as it should, as intel, and the downloads are no problem. What can I do to have Firefox running as an Intel application? I've just downloaded Firefox 3.6 and the problem remains: Activity monitor readings: Kind: Power PC; Virtual memory 1.31 GB and growing slowly; Real memory 178.97 MB (and growing slowly but continuously); CPU around 50 (moving up and down like crazy, and growing on average). By comparison, Opera is at 1.5 CPU steady, with 1.03 GB virtual memory and 111.30 MB real memory which remain steady. I prefer the features on Firefox, especially the tags for the bookmarks. What can I do so Firefox (and maybe Safari) recognized they're running on intel?!
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