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Firefox Deer Park Alpha Available

Posted by Zonk on from the break-out-the-salt-licks dept.

The Mozilla folks have made available the newest release of the Firefox web browser. This release is for testers and developers only, and should not be used if you have no interest in trying out the latest build. The release notes cover the recent changes. From the what's new document: "Fast back (and forward) - This very experimental feature allows much faster session history navigation. The feature is off by default but can be enabled for testing purposes by setting the browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers preference to a nonzero number."

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  1. Re:fp by miasmic · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope it lets you fast forward to some better posts than this one!

  2. Re:Extensions by MynockGuano · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps they should put out a sort of "alpha release". This release would be basically a semi-official in-development build for "testing purposes only" on which extension authors and developers can "test" their code to see if there are any problems. This way, they will have time to prepare their extensions before the next release. Furthermore, to avoid confusion and prevent everyone from jumping on an unstable product and generating negative publicity, it would probably be best not to brand it with the Firefox name; maybe they could just use whatever the current code-name happens to be (like, for example, "Deer Park", a random name that I just happened to come up with).

  3. Re:New browser features by MynockGuano · · Score: 2, Funny

    Unregrettably, Opera's ad-spam feature wasn't quite able to make it for this release.

  4. Re:not working for me by MynockGuano · · Score: 2, Funny

    cant even find "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" on about:config

    I found it by right-clicking, selecting "New->Integer" and typing in "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" in about:config.

  5. Re:not working for me by Slashcrap · · Score: 2, Funny

    bookmark folder not showing
    nav buttons disabled (dead)
    some (important) plugin not compatible
    cant even find "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" on about:config

    reverting to old 1.04
    worst waste of 30 minutes

    reading lame post on slashdot from anonymous coward
    whining about alpha software
    because too dumb to use new profile

    reverting to kuro5hin
    worst waste of 30 seconds

  6. "this release is for testers and developers only" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How can they enforce that? I'm neither, and so far nothing's happened t