Firefox Deer Park Alpha 2 Release Candidates


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Remember these are not targeted to general users...more so towards the power users/developers. There have been about 500 bug fixes since DPA1 and some significant additions like the new update system which is turned off by default. So that users don't get the nightly builds that the normal testers use often which can be very very buggy.

We now have a round of builds that are very close to what we will shortly release as Deer Park Alpha 2.

These candidate builds are now available for testing for each of Windows, Mac and Linux--- with l10n builds to follow shortly. Please note that for our alpha releases there are feature and polish issues that have not yet been completely worked out. We release these milestones to get the core code out to our community to test out major gecko and platform changes as soon as possible. If these test out well, we'll be shipping Deer Park Alpha 2 shortly.

This will be second alpha in the Deer Park product development cycle and will include all major and significant features, whether pref'd on or off in order to achieve wider testing and to solicit quality feedback. The quality standard for this release is pre-production and therefore it should be of the quality required to support testing, and for Extension, theme and web application developers to begin compatibility and feature testing in advance of Firefox 1.1. It may break some but not all 1.0+ targeted Extensions. It should not contain any significant and known crashers.

Please download these builds and let us know of any significant issues which should stop this release. In particular, please ensure that these builds work for you to access all major web sites and services that you use regularly, e.g. e-mail, e-commerce, banking, etc.

The new software update engine has been incorporated into these builds but is presently off by default as we put together and coordinate test plans. Details to be posted here shortly.

Also, after a round of successful testing and debugging during the first Deer Park alpha, we're enabling the Fastback feature. With this feature enabled where before the browser needed to re-render each page from a local cache of documents, now you will see a dramatic speed improvement when you click the back and forward buttons to navigate between recently viewed web pages.

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Source: Mozilla Quality Blog

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Good news :)

I wondered about this, since they just a few days ago checked in heaps of important stability fixes, making me believe it was in preparation for something like this. :)

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Been running Alpha 1 and haven't bothered with the nightly trunks in some time, but can't wait to get my hands on Alpha 2 so switched to this canidate build. It seems to load pages muchh faster then A1, especially large images.

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i treid lik alpha 2 or beta 2 or something and the friggin browser wouldnt even navigate to a page....like it would just sit there and do nothing if you type in an address and hit enter or go.

i switched to the new browser from 1.0.4 becasue the auto image resize feature wont freakin shut off even when disabled from the options screen GRR

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Hmm, not sure how well they can coexist... I think you're recommended to uninstall Firefox 1.0.4 if you wish to install a nightly.

Yes, you can just install Firefox 1.1 alpha 2 into another directory, but I'm thinking about the profile directory in Documents and Settings...

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I don't think they should have any trouble co-existing, just that because they have similar process names, you can either run FF or DP Alpha 2 at once.

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They're both installed to differant directorys,

Firefox 1.04 : Program Files / Mozilla Firefox

Deer Park : Program Files / Deerp Park Alpha 1,2

But, running Deer Park with a 1.04 profile is a big no no.

What you can do is add the p switch to deer park. Right click the shortcut you use to launch deer park and click properties, add space dash p to its target path, so the target looks like "C:\Program Files\Deer Park Alpha 2\firefox.exe" -p

This will launch deer park with a profile manager, and you need to use a separate profile just for Deer Park. I'm pretty sure running deep park with a firefox 1.04 profile will crash it.

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By default, Firefox 1.0.x and Deer Park Alpha have different installation directories. You should only have to worry about profiles, as in it is not a good idea to share a profile between Firefox 1.0.x and Deer Park Alpha.

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They're both installed to differant directorys,

Firefox 1.04 : Program Files / Mozilla Firefox

Deer Park : Program Files / Deerp Park Alpha 1,2

But, running Deer Park with a 1.04 profile is a big no no.

What you can do is add the p switch to deer park. Right click the shortcut you use to launch deer park and click properties, add space dash p to its target path, so the target looks like "C:\Program Files\Deer Park Alpha 2\firefox.exe" -p

This will launch deer park with a profile manager, and you need to use a separate profile just for Deer Park. I'm pretty sure running deep park with a firefox 1.04 profile will crash it.

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Isn't it the other way around? Because Deer Park seems to have converted my 1.0x profile.

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thanks for this.... question time with Jase now.

Do any extentions work with this?

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Yep :)

Have a look at this thread in the mozillazine forums ;)

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Isn't it the other way around?  Because Deer Park seems to have converted my 1.0x profile.

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Not sure actually. I don't keep both installed at once. I wipe my profile directory and use a clean one with DP.

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Not sure actually. I don't keep both installed at once. I wipe my profile directory and use a clean one with DP.

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Well I just tried it. And neither crashed. (of course, I also did very little configuration on that shared profile)

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how stable is it? and will it accept/import my 1.04 profile? (the statements above are a bit contradicting, that's why I ask...)

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It pretty stable or atleast on my linux box though there is an annoying bug which I might right if the offical deer park alpha 2 doesn't fix it but i"m not completely sure it firefox :whistle:

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The bfcache setting is browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers and if I remember correctly, the feature is on by default in Deer Park Alpha 2. Set it to '0' and it will never bother you again. :)

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The tree is now closed so this means we will have alpha 2 very very soon..as in tonight or early tomorrow release. Then the tree is gonna branch!! :) Branch means all stablity and cleanup will be done on the branch for the 1.1 release whilest the trunk builds will get the new features, the trunk will be built for the 1.5 release.

btw yes your profile be it 1.0.5 or under will be used with no side effects. just can't downgrade not that you would want to anyways.

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