Firefox 4.0 Alpha 1

Anyone a Mozilla nut here?

I am curious about this build. I am running it on Nix, but is it an official nightly?

It appears in the Central folder on the Nightly FTP.

Is it a branch, or?

It looks identical in every way to Minefield 3.0b5pre, and is still even tagged as Minefield, which is just for the 3.x branch.


Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:2.0a1pre) Gecko/2008030802 Minefield/4.0a1pre

 

Yep, thats the win version.

My Minefield is still on the 3.0b5pre builds too on Vista.

I installed this on Nix. Its not available through the upgrade channel.

 

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:2.0a1pre) Gecko/2008030802 Minefield/4.0a1pre

It still doesn't make it past 67/100 on Acid 3 though.

 

Ie8 doesnt even get that far

 

Ok, looks like this isn't the offical nightly trunk, but an offshoot. The main nightly trunk still receives the most updates.

While the site appears to be having troubles, this is the URL:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mercurial

This stuff is a little above my head, but i think its going to be the branch for FF4, based off gecko 2.x.

FF3 is 1.9.

 

Neither does Opera.

I've been following the nightly threads at Mozillazine fairly close, lately. Don't remember the specific threads, but word was basically, that the 4 alpha doesn't get any "development action", yet...and it may be quite some time, before it does ...And that most of the exciting changes/updates are right there in the current nightlys, for the most part. Or, words to that effect.

I usually, follow the nightly threads at the site to see what bugs/issues are developing and if they're big ones wait, before updating, or downloading a more recent build at the archive linked on the threads. (when I have the time).

 

oops, sorry- added this post after the last two.Too late!- You get the gist

 

Im heading back to the main trunk. My college website login page doesn't load.

/sigh

 

You're welcome, it reiterates the things said on the link Adrynalyne provided.

For those interested, here's a thread depicting changes in javascript speed for every new/current nightly and some comparisons with other browsers. Mainly, using the SunSpider JS bench test: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=630259&start=135

 

In addition, since they are both considered "trunk" builds, 4.0a will be the main trunk once 3.0 comes out. At least, that is the way I read it earlier today.