Thanks a lot for the work! :-)

Thanks again for your work on this. One question though: one of the key reasons for FF1.5's existence was updates through patches. Is there no way to integrate this into your builds? Arguably your server traffic would be lower.

Merci Monsieur :-) Deerpark (G5) has quickly become by default browser as a web developer, I like Firefox, but it's form widgets suck.

Cheers;
Poncho

Do you have any idea of the performance gain with those optimized builds compared to the official one?

What specific things have been changed to consider this an optimized build?

Right on dude, this is great. You are doing a great service to Mac users by doing this grunt work for us.

While I have no official benchmarks to prove it, Deerpark G4 feels much more responsive on my Dual 1ghz G4 than the regular non-optimized G4.

Thanks a lot for doing this!

Any plans on making G3-optimized builds?
Thanks.

I've been using the previous version for a while, however I've got a decidedly odd problem with the new version which I put on last night (the Firefoxy widget version).

If I go onto the MyBlogs list on Bloglines, which runs in frames with the bloglist in the left frame, and a view of the current blog in the right hand side, whenever I click on a blog on the left hand list it kicks off an untitled tab that comes up empty, and does nothing in the right hand side.

Concerning the Icon... could you use this one ? I always change it manually. Maybe the author would agree. I still like to have a firefox-like icon (and a good looking one).

http://interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=1416

Stupid question... why doesn't this get integrated in the firefox page? Have you ever contacted them asking to get your builds at least linked?

I think this version broke bloglines.com for me. When I click on items in bloglines a new window opens and nothing happens. This started happening just today when I upgraded to the new version.

Thought you should know. Thanks for this browser!

Thank you so much!

Another vote for a broken bloglines :(

When using Bloglines, I get these two errors:

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: http://bloglines.com/myblogs_subs?date=1139398923
Line: 1, Column: 29
Source Code:
clickOnLink('subid19604247', 'javascript:doLoadf(33,19604247,1363666) target=

Error: missing ; before statement
Source File: javascript:doLoadf(33,19604247,1363666) target=
Line: 1, Column: 29
Source Code:
doLoadf(33,19604247,1363666) target=

They only occur when I click on a feed item. They don't occur when I click on a folder of feeds.

Also, using standard Firefox, I don't get the errors? Very Odd!

Broken bloglines. I've reverted to the standard Firefox version much to my dismay. Even tried disabling all of my extensions and everything.

like the girl at the bottom here can we get a better clipping path around her thighs

Sorry Neilio, I tried to create a new profile and still have no luck? Bloglines does not want to play - it's very annoying, considering you don't have the problem!

Oh, btw, I'm fully upgraded with my OS and other software.

Thanks for your help :)

Up and down arrows dont work. Any ideas?

Any chance the original 1.5 build can be made available? On my G5 Panther, Firefox 1.5.0.1 (Official build, not G5 optimised) was a mess.

Particularly there was a major issue with the windows, which kept jumping around and re-aligning themselves as if magical magents were pulling them around. I had to roll back to 1.5.

I've been having exactly the same problem with Bloglines since I updated to this build of FF 1.5.0.1, even after reinstalling it and creating a brand new profile: no extensions, no preference settings altered, etc.

I have even tried changing my Bloglines options regarding window use (same vs. new, etc.); no luck.

Just FYI.

I'm running the build with the "standard" ("Firefoxy") widgets, I believe: Firefox-ppx970-1501.dmg is the name of the downloaded file.

On Bloglines.com, I click on one of the feeds in the "My Feeds" list that appears in the frame on the left. Instead of displaying that feed's unread entries in the main frame on the right, FF opens a tab that says (Untitled) and then shows "Done" in the status bar. The content of the main frame is unchanged, and the same number of entries remain unread for that feed, so Bloglines isn't registering the selection. (BTW, this happens regardless of whether there are unread entries for a given feed: clicking on any feed's name in the "My Feeds" list produces the same result.)

This problem has occurred with Bloglines since I first installed the 1.5.0.1 G5-optimized build on the day you made it available, but I've had no such difficulties on any other site. All previous G5-optimized FF builds have worked fine with Bloglines.

Today I moved my working ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox folder to the Desktop and installed a fresh copy of the optimized G5 build, which of course created a brand new profile. Same problem with Bloglines.

So I restored my working ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox folder, downloaded and installed Mozilla's Firefox 1.5.0.1 release, and Bloglines works just fine, displaying the feed's unread entries in the main frame on the right.

As it stands now, I'm running Mozilla's FF to access Bloglines.com, and your G5-optimized FF everywhere else -- a PITA, of course. Help! (And thanks very much for all the optimized builds -- they're great! :-)

I was using the G5 version with Aqua widgets. I wasn't able to click on any of the links for "my blogs" to actually read any feeds. Like someone else said - when I clicked one, an empty tab would open instead.

Just for additional reference, the G4 Aqua build works just fine for me. It's the G5 Aqua that seems to be having problems.

Cheers,
Dalton

P.S. Out of curiosity, I downloaded and tried firefox-ppc970-1501-aqua.dmg with Bloglines, and the problem as I described it in my previous posts is exactly the same in this build.

Then I downloaded and tried the latest nightly G5 Firefox that's available here, 20060207-FX.dmg. Poof! The problem has disappeared in this G5 build and Bloglines works exactly as it should.

Hopefully this additional info will help you track down and eliminate the glitch in the current G5 Firefox 1.5.0.1 release. Thanks in advance! :-)

Hi, I have just installed this optimized Version. Great!!! Tabs are slower than in Safari, but however it's Firefox!

What about an autom. Updatefunction such as in the original FF version? This would be great. Or at least a notification.

Ok,
Turned on smooth scrolling and my page up and down keys stopped working. Turned it off and they still broke.
Started a new profile - fixed. Turned on ss - broken
Any ideas?

There's no reason that these builds can't be called Firefox, calling them DeerPark is just stupid.

Hundreds of Linux distributors include their own optimised builds of Firefox and don't call their builds Deerpark or Whorehouse or whatever mozilla's code name for the latest build is.

Stop being a stupid ass and build them with the proper name.

Many Thanks, of course. I was wondering why I shouldn't just compile my own optimized version of firefox whenever they release the code? Probably the obvious answer 'you should if you want to.' But I was also wondering what sort of benchmarks there are out there to compare performance.

Thanks again,
J

Bookmark Synchronizer 1.02 doesn't work with 1.501. When you built 1.5, how did you get an updated version? It sure doesn't seem to be supported anymore... sigh. Thanks for your good work!

The G5 build feels a lot faster to me on my rev. 2 dual G5 tower. Thank you!!

Well done - a solution to the up and down arrows seemingly not working on the keyboard is to go to preferences --> Advanced --> General Tab and under Accessibility UNCHECK (yes uncheck) alllow text to be selected with keyboard.

Hi,

Now that Camino 1.0 has been released, what should be my default browser ?

tweaked FF1.5 or standard Camino ?

Any thoughts ?

Re: Comment #9: Firefox-ey icon

I grabbed this icon. I like the "official" icon, but this one is nice too. I prefer it to the naked globe provided here as a substitute for the official icon.

I took the firefox icon linked to in comment #9 and added a white "G5" on top of it, so it looked more like the ones supplied with the builds here, and was more clear what one was running.

If you'd like me to make a "G4" one, and/or supply either of the ones I made, let me know. I'd be happy to.

#35, that just depends on whether or not you need the extensions. If you do not use them, Camino is MUCH faster than any optimized (or not) version of Firefox because it`s written in Cocoa.

Um...I'm a big fan of the old G4 build, but I just installed the new one. Deer Park doesn't launch on my Powerbook anymore. It bounces in the dock once, and nothing happens. What's going on here?

Awesome job, got the G4 optimized with non aqua look and I must say it is much better then the standard Firefox. The icon is neat with the G4 logo in the middle and unlike some of these people, I like the deerpark name. Great job and please continue!

Great work. I've been a big fan of your G5-optimized builds for awhile.

Does anybody know why clicking and holding the mouse button down on a page in Firefox sends processor usage through the roof? (Check Activity Monitor) It seems to be a problem with the "official" and the G5-optimized builds. I keep hoping they'd fix it with each build they release...

This DeerPark build (1.501) breaks the "drop a URL into a bookmarks toolbar folder" functionality that is in the regular build. Instead of going into the folder the URL is placed as an individual bookmark in the toolbar.

Thanks for the great idea of optimizing these builds. I am using the 1.5.01 build on my G4 powerbook now. Any idea if you will be releasing an Intel optimized build?

Also how can I have Firefox and Deer Park coexhist on the same machine and still set Deer Park as the default browser? By checking make firefox my default browser it uses firefox.app instead of deer park.app like I want.

It definitely seems faster than FF regular, but a lot of images of pages are broken for me, that is, that don't appear at all. I don't recall tweaking any of the settings so I can't imagine why this would be happening. (Everything else displays correctly.)

I'm using an 1.8 iMac G5, if that makes any difference (from a Power Mac G5).

I noticed an amazing speed increce when I used the your version on my iMac G5. Thank you!

Thanks. No problems with bloglines like others are reporting. I'm using the G4 Firefoxy icons build for my Powerbook.

I don't know why, but some images and formatting on Amazon don't display, like the the stars for the ratings and the whole top of the page. This has been puzzling me for a long time. If anyone has the answer, on how to fix this, please let me know. I have to use Safari for Amazon.

BTW, I love DeerPark and have been using it for over a year I think.
Thank you!

So sad. Deerpark fails to launch with console message "can't open library: /usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib" on Powerbook G4 running 10.3.8.

Is there any way we can get a G4-optimized build with the normal Firefox form widgets? I'm a web developer, and it would be foolish for me to use a browser that displays form widgets differently than my entire audience. (Yeah, I know most of them are using MSIE anyway, but still...)

Thanks for doing this! While I appreciate the speed, I would request that you stop calling them "DeerPark", as doing so causes many third-party extensions to stop working. Actually, they work fine, but you can't install the extensions because they think that they are incompatible. The problme is that "DeerPark” refers to an earlier - developer build of Firefox, and thus confuses the extensions into thinking that I'm running the wrong version of Firefox. The only way to fix it is to run the standard Firefox build and then install the extensions, and then switch back. That is a bit of a pain!

Thank You for Your great work! :D

I tried the G4 optimized Firefox 1.5.0.1 and since it is incredibly faster on my Mac than the official build it's my standard browser now. :-)

Is there any easy way to change the localization of Your build of Firefox 1.5.0.1 to a different language?

I would suggest the following to Kerim Friedman, who posted on 5 April that it was "a bit of a pain" to launch the non-optimized standard build of Firefox in order to load extensions before they are available in the Deer Park optimized version: Gain some freakin' perspective in your life, sonny. Do you honestly find it all that difficult to launch the standard Firefox once a week or so, in order to perform such simple and relatively brief tasks? Perhaps you can ask a concerned family member to come over and do that for you, while you avert your gaze. Then they can cut your food into bite-sized pieces for you, and maybe even pre-chew them a bit -- 'cuz, y'know, mastication is also a bit of a pain. Good grief...

1.5.0.2 is out... it'd be great if a grep could be done through the menu code such that the instances of "FireFox" in the menus could be replaced with Deer Park as well, not just the name on the .app ...

Great work!

Any chance that you'll make an optimized version of 1.5.0.2?

I like the aqua forms that are built in, a lot! I noticed that you have implemented them in the Intel 2.0 build. I want a 2.0 build of FF for my G5 with the aqua forms. What do I need to do to get the aqua form widgets in a 2.0 G5 build of FF?