Mozilla Minefield.

[effpeetee]

Is anybody else trying Mozilla Minefield 64 bit browser?

If so. any comments?

Frank

[primefalcon]

I do have a 64 bit capable computer however since I don't have more than 4GB of ram there's no point to me running a 64bit OS.... So I can't try minefield out... TBH I hadn't heard of minefield.... Goes and checked Wikipedia.....


ooooooh FF 3.7

The precursory builds of upcoming Firefox releases are usually codenamed "Minefield", as this is the name of the trunk builds. Development on the Mozilla trunk (mozilla-central) is currently directed towards Version 3.7.

Not bad, how are you finding it speedwise? I heard it's pretty fast

[effpeetee]

So far, no complaints. I have a 64 bit Dell with 4 gig RAM so it seems wise to use its 64 bit mode as I will probably add to the RAM.
Very few problems now although it was a bit tricky at first driver-wise.

I'll keep posted if I find any oddities.

EDIT: Seems very fast to me.

Frank

[drhowarddrfine]

I've been using Minefield since it came out long, long ago but only use it to view my sites or test anything new that comes out. Never had any issues but don't use it all day either.

[primefalcon]

not really 32 bit can handle 4 gigs of ram, its only when you go over 4 gigs that you need the 64 bit since 32 bit can't handle over 4 gigs...

ATM there are also major compatibility issues with 64 bit, it is however the future mostly since Microsoft wants it to be

[oracleguy]

not really 32 bit can handle 4 gigs of ram, its only when you go over 4 gigs that you need the 64 bit since 32 bit can't handle over 4 gigs...

Technically with 32-bit and 4GB of ram, you'll only be able to use between 3 and 3.5GB of it. It depends on the hardware in your computer and the motherboard. The rest of the memory address space is used for memory mapped I/O instead and can't be used as RAM. So if you have more than 3GB installed, you really should go to 64-bit.

ATM there are also major compatibility issues with 64 bit, it is however the future mostly since Microsoft wants it to be

:confused: Like what? Microsoft has little to nothing to do with pushing 64-bit, it is a necessary hardware requirement for more memory, it doesn't matter what OS.

Plus on x86-64 there are some notable performance increases you can get since there are more general processor registers you can use and you know you have SSE2 support so when compiling code the compiler can take advantage of those registers and instructions as well as any other instructions that were added with the P2, P3, etc.

64-bit Windows works really well and Linux 64-bit support has been even better for a lot longer.

[primefalcon]

A lot of things are being smoothed out but some things like flash are still... having issues..... Granted flash is a bucket load of problems in and of itself