SillyDog701

[Fulvio]

It is funny that I found Deer Park so stable that I made it my default browser. Actually, I had little choicem because FF1.0.4 would not open any pages since I have had Deer Park on my HD, and it is not even installed. But Deer Park works fine.
And, truly the extentions should be kept to a minimum. Most won't work.
I am using FF1.0.4 now and it works fine, but I cannot have it default as long as Deer Park is present (in case anyone may wonder, I uninstalled NS8.01).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[Fulvio]

I got today's nightly, and it still works well. However two extentions were disable. There is the User agent Switcher 0.6.6 and FoxyTunes1.1.
Launchy3.8.0, which was working with the 5-24, was disabled.
I wonder what the setting of "disable common annoyances" in Content means.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050527 Firefox/1.0+

[Purple Lizard]

Please, please, please don't tell me that Deer park is the new name for FF and that it's just an alpha build name like Whistler or Longhorn.

Other than that seems stable and fast enough. Does this mean that after 1.04 or 1.05 it's straight to 1.1/1.2/1.3 like with the App Suite?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050402 Firefox/1.0.3

[dmbtech]

the actual alpha has been released now. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpar ... lpha1.html

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+ (dmb build)

[Gregor]

The actual alpha seems to be very stable and very, very fast, at least on my computer (much faster than FF 1.0.4 and alpha preview).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

[dmbtech]

Please, please, please don't tell me that Deer park is the new name for FF and that it's just an alpha build name like Whistler or Longhorn.

Other than that seems stable and fast enough. Does this mean that after 1.04 or 1.05 it's straight to 1.1/1.2/1.3 like with the App Suite?

Nope, deer park is just the 1.1 codename, it uses diferent branding so people know the diference and know that this is not stable release.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050106 Firefox/1.0 (dmb)

[Fulvio]

That's the same that was done with each decimal upgrade from 0.1 and on in the Phoenix days.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[Andrew T.]

The reason why this software release prominently uses the name "Deer Park" in lieu of Firefox and lacks the official Firefox logo is to discourage end users who should really be using Firefox 1.0.4 from using or "upgrading" to this alpha release instead.

In any case, I'm quite keen to try it out. Mozilla Firefox "Deer Park" 1.1 alpha actually implements about a year's worth of additional development over Firefox 1.0.x, and it's obvious that a lot of new features and changes have worked their way into this release. (Mozilla Firefox 0.9.x and 1.0.x were developed from an "aviary" development branch that had separated from the "trunk" in May 2004).

Are there any precautions to installing Firefox "Deer Park" 1.1 alpha alongside Firefox 1.0.4 without conflicts? Unlike my situation with Netscape and the Mozilla suite (where I've sometimes used over a dozen versions simultaneously), I've never had more than one Firefox version installed at the same time before.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

[beanboy89]

Are there any precautions to installing Firefox "Deer Park" 1.1 alpha alongside Firefox 1.0.4 without conflicts? Unlike my situation with Netscape and the Mozilla suite (where I've sometimes used over a dozen versions simultaneously), I've never had more than one Firefox version installed at the same time before.

Currently, I have Deer Park Alpha 1 and Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4 installed. Deer Park Alpha 1's default installation directory is [tt]C:\Program Files\Deer Park Alpha 1\[/tt] while Firefox 1.0.4's default installation directory is [tt]C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\[/tt]. I would have liked Deer Park Alpha 1 as a ZIP file, but they're no longer available in release builds.

The only thing to be concerned about is profiles. You should create a new profile, seperate from Mozilla Firefox's, for Deer Park Alpha 1, as alot has changed since Firefox 1.0.x.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050530

[Fulvio]

Are there any precautions to installing Firefox "Deer Park" 1.1 alpha alongside Firefox 1.0.4 without conflicts? Unlike my situation with Netscape and the Mozilla suite (where I've sometimes used over a dozen versions simultaneously), I've never had more than one Firefox version installed at the same time before.

I may have not entered anything at this board, but I did somewhere else.
I was using FF1.0.4 installed as my default browser. I used Deer Park from a zip file, and had a separate profile. The first sign of trouble was when I had set Firefox as my default browser for Copernic Agent Personal (a suite of search engines). With Deer Park on my computer, I was opening a totally frozen blank page in Firefox. If I changed the default to Deer Park, I could navigate perfectly well. Deer Park did affect other links, which would normally open in FF, if default. I don't like to have an alpha as default, although Deer Park has been good in every other way.
I tried three different nightlies with identical results, but I may try again.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)

[Andrew T.]

I've now tried "Deer Park" out, and although I'll stick with Firefox 1.0.4 as my default browser until the final version of Firefox 1.1 is out, it looks good!

I haven't tried the "sanitization" or fast back/forward features, but I have noticed improvements in a number of other areas.

One of the more significant (IMO) is that the long-standing title bar/taskbar icon bug on Windows 9x has been fixed! There is now no need to improvise fixes yourself to keep Firefox from looking like this:


The options dialogue is more convenient to use and is now arranged in a tab-like fashion.

Deer Park does seem a bit quicker than Mozilla Firefox 1.0.4. Loading time was a second faster on my machine.

As a side note concerning rendering, I noticed that on Deer Park, certain monospaced text (such as the "sdt" and "sdp" designations on this forum) displays in a larger size than they do on Firefox 1.0.4, and they do not change if I increase or decrease a page's text size from the browser. I'm not sure whether or not this is a bug.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+