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Are You Ready For Mozilla’s Minefield?
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Over at C/net they piqued my curiosity when they mentioned a new browser from the mozilla folks called Minefield. In their assessment they claimed that Minefield is some 10% faster than Chrome. With this in mind, I downloaded a copy to see for myself.
Before you get all excited and run to your download button, let me just say this. Minefield is alpha software. It doesn’t look any different than Firefox 3 and some of the add-ons you have may not work properly. In fact, none of mine worked at all.
Is it faster? I don’t see it. But how can you even see 10% faster to begin with? 
Anyway, you can read more about Minefield here and download a copy here.
Have fun.
Comments welcome.
5 Comments
erik
October 24th, 2008
at 12:26pm
ehh, I think ill wait for at least beta….but im confused….are they going to have 2 broswers? Minefeild and Firefox? I dont get it…
Ron Schenone
October 24th, 2008
at 1:04pm
I think it will turn into the next version of Firefox.
Exothermic Reaction
October 24th, 2008
at 8:42pm
Mozzilla definitely needs to do something to speed up their browser(s). I’ll getting tired of the script is taking too long messages when I have more than a dozen tabs open. As a windows programmer it seems that all tabs are using a single message polling loop.
The browser code seems to be taking on more functionality implemented as scripts instead of native executable code.
One of the reasons I originally switched to Firefox was that it was so much faster than IE. But since 2.011 or so, I just do not feel the speed difference anymore.
Exo
andy
October 26th, 2008
at 3:19pm
“peaked”?
The word is “piqued” my friend.
Ron Schenone
October 26th, 2008
at 5:21pm
Thanks Andy.