The Burning Edge
 

This is an excellent website, it basically lists all the changes in the nightly Firefox builds.
If you like living your internet life on the edge then you should try some nightly builds, I do and I'm seeing the future of Firefox right now.
Some of this stuff is running Cairo, which is the OpenGL interface to Firefox, it's as if Longhorn was here already. :eek:
Be careful though, some bugs introduced in these builds can be very dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.

Check out the URL to see the 30-40 new features and fixes that happen every night. :)
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/

IE7?
As far as I'm concerned you can stuff it.

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I have used some builds of firefox, i had a really bad one where the bookmark bar was cascading with the address bar and objects on websites were all over the place :O

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So how do you download the latest version for today (I've got a spare OS at the moment, worth a play)?

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Here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/

The latest as of 8th June is here:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...6-08-07-trunk/

I'll install later. :)

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Cheers, I'll have a play

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I bet you've got a Firefox duvet cover, and if not, I bet you're trying to plan some way of creating one using PHP.

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Unless M$ make it that you HAVE to download & install it when you update your system ;)

Or, if anything else comes out for Windows that you want, and it says "IE7 is required".

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I have a Firefox mug, I didn't make that with PHP though.

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Repeat after me, "It's only a browser ... It's only a browser ... It's only a browser"

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For the Firefox addicts.

;) :D

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Oh look, another good thread that's being turned into a Firefox "v" IE debate ;)

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A wallpaper for most users of Internet Explorer.

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Unfortunatley with language in it that makes it potentially unsuitable for this forum, or for work.

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:rofl: You are a very bad person. :D

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Now, THE TOPIC please...

Richard, what would you recommend somebody should do if they wanted to sample a cutting-edge nightly build but hadn't the first clue about managing unstable and potentially damaging software? Are some builds 'safer' than others (and can you choose which to install)? Can you load up a version of FF (for either Windows or Mac OS) in such a way that it's isolated from the rest of the PC so as to avoid damage? I'd love to see the future but I don't want to wreck my computers (especially not the Windoze laptop, which belongs to work).

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You could try using VMWare or VirtualPC then install a copy of Windows on it.

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Now that's a darned good idea ... I have V-PC on my Mac. :)

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Can Macs chroot? *goes off to check*

Edit: Yes they can. It may be a bit tedious to do, but essentially chrooting gives you a copy of your environment that you can work in without cacking up in the original.

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Wouldn't XP SP2's Data Execution Protection stop it from damaging other software?

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I'd be worried if it could do that on Chris's Mac :D

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Nope, I remember one nightly was so unstable it deleted everything in it's directory when it was run.
Despite the risk the new features are usually worth trying though.