Any problems with 'Deer Park' (i.e., Universal binary Firefox)?

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Any problems with 'Deer Park' (i.e., Universal binary Firefox)?

Anyone running Deer Park? I d/l'ed it last night and it crashed onn first launch but now seems to be working fine... any known issues?

20" 2GHz Intel Core Duo iMac 2Gb RAM 250Gb, PowerMac G4 MDD, 12" G4 PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4.5), New to this Intel machine! MacBook Pro on Order!

Posted on Feb 24, 2006 9:22 AM

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myflyertrains

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Feb 24, 2006 9:40 AM in response to cbd2

I have been using this Alpha for about a month as my primary browser. I have had it freeze occasionally, crash a time or two. Also, sometimes the scroll wheel / roller quits working on the current window. If you open a new window, then it works on it, but still not the old one. Minor...

All in all, I think this app is pretty stable. It is however just an Alpha, not even a Beta, so we are talking a very early development release here, so this probably should not be used for mission critical work.

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cbd2 Author

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Feb 24, 2006 11:43 AM in response to myflyertrains

The version I dl'ed quoted a 17 Jan 2006 build, I believe. but I understand that the next official release will be the UB version. Just a few problems thus far... I've just become too accustomed to Firefox to switch back to Safari because it's a UB. DP certainly seems fast enough... I did rename it to Firefox because I had a few problems with it being the 'default' browser before renaming...

I would certainly like to see Apple put in a Universal discussion group - not just for Apple products, though, so I suppose that they would be unlikely to do that.

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Feb 26, 2006 5:50 AM in response to cbd2

I use the Deer Park beta without any problems - even my most popular extensions work flawlessly.

I noticed the scrolling problem too, Googled a bit and found a solution:

Open a new Firefox tab or window, type about:config where you would normally type an address. Type 'mousewheel' to filter out other entries and lookup:

mousewheel.withnokey.numlines and change the setting to 1 or 2 (it influences how fast pages scroll, so you can set it to your liking)

mousewheel.withnokey.sysnumlines is set from true to false on my system.

You should not even have to close or exit Deerpark for it to work, but to be on the safe side, just restart the application.

20" iMac Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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