Testing Minefield browser on Gentoo

October 29th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal | Print Testing Minefield browser on Gentoo

I recently got to know on twitter about minefield. Its basically Firefox 3.1 beta release and its awesome. I use gentoo linux 2008.0 (AMD 64 bit version) and I had been using a 32 bit firefox (2.0.0.14) on it so I can use flash. I had also installed a flock 2.0 beta to use firefox 3 like features. I could never however get firefox 3.0 working on my system. There would always be some .so file missing.

I was therefore pleasantly surprised when the tarball for minefield just worked. Flash works though other plugins and extensions (such as firebug) don’t. However the browser has a very smooth finish, is very fast and a pleasure to use. There is some problem with fonts on few pages sometimes (size not correct etc) but thats expected in a beta release. However I have been using minefield as my primary browser for about a week and its been great so far.

Do give it a try and let me know what you think. Remember, its a beta and not a stable release.

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  • Random Guy

    Did you find/make a package for it? or just installed from source?

  • Random Guy

    Did you find/make a package for it? or just installed from source?

  • Prateek Dayal

    I just downloaded the tar.bz2 package, untarred it and ran ./firefox there … thats it .. so its a precompiled binary .. i have never so far compiled firefox ..

  • Prateek Dayal

    I just downloaded the tar.bz2 package, untarred it and ran ./firefox there … thats it .. so its a precompiled binary .. i have never so far compiled firefox ..

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