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Minefield offers custom builds of Firefox 3

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Jul 4th, 2008

If you think Firefox could run a little faster on your Mac, then you might want to download one of BeatnikPad's custom builds of Firefox 3. "Minefield" (previously known as BonEcho for pre-3.0 releases) is Neil Lee's custom build of Firefox. He is currently offering custom builds for:
  • Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for Intel
  • Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for PowerPC G5
  • Minefield (Firefox) 3.0 for PowerPC G4
Neil Lee has been offering custom builds of Firefox for many years now. They can make Firefox run a bit faster and smoother on older Macs. You can download them for free (though donations are accepted) from the BeatnikPad website.


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Tags: BonEcho, builds, custom, Firefox, Firefox 3.0, Firefox3.0, G4, G5, Intel, PowerPC

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Universal Binary

Optimized Firefox 2.0 for G4, G5, and Intel Macs

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Oct 26th, 2006

Whenever there is a new release of Firefox I anxiously await Neil Lee's optimized version. Neil aims to please, and he just announced on his blog that he has whipped up optimized versions of Firefox 2.0 for G4, G5, and Intel Macs. Please keep in mind that this optimized version can't use the Firefox icon, or the Firefox name. You'll see a variant of the icon to the right, and the app will identify itself as BonEcho. Why? As Neil explains the name and icon are for official builds only, and this ain't official, baby.

One of the nice touches in these builds are the Aqua form widgets, but there is a version with the Firefox default widgets if that's your cup 'o tea. Anyway, get to downloading and thanks, Neil!

Tags: beatnik, bonecho, firefox, neil lee, NeilLee

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