I was wanting to mess around a bit with SVG today and so ended up downloading Mozilla Deer Park Alpha 2 for Mac OS X.
In case you don’t know, Deer Park is the code name for the trunk development of Firefox and is basically a preview of Firefox 1.5 (see the roadmap for more details). Among other things, it features performance enhancements, a redesigned Preferences dialog, SVG support, drag and drop reordering of tabs, and a new software update system. For the full scoop, check out the release notes.
I backed up my Firefox profile before installing of course.
I am impressed with it so far. The SVG support is nifty (although incomplete and buggy) but what I really liked was that it seems to take up about half as much memory as Firefox did on my PowerBook. Nice.
For those of you who did not grow up on the East Coast of the U.S., the title of this post is a play on the old Deer Park Spring Water ads (“Deer Park – that’s good water!”).
I concurr that it is a good browser. I really enjoy the zip that it has. I mean great response time! I have not tried the drop and drag tab function but it has been a pleasure to use this version of the engine so far. I still haven’t completely replaced FF 1.0.5 as I am waiting for the Password Composer to become compatible with Deer Park.