Umm... I think your G5-optimised link is broken?

your link to the G5-optimized build is broken; could you fix? thanks!

G5 build is not found...?

Thank you for these builds!

Speaking personally, I'd love to see your theme updated for Firefox 2.0.

Thank you thank you thank you thank you :)

Thank you for this update and for your suggestions. As for your theme, it's very nice and I look forward to using it with BonEcho!

I'd love to use your theme if you optimize and finish it for Firefox 2.0 I think it'd look wonderful with Fission and make my Mac oh-so-much-more sexier.

I have the same problem with your build as I did with the official Firefox one - I get a message saying "A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time."

I don't have any other applications running, I restarted my computer... I can't think of what else to do. Help?

Thank's a lot! Just a quick question - how come your close, min and max buttons are all nice and white. I love the look and would love to have it myself!!

How is the Intel Optimized build of BonEcho different than the official Firefox Universal build besides the widgets?

Man these extensions are so awesome, you just took FF one step closer to replacing Safari for me! Thanks.

Nice! Will grab a copy for my various Macs and will spread the word via the blog.

Thanks for busting your hump on this stuff.

I love the optimized version for Intel. Thank you! However, I'm having problems with sites not recognizing my browser as FireFox (such as iLike.com and http://www.google.com/notebook/download).

Is there any solution to this problem?

How are these builds optimized? What makes them different than the official firefox release for OSX? Will they run faster/better than the official versions?

Great. I was waiting for this release. Thanks

The Mactel version keeps hanging on startup. The menubar appears then that's it. I have to keep force-quitting it.

Using a 2 GHz MacBook.

I really like the theme you are working on.

Excellent builds. Crazy fast on my C2D iMac.

You know what's really strange...you recommend the EXACT set of extensions/themes I use and recommend to others as well. Tab Mix Plus, Nightly Tester Tools (for those who know what they're doing), Stop and Reload, Fission, and Pinstripe are all my standard repertoire of FireFox add-ons. Great minds think alike!

I definitely like your theme. Very nice work. Looking forward to a release...

:)

thanks! unfortunately this build - like the official 2.0 one - keeps crashing on my imac g5 (os x 10.3.9) when i add a bookmark and then click the top menu (in order to go to "manage bookmarks"). i had to go back to 1.5.0.7 because of this, and so far i have not found any other reports about this or a solution for that problem.

the other ff 2.0 "bug" i noticed (not tested with your build): apple-1, etc. is a good shortcut for switching between open tabs. with ff 2.0 this now does not work any more on some sites like youtube without having to click somewhere on each page first - which obviously makes this shortcut less useful.

but specially this bookmark/crash bug is a problem for me - anyone knows why this is happening/how it can be fixed...? (the mozilla forums seem not to be accessible, and there seems to be no easy way to submit a bugreport.)

Hey,

I think your site kick ass.
the G4 build works great!!
thank you for your work.

like the old school naked women ------->

très bon

There is a small problem with this build: Some sites are not shown correctly (in particular the game itself). The official version does show the site correctly. The site is http://www.sudokucraving.com
Or is this a problem of the aqua build?

Pingu

Thanks and I definitely like your theme, really neat. How to be notified when it's available?

I'm afraid the G5 link is still is broken.
BUt thatnk you su much for your work. There are a lot of people out there who appreciate it.

thx

Thanks for the G5 version! ... noticeably zippier than one-size-fits-all FF2.0 on my iMac G5.

I think you will like these 50 best firefox extensions
Not sure how many of them will work on a Mac though.

How about a build for Intel based Windows computers?

I LOVE that theme! I'd really like to see it released soon, it makes Firefox look a lot better.

Nice one, thanks! It works well for me on my G5. I'm still not rid of it, but I think I'm seeing the beachball less on GMail. :-)

Nicely done!
Some of my friends have been complaining about slow Firefox on Mac, and now their saviour is here!

Many thanks - really like these builds! The Aqua widgets rock.

Excellent builds! It works way fast on my Macbook. However, The build can mess up in some other encoding pages, such as:
http://sports.sina.com.cn/
It's a Chinese Webpage, the characters in the list and the buttons are displayed as "???", which is supposed to be normal characters as those in the webpage. However the original builds with "Aqua Firefox Set" works just OK.

May I ask for a solution? Since I am not master in this. Thanks so much!

Excellent builds! It works way fast on my Macbook. However, The build can mess up in some other encoding pages, such as:
http://sports.sina.com.cn/
It's a Chinese Webpage, the characters in the list and the buttons are displayed as "???", which is supposed to be normal characters as those in the webpage. However the original builds with "Aqua Firefox Set" works just OK.

May I ask for a solution? Since I am not master in this. Thanks so much!

This is fantastic, thank you so much for the update. The extensions are also fantastic recommendations, I never knew about the nightly build one up to now and it is awesome! Thanks again.

>150 gigabytes of bandwidth in just over 5 hours

ehm, torrents?

I love the theme, please update for Firefox2 :)

In fact there should be torrent for each file here which would greatly help in your hosting bandwidth and download speed.

Congratulations for release!

I have a Blue and White G3, running 10.3.9, any advantage for me to try one of these versions?

Could add back in the ability to (from the Tools Menu / Options) block 3rd party cookies?

thanks!!!

Thanks for doing the build. A vote from me for your theme to be updated with FireFox 2.0.

One question, I remember seeing on the web a version of BonEcho with sporting a new icon. One with the firefox around the apple icon. Does anyone know where I can get this icon? I tried searching for it but to no avail. I thought it was an awesome icon for Bon Echo!

i'm sort of new to this. after i download the optimized intel version can i delete the original firefox?

It's possible to translate this optimized firefox to another languages?

Are you try to contact with mozilla foundation to support officialy your work?

Two things are very interesting.

Is there a packaged version of your Apple builds? I have tried building a Mac version from the stock FF sources, but it never seems to work. I would love to set up my own build environment.

Thanks so much for the customized FF. -I actually stopped using 1.5 because it was so crazy slow, esp w/ multiple tabs.

So far the G4 one seems great.

It's too bad you don't run ads, I'd defintely click on 3 or 12 to thank you for the Firefoxy-Awesomeness you are providing.

Cheers.

Flash is broken in my download. I tried deleting all the flash plugins loaded in my system, but a reinstall of the universal flash player didn't help re-invigorate it like some others have suggested. I do like the improved speed, but with so many sites out there using integrated flash, I need that working before I'll ever use BonEcho again.

What about those of us that wish to uninstall the Bon Echo version? What do I need to do to go back to regular Firefox?

The theme looks good, I'd like to have it in the rotation if you finish it up.

It destroyed the Preferences of the official Firefox 2.0 at my MacBookPro.

for example at "Tabbed Browsing" error <menuitem....>. Doesn't show the preferences!

How can I uninstall it?

I opend a Bug for the intel build. I believe those compile flags should be default for the intel part of the universal binairy. It's bug 358402(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358402)
If you agree you could probably do the patch yourself. Let me know :)

Thanx for the help.

The error extension is TabbedPreferences. Seems that its not working properly with v2.0.

Please put Firefox in your user agent string. Sites such as my.nytimes.com thinks BonEcho is a non-conforming browser because it doesn't advertise that it is a Firefox-based browser. Right now I am spoofing the user agent string using user agent switcher as follows:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061025 Firefox/2.0 BonEcho/2.0

New to BonEcho (2.0), and I'm looking for a solution to sync bookmarks. Could someone post a suggestion, haven't found anything yet via google.

Thank you! Waiting for the new theme too :-)
BTW, is there an easy way to remove the "(Build 0000000000)" that appears in the title bar?

How do your builds differ from the optimized builds found here:

http://www.furbism.com/firefoxmac/

?

methinks the G4 links are broken....

I'm grateful for these G4-optimized and Aquafied builds -- but I'm temporarily stuck with 1.5.0.x, due to dependence on a different Session Manager (SessionSaver2) which is reported incompatible with FF2 (which I do want to move to), and which stored sessions cannot be inherited by Tab Mix Plus (which I also want to move to).

I'm wondering how much chance there might be of an Aquafied and G4-optimized build of the 1.5.0.7 which terminated that tree? I'm hoping, as I understand there to be some relatively significant stability patches relative to 1.5.0.6, and since there should be no further updates to plague you a few days later... ;-)

MacTed if you use the Nightly tester tools add-on you can turn off the version checking and run any extension you want. Although they are not garanteed to work 100%, lots of the extensions work it is just that the creators have not updated the file to say "it works with 2.0".

Oh and thanks so much for the G5 build.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061025 BonEcho/2.0

The site "http://www.websudoku.com/" displays differently on Firefox 2.0 and BonEcho 2.0

(At least on my machine)

Thank you, thank you!!

I won't be using the Nightly Tester Tools, because I am really not that advanced an FF user, and prefer to keep things relatively simple and "as released" -- and because it has been my experience that plugin incompatiblity is usually proven true with such major rewrites as FF2 vs FF1.5...

The most troublesome extension I use is SessionSaver.2, which has been abandoned by its developer, after he declared that it was explicitly incompatible with FF2, but that its features had been written into FF2. Now that FF2 is out, it appears that SS.2's feature set is only partly incorporated, but the incompatibility is real (though perhaps not as severe as originally thought), without patching..

One person has produced a slightly patched version of SS.2 which at least allows the ability to reload saved sessions, which is the most important thing to me. Another person claims to have entirely recoded SS.2 for FF2, but was not able to figure out where/how to upload.

I will be testing the first of these shortly, with the G4-optimized build of FF2 -- wish me luck!

When I click a link with right-click, and that I select "open a new window" in the contextual menu, I have to wait for two or three seconds. In 1.5.0.7 and before, it was immediate.
How can I make this with 2.0. (PPC G5)
Thanks you

I'm running OS 10.4.8 on a MacBook Pro, and I just updated to Firefox 2.0. Now I can't seem to do something that I always used to do: When
clicking on a link (like one of my toolbar bookmarks), I like to hold down the mousepad thingy until a menu pops up with options like "Open in a new window." What happened? Thanks!

I can not get flashplayer to install to G4. It installs to the firefox program. Any suggestions?

Awesome! Thanks Neil. I knew it only be a matter of time...

I would like to see something that will made firefox's address bar behave like safari's. In the sense if you do shift up/down, it actually highlights the address bar instead of going through the damn history list

Your G4 build does not work on a G4 running OS 10.2.8. The program simply will not load. If your builds require 10.3.x or higher, you might want to mention that somewhere. By comparison, the general release of 2.0 downloaded from getfirefox.com works just fine on the same G4.

Your theme is awesome! We all are waiting for it!

"Do you like this theme I've been working on?"

Hell yeah!

"These are non-official builds..."

Is there a chance they could get accepted by Mozilla Foundation somehow? I think these ones are way better for the end users of OSX to use. Could you maybe join Mozilla for this?

ever since i updated ive been having this problem: command+w closes the tab, but if it is the only tap it does not close the window. I thought it had something to do with tab mix plus, but i disabled all my extensions and it still doesnt work. do you know anything about this issue? intel build.

and something else: i edited the config so that firefox doesn not use more than 60.000 memory. I checked the real memory in activity monitor, and i still get to use more. is there any way to fix this?

Great site.

Well, this is slightly disappointing. Opening new tabs results in blank spaces, aside from a couple of icons on the left side of the page. Running an iMac G4 with Tiger. Where, exactly, are the tabs? I suspect I'll have to go back to the standard Mozilla download. Appreciate the effort, but it appears lost on me.

I'm viewing your wonderful page, from Australia, on my 333MHz G3 (beige) with FireFox 2 ...

I think 1.5.0.7 was possibly the best build that worked relatively flawlessly on my G3 and G4s. But, hey, 2 isn't bad but with only 192Mb RAM, what can I say?

cheerz

anything on the memory leak yet? i compared this bon echo release (intel) to safari, and safar iused 60 when firefox uses 140 memory... is there a way to fix this?

Hi, thanks for the builds. They are great! But I have some problems with the Intel-build with aqua form widgets. Some buttons are only shown half others (like in GMail) are not changed and look like windows. The aqua forms are really nice but only the Firefoxy form widgets work perfect. Otherwise I'd like to use that special aqua version. :)

Can anyone tell me the difference between Firefox and aqua form widgets?

Ooh, I'm so glad I found a build with at least look-alike aqua widgets! It was to the point where I wanted to switch to safari! that's bad. Anyway, is there any way to change the name "BonEcho" from showing up in the menu bar? I renamed the app and changed the icon, but I'd really like to change it in the menu bar... thanks!

I second the request from Rich Blinne. Please add Firefox/2.0 to the user agent string, the default is only BonEcho/2.0 which causes problems with several sites such as Xbox.com and mail.yahoo.com (BETA).

I manually changed the value of general.useragent.extra.firefox to Firefox/2.0

Thanks for the great build! It runs much faster and smoother than the default build.

I got a G4 PowerBook and it doesn't work with new tab on the same windows it keeps creating another window and another... that's something worng on bonEcho? I got the default configuration.

This build is truly great! Thanks a lot!
I don't know what you guys actually change or anything, but it surely works. Fantastic is the least I can say!

This is absolutely amazing. Reduced constant CPU usage which was around 35%-40% to around 12%. Thank you so much!

It would be awesome if your builds autoupdated like the official releases, is that possible?

Sorry but it is Really really unstable and extremely strong BUGGY strong on my imac G5, as is the regular version of FF 2. Have to force quit both to get out, lots of problems for me.

Going back to 1.5 until improved/all the many many many bugs fixed.

Love it, much faster than the official build but cannot play any Flash content.

Any hints?

is this a modified version of the official firefox or a completely different build?

One "bug" i have encounter is when used with the "PDF Browser Plugin" from "Schubert|it". The "open in Acrobat reader" (diamond shaped) does not work.
Yoram

Very nice work. Any chance you could compile a similar version for Thunderbird?

I don't know if this has anything to do with your build, but every so often FF will start to get really slow and reaches something like 400 MB of my 512 MB of memory and 90% CPU. I'm running a 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo.

Two bugs (not sure if they've already been mentioned), sometimes when opening a new window,refresh button (and less commonly, the stop button) aren't there. There are horizontal lines in their places. You have to hover the mouse over the spots for them to come back. Also, sometimes I can't type anything in a text box, and have to close and reopen the window for it to work. Other than that, thanks so much, I'm loving this browser!

Hey! Great job!

I just have one question - why does it say the (Build 00000000000) on the header - next to Bon Echo, and how can I take it off?

Never mind Pinstripe and GrApple... what theme are you using in your screenshot? I'm looking for a Firefox 2.0 theme that plays nice with the Milk theme for ShapeShifter.

I've gone through the bundle and have been pretty successful @ turning these builds into FireFox look alikes (I love the widgets, btw.) Here's what you do:

Open (show package contents) the Bon Echo package
Edit info.plist
- Change "CFBundleGetInfoString" to read "Firefox 2.0, © 1998-2006 Contributors"
- Change "CFBundleName" to read "Firefox"
- Copy "document.icns" from Firefox bundle to contents/resources
- copy "firefox.icns" from Firefox bundle to contents/resources
- edit user agent (as specified in the blog)

Hey Neil, Just had a look at your theme for firefox. Looks
Cool....but why should Firefox try to look like Safari?
I think that a whole new original theme that would distinguish your Firefox builds from any other browser would be even COOLER. ;) Cheers and Merry Christmas. Tex

just an innnocent question: i'm new to mac, and i haven't decided yet between camino and ff, why should i use the optimized ff instead of camino?

Camino can't use Firefox extensions. If you don't care about extensions, give Camino a whirl.

Thanks, im downloading it right now.

Wow, very fast!

Also, that theme is great. Having that usable would solve all my old complaints about FireFox (slowness, which has been fixed here, and ugliness).

Hello, thanks for your contribution. But I want to ask how to compile it by my self. Because of I am a Chinese, I want to compile a Chinese version for my community. What document should I study?

Hi, your download link is 404: http://www.beatnikpad.com/firefox

Thanks for providing the build!

I am getting the same "can't type" in any field problem. Opening a new window may solve the problem.

The frequency of the problem has increased from occasional to regularly.

http://www.beatnikpad.com/firefox is still offline!? :(

Absolutely epic! Firefox is actually usable!

I have the same problem as Philip. The extension worked for two days, after that it will clear the window and not display anything. I tried to uninstall mozilla, delete the profile and extensions and reinstall, but no luck :(

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -profilemanager

You have to release, it's warm and pretty

Hello, thanks for your contribution. But I want to ask how to compile it by my self. Because of I am a Chinese, I want to compile a Chinese version for my community. What document should I study?info

THANKS for the G4 builds. Keep up the great work. You rock!

Thank you for this update and for your suggestions.
IM downloading it right now.

Hey thanks. Silly me for thinking a computer upgrade (to intel Mac) would make things faster! What was I thinking?

With your help firefox is now zipping along nicely.

Thanks again.

thank you

Plaket Thanks for the G4 builds. Keep up the great work. You rock! plaket imalat

great work

Thank you for this update keep them coming

thank you! the back/forward buttons on my logitech VX Nano are magically working again in Firefox/BonEcho after installing your version!

Any chance of the G4-optimized 2.0.0.12 build?