While I was over on the Firefox Builds forum looking for a solution to my update issues, I came across this interesting thread Safari Windows trashed Minefield.
June 17, 2007
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Been running into some trouble today trying to get the latest Bon Echo nightly build. Currently I am running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5pre) Gecko/20070615 BonEcho/2.0.0.5pre ID:2007061503. I get the update notfication screen: But when I click ‘Download & Install Now >>’ this is what happens: I checked over at Firefox Builds to see if this is a common issue. Now, there was an issue where the June 16th builds were not updating as well. However I did not see anything about this issue. So I’ve posted over there and see what happens.
Note: Most images can be viewed full size by clicking the image. I decided to download and take Safari for a ‘test drive’ today. Sadly, I was not that impressed with the browser. It does have a few nice features but they do not outweigh all the problems and general annoyances. So there are some features Firefox does not have. Safari displays a ‘progress/load bar’ in the address bar (see last image for example). Also, Safari will show a blue border around the active text box, including the address bar or search box. One other nice feature…