My Beta tolerance is back

I used to be a lover of beta software - the fresher the better. I fondly remember being a beta tester of some Mac Utilities including a virtual desktop package.

I have grown far more pragmatic in my old age, and now only put up with Beta versions of the following software:

• Software I am developing (hard to avoid)
• Open source projects where I am either an involved developer or at least intimately familiar with the internals and don't mind getting into the code.

But egged on by the fact that current development builds of firefox have built in SVG (like I'll ever need that) and that my pre-1.0 firefox is way out of date, I downloaded and installed (to a different directory) the latest nightly build of firefox (for linux) onto my (relatively out of date) redhat 9 box.

Rarely are you rewarded by beta versions with greater speed, but it is noticeably much faster. Even on my PIII sgi, firefox is starting to approach the speed of Internet Explorer (ducks).

I'll let you know how stable it is and how the nightly build of thunderbird are go.

Update: I can't actually *start* firefox now, but if I run the installer every time (about 40 seconds), it automatically starts firefox for me ;) It's quirky, but installing and launching together is still faster than launching my Firefox 1.0!!

Oh, and the occasional segfault...