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Optimized International Firefox Builds From MOOX
Nigel Wellington writes "Many of us have tried and are using the optimized builds of Mozilla Firefox made by MOOX. For those not aware, these builds perform roughly 20% faster than the official builds from Mozilla, are generally more stable and have extra features patched in. Well, the good news is that MOOX appears to now be making optimized builds that are localized as well to specific languages! This page has several localized builds already (German, Czech, Finnish) and by the looks of it many more are coming. If you have been looking for a solid localized build I strongly suggest these. The German M3 version has been awesome for me for the past 24 hours!" (These builds are Windows-only.)
IIRC, each build is optimised for a certain architecture. So a dowload for a Athlon would have different optimisations to a P4 download and one would probably not work on the other architecture. Mozilla just realease one build that will work with all processor types (well x86 for example). It would be confusing to most users to have to chose a specific build and the speed increase is probably not worth it.
Which is why they are not put back into source.
Mozilla release generic stuff, as you would, not good asking people to choose which CPU you have to use the intarweb.
Grab a CPUID app, find out your flavour of CPU (or just remember what one you bought) and d/l an optimised version!
I think quake 3 is some monster that runs certain branches of optimised code instructions based on processor... maybe...
So no source changes, just compiler sex.
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Moox isn't the only one providing custom builds (although I use them :) ), MozillaZine has a forum dedicated to custom builds (ThunderBird, SunBird, etc...). And if you can't find what you need there are several guides (and official ones) for configuring and building the source. I suppose the processor-specific optimizations are hidden somewhere too, bugzilla maybe?
Hm, I suppose you could check out this forum too...
I just finished reading This Thread at Mozillazine which has a pretty good discussion regarding TRUNK vs BRANCH vs Aviary Branch, etc.
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I tried expanding MOOX's zips over my existing installation, and only succeeded at breaking everything. OK, I admit that was dumb.
Mozilla has said with every official release that installing over older releases (even sec. updates like 0.9.x) is a Bad Idea (TM).
Especially when the only settings in Firefox that aren't profile-centric (that I know of, at least) are the search engine settings. Just c&p those, or spend the two or three minutes at Mycroft it takes to restore your search settings. :p
I can't wait to get home and test this out.