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Optimized International Firefox Builds From MOOX

Posted by timothy on from the well-mookie-here dept.

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.)

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  1. Any advantage for Gentoo? by crow · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Is there any advantage to these builds over the ones I get in my Gentoo system? I've already set my CFLAGS to optimize for my processor, but 20% sounds like a lot more than what I would normally expect from those changes. Or do the default builds include debugging or things that would be turned off in other distribution builds, as well?

  2. Testing criteria by scumbucket · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I noticed in the linked PDF file that his test CPU is an Athlon XP1700+ overclocked to 2.15GHz. A stock XP1700+ only runs at 1.4GHz, so that is a pretty hefty overclock. Seems to me it could be the overclock that is causing his 20% speed increase, not some special optimizations.

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  3. Re:Might be a bit of a dumb question, but... by crowdozer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What if they distributed an installer that checks your processor architecture then downloads and installs the appropriate executables?