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Firefox On Linux Gets Faster Builds — To Be Fast As Windows

Posted by timothy on from the gotta-have-a-benchmark dept.

dkd903 writes "Mozilla's Mike Hommey has announced on his blog that his team at Mozilla has finally managed to get the Linux builds of Firefox to use GCC 4.5 with aggressive optimization and profile guided optimization enabled. All this simply means that we can now expect a faster and less sluggish Firefox browser on Linux (both 32 bit and 64 bit systems)."

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  1. But no real 3d accelleration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Too bad Linux sucks so bad at 3D acceleration that Firefox is stuck in a CPU rendering world.