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

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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To be present in firefox 6

[Anonymous Coward]

The optimisations will be enabled in Firefox 6... is that the version that comes out this week or the week after?

You poor deluded fools.

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft Internet Explorer is clearly superior in every way.

Look - it's a poster from 1996!

[dbIII]

There is this video card called the "Voodoo" which has decent 3D acceleration on linux and there is also one called the "Matrox Millenium". I've got no idea how you managed to get hold of Firefox in 1996 or managed to get your posts on Slashdot to us in 2011 but please stop bothering us here in the future about problems already solved back in your time.
Also sorry to disappoint you, but we don't have flying cars yet.

Re:Every improvement is highly needed, FF4 sux

[supersloshy]

Please mod this man up. These trolls need to be put to rest; if a bug as severe as that one actually existed, it would have been fixed a long time ago.