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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. A good summary of Linux on the desktop by avalys · · Score: 0, Troll

    However according to Hommey, these new faster and less sluggish builds of Firefox for Linux will be available only from Firefox 6 onwards and we expect the first beta of Firefox 6 to available only by September - October 2011.

    So, Firefox 1.0 came out in Fall 2004, and only in Fall 2011 will the Linux version be as fast as the Windows version?

    Only more evidence that Linux on the desktop is still a toy for masochistic nerds.

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  2. Re:YES! by larry+bagina · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do the math. Windows has 85-90% market share. Desktop Linux is < 1%. Even if 100% of linux users used firefox and 1% of windows users used firefox, Windows users would still outnumber Linux users.

    Firefox is basically a windows program that they slowed down with XUL shit in a half-assed attempt to be cross-platform.

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