Optimized Firefox builds

November 11, 2004 at 11:33 am Mike 8 comments

Neil Lee has posted a G5 optimized build of Firefox 1.0 as well as a link to one optimized for a PowerBook or iBook G4 by Kai Rune. Detailed build instructions and a build configuration file are also available.

I built the G4 optimized version on my PowerBook G4 1.5 GHz. It took two hours and is 19.5 MB. The finished product runs noticeably faster than the unoptimized build, especially when opening windows & tabs.

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Written by Anonymous about 2010 years ago.

Nice to know we can optimize for the G4 and G5, but how about a report comparing the two? Any noticeable differences?
Written by mike about 2010 years ago.
I did some testing and found that the times are generally about 1 second faster (on a 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4). When reloading a page with no changes the redraw isn’t visible. Switching between tabs is instantaneous. Here are some speed comparisons.

Operation Optimized Official Build

Launch¹ 5s 6s

Load² 3s 4s

Open³ 1s 3s

From double-clicking the application until the window appears

Time it takes to load MacMegasite’s home page

Opening a link from URL Manager Pro, from selecting it in the dock menu until the window appears.
Written by Anonymous about 2010 years ago.

I tried to build the g4 optimized version on my iBook G4 800 and got the following error message:
configure: error: Your compiler does not follow the C++ specification for temporary object destruction order.
*** Fix above errors and then restart with “make -f client.mk build”
make: *** [/Users/anh/mozilla/Makefile] Error 1
Has anyone seen this?
Written by Anonymous about 2010 years ago.
You probably don’t have the 10.2 SDK installed. Try taking this line out of the .mozconfig file:

ac_add_options --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.2.8.sdk
Written by Anonymous about 2010 years ago.

Did you use GCC 4 on Tiger?

I was getting this while building on Tiger. I did not test with GCC 3.3.
Written by Anonymous about 2010 years ago.

What’s the difference between the trunk builds and the aviary builds?
Written by Anonymous about 2010 years ago.

Been looking for answer to this question for a long time.
Written by Anonymous about 2010 years ago.

trunk is the current development tree
aviary is the frozen release tree

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Operation	Optimized	Official Build
Launch¹	5s	6s
Load²	3s	4s
Open³	1s	3s