Unofficial Optimized Firefox Builds for Windows.

PangingJr · Jul 2, 2004, 08:07 AM

this is for your info, use these softwares at your own risk.

Unofficial builds of mozilla software Firefox builds.
Many of them are optimized to run on a specific CPU architecture.

Optimized Firefox Builds (moox) - http://moox.ws/tech/mozilla/

The freebird Browser Project - http://www.lmhess.com/freebird/

Unofficial nightly builds of mozilla software Firefox builds - http://pryan.org/mozilla/firefox/
(http://pryan.org/firebird/)

this's the about window of the latest TRUNK build (2004/07/01 - Mozilla 1.8a2) optimized by moox.
many of the extensions of 0.8 are working on this build but some of them are require manually installation.

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MozillaZine..
- Third Party/Unofficial Builds.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42&sid=

- Choosing a Build.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...p?t=56929&sid=

The Burning Edge: FAQ
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/faq.html

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Build your own...
Build Mozilla on Microsoft Windows XP.
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/build.html

JLP · Jul 2, 2004, 06:37 PM

Yeah I'm using the same optimized build from MOOX and it is working great. In Gentoo Linux I also have it compiled especially for AMD64 in 64-bits. Now I'm only waiting for some 64-bit build for Windows.

PangingJr · Jul 4, 2004, 12:13 PM

Checking these browsers speed at - http://www.numion.com/stopwatch
showing a very good speed improved of optimized builds of the firefox over the official build.

Firefox optimized builds - built by moox and the Freebird project.
and the official build...

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other browsers - the Opera and the IE.
(opera is still the fastest page loading under my net connection - dialup)

riles9262 · Jul 10, 2004, 01:51 AM

moox was fast for me, but is there a way to get extensions to work with it? They would not install (tabbrowser, ieview, mouse gestures) for me at all, or in the case of tbext, did not work..

PangingJr · Jul 10, 2004, 03:53 AM

go to the Firefox's location bar and type in about:config and hit enter key.

then locate the following Pref names and then change all of its value to 0.9

app.version
extensions.lastAppVersion
general.useragent.vendorSub

then D/L the extensions for FF 0.9 that you like to use and install it by hand...
most of the extensions that wrote for version 0.9 should work.

go to the home page of the author's so you can get the latest version,
then try to D/L it by using Save Link As or Save Link Target As in Mozilla,
save it (.xpi file) locally.

to install the extensions..
go to FF's menu -> Tools -> Extensions.
then drag/drop the .xpi file into the Extensions window.
close/exit the FF. then restart the FF and open the Extensions window and R-click on on each extension, select Options to config it. (some extensions creates a new menu for an easy configs)

note- always save your profile (just zip/rar the whole profile folder) so you can restore it if it's not working.

there're lots more tips/tricks for Firefox/Mozilla,
for you to customize it - both the LookAndFeel and speed/performances.
check it out or post your questions.

riles9262 · Jul 10, 2004, 04:38 AM

Thanks buddy, will try it when I get home.
I have the normal version configed nicely, but I knew that there would be some funny tricks to getting it working with the alternate builds

PangingJr · Oct 26, 2004, 11:56 AM

Sorry, old thread.

[FX] JTw Jay from Taiwan's Unofficial - Optimized Firefox builds.
http://pryan.org/firefox/jayfromtaiwan/blog/
http://pryan.org/firefox/jayfromtaiwan/blog/gecko.htm

(mostly using nightly builds) many of the bugs/patches fixes applied.
i've found this is to be one of another good Firefox build

Quote:

from - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...6f3df9fa146453

You need a new profile the first time you use my build since my builds are built by VC8
RELATED INFO

advB (Oxp GALFT SSE2):
# AMD Opteron
# AMD Athlon FX
# AMD Athlon 64
# Intel Xeon
# Intel Pentium M
# Intel Pentium 4
# Intel Celeron (1.7GHz - 2.8GHz)

advA (Oxp GALFT SSE):
# AMD Athlon XP
# AMD Athlon MP
# AMD Sempron
# AMD Duron (1.0GHz - 1.8GHz)
# Intel Pentium 3
# Intel Celeron (533MHz - 1.4GHz

basicA (Oxp GALFT):
# AMD Athlon
# AMD K6-2
# Intel Pentium 2
# Intel Pentium Pro
# Intel Pentium

Here are an example of configure arguments of the advA builds's

Quote:

about:buildconfig
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Configure arguments
--disable-ldap --disable-mailnews --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,w ebservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth --enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing '--enable-optimize=-Ox -fp:fast -GALFT -arch:SSE -c' --enable-strip --enable-strip-libs --disable-activex --disable-activex-scripting --disable-tests --disable-debug --disable-profilesharing --enable-single-profile --disable-accessibility --disable-installer --disable-dtd-debug --disable-glibtest --disable-gtktest --disable-freetypetest --disable-freetype2 --disable-toolkit-gtk --disable-toolkit-qt --disable-toolkit-xlib --disable-xprint --disable-libIDLtest --disable-logging --enable-crypto --disable-ldap --disable-postscript --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,w ebservices,inspector,gnomevfs --disable-mailnews --disable-composer

Here's the Performance that he adds it in firefox.js of the build,
don't change the info in this file directly, if you like to apply your settings you can modify or add it to your user.js file

Quote:

// Performance
// This will allow Firefox to maintain it GUI memory so that the browser window
// will snap right back after being minimized. This is fairly new and will be available
// in the very near future, might be in the 0.9.x builds, but it works in current Trunk/Brand builds
pref("config.trim_on_minimize", false);

// Specify the amount of memory cache:
// -1 = determine dynamically (default), 0 = none, n = memory capacity in kilobytes
// If you have the memory to spare, enabling this will run things a little smoother
pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536); //<-- thus equal about 64 megs, drop down to less if you can't spare the RAM

// Remove painting delay when loading pages
pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100); // Default is 250

pref("content.notify.ontimer", true); // Turn on timer-based reflow management

pref("content.notify.interval", 100000); // Sets the allowed time between reflows in microseconds (100?)

// Set the number of reflows to do before waiting for the rest of the page to arrive
pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5); (200?)

// Other Tweaks
pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 3000000); // New 8/25
pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191); // New 8/25

// Enable Improve pipelining:
pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true); // Default is false
pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8); // Default is 4

// Increase Multi-Threaded Downloading performance (We don't want to kill the servers)
pref("network.http.max-connections", 32); // Default is 24 <-- Use this for modems
pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 8); // Default is 8 <-- Use this for modems
pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 4); // Default is 4 <-- Use this for modems
pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 2); // Default is 2 <-- Use this for modems

// Other Tweaks
pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 86400); // Updated from 360 to 86400 - 9/22
pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 256); // Updated from 100 to 256 - 9/22
pref("network.ftp.idleConnectionTimeout", 60); // New 8/25
pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 30); // New 9/22

pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0); // New 8/25

pref("dom.disable_window_status_change", true); // New 9/22

// Shows an error page instead of an error popup dialog, have been using this for a long time now
// found this useful if you load multiple pages at the same the dialog box actually holds up the browser
// using this will allow the other pages/elements to load for the rest of the pages
pref("browser.xul.error_pages.enabled", true) // New 9/23

JLP, try the advB build if you have not tried it, i think you will like it.

Jul 2, 2004, 08:07 AM	#1
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 70	Unofficial Optimized Firefox Builds for Windows. this is for your info, use these softwares at your own risk. Unofficial builds of mozilla software Firefox builds. Many of them are optimized to run on a specific CPU architecture. Optimized Firefox Builds (moox) - http://moox.ws/tech/mozilla/ The freebird Browser Project - http://www.lmhess.com/freebird/ Unofficial nightly builds of mozilla software Firefox builds - http://pryan.org/mozilla/firefox/ (http://pryan.org/firebird/) this's the about window of the latest TRUNK build (2004/07/01 - Mozilla 1.8a2) optimized by moox. many of the extensions of 0.8 are working on this build but some of them are require manually installation. -------------------------------- MozillaZine.. - Third Party/Unofficial Builds. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=42&sid= - Choosing a Build. http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...p?t=56929&sid= The Burning Edge: FAQ http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/faq.html -------------------------------- Build your own... Build Mozilla on Microsoft Windows XP. http://gemal.dk/mozilla/build.html Last edited by Net; Jul 4, 2004 at 12:55 PM.

Jul 2, 2004, 06:37 PM	#2
JLP DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Slovenia Posts: 249 Rep Power: 0	Awsome Yeah I'm using the same optimized build from MOOX and it is working great. In Gentoo Linux I also have it compiled especially for AMD64 in 64-bits. Now I'm only waiting for some 64-bit build for Windows.

Jul 10, 2004, 01:51 AM	#4
riles9262 Driverheaven brewmaster Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,842 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	moox was fast for me, but is there a way to get extensions to work with it? They would not install (tabbrowser, ieview, mouse gestures) for me at all, or in the case of tbext, did not work.. __________________ A beer a day keeps the doctor away.

Jul 10, 2004, 03:53 AM	Thread Starter #5
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 70	go to the Firefox's location bar and type in about:config and hit enter key. then locate the following Pref names and then change all of its value to 0.9 app.version extensions.lastAppVersion general.useragent.vendorSub then D/L the extensions for FF 0.9 that you like to use and install it by hand... most of the extensions that wrote for version 0.9 should work. go to the home page of the author's so you can get the latest version, then try to D/L it by using Save Link As or Save Link Target As in Mozilla, save it (.xpi file) locally. to install the extensions.. go to FF's menu -> Tools -> Extensions. then drag/drop the .xpi file into the Extensions window. close/exit the FF. then restart the FF and open the Extensions window and R-click on on each extension, select Options to config it. (some extensions creates a new menu for an easy configs) note- always save your profile (just zip/rar the whole profile folder) so you can restore it if it's not working. there're lots more tips/tricks for Firefox/Mozilla, for you to customize it - both the LookAndFeel and speed/performances. check it out or post your questions. Last edited by Net; Jul 10, 2004 at 04:04 AM.

Jul 10, 2004, 04:38 AM	#6
riles9262 Driverheaven brewmaster Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: British Columbia, Canada Posts: 4,842 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	Thanks buddy, will try it when I get home. I have the normal version configed nicely, but I knew that there would be some funny tricks to getting it working with the alternate builds __________________ A beer a day keeps the doctor away.

Jul 4, 2004, 12:13 PM	Thread Starter #3
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 70	Checking these browsers speed at - http://www.numion.com/stopwatch showing a very good speed improved of optimized builds of the firefox over the official build. Firefox optimized builds - built by moox and the Freebird project. and the official build... ------------------------------------------ other browsers - the Opera and the IE. (opera is still the fastest page loading under my net connection - dialup)