Comments on: Firefox 3.1 Intel Optimized Build

By: Danny Ruiz

Danny Ruiz — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:24:39 +0000

Been using your 3.5b5pre for a few weeks, and it's been fantastically stable and flawless for me. Honestly, I haven't experienced a single crash, whereas with with the last Firefox 3.x stable build I'd have a crash a day or so. Pleasantly surprised, stable, and fast. Thank you!!!

Oh, I'm running OSX 10.4.11, MBP w/ 2GB RAM & 120GB HDD.

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:06:00 +0000

@ted thanks for the tip. Will update shortly…

By: Ted Mielczarek

Ted Mielczarek — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:26:42 +0000

Just FYI, your mozconfig contains a lot of cruft. For example:
ac_add_options --enable-reorder
This isn’t a valid option to configure.

ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --disable-shared
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-pthreads
ac_add_options --enable-svg
ac_add_options --enable-canvas
ac_add_options --enable-extensions=default,spellcheck
ac_add_options --without-system-png
ac_add_options --without-system-mng
ac_add_options --without-system-nspr
ac_add_options --without-system-zlib
ac_add_options --without-system-jpeg
These are all the default settings.

ac_add_options --enable-prebinding
I’m told this option hasn’t done anything useful since OS X 10.3 or so. (See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407399)

By: dennis

dennis — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:04:33 +0000

im using osx tiger 10.4.11 and it’s not working good, firefox also want to start up when i click the icon

A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:18:07 +0000

I know it’s not the fault of the optimizations but wow it’s this build is buggy.

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:09:31 +0000

@david - the 5pre is the beta 4 build.

@josh - Honestly, I’m not sure. I used the same build steps I’ve used in all previous releases available on this site. So I’m pretty sure it is not the optimization. You can also check the .mozconfig file on the downloads page.

By: josh

josh — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:06:51 +0000

Hi, just got the shiretoko-3.5b5pre build. Thanks.

Two issues I’ve noticed - sometimes you can’t click to change a tab. You click on a tab that’s not in front but nothing happens. Also, in the search field at the top right, I can enter text but the return key doesn’t do anything.

Is this a result of the optimized build? Or something wrong with Shiretoko?

Thanks!

By: david

david — Sat, 02 May 2009 02:29:05 +0000

how about beta4?

By: Addison

Addison — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:10:54 +0000

Hey, I love your optimized builds. They would wonderful on my computer and are super fast. I just wanted to let you know that the official 3.5 beta 4 was released recently. I tried to do a little research to figure out how to build it myself with your mozconfig file but it looked like it was going to take a lot more work than I thought or maybe I just read wrong lol

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:02:23 +0000

@WHITSON

TraceMonkey has almost always been a part of 3.1, it just is not enabled by default. If you want to enable it on a regular FF download, search for “jit” in the about:config and set both options to true. Restart.