Comments on: Browser Battle Round Three, Fight!

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:33:40 +0000

Very odd. 3.5.4 release is coming shortly. When I do that build, I'll dig around a bit on your issue.

By: benjer712

benjer712 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:19:30 +0000

I've generally been loving your intel optimized firefox 3.5 but i'm really confused about one thing. the site I use for my school displays text normally in the standard firefox build, but in the optimized build some of the text is so small that its unreadable? I dont' get it.

By: @clatko

@clatko — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:31:45 +0000

Thank you. I haven't yet tried these builds on my Snow Leopard machine so I'm glad they're working for you. I'm usually pretty on top of new releases and get builds up pretty quickly, though I wasn't aware 3.5.3 was imminent.

I know that 3.7 pre Alpha 1 is now available and will build that at the same time as the 3.5.3 update. Also, when I get the time, I'll redo these builds using Clang and redo the benchmarks.

By: BrDan

BrDan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:30:18 +0000

I downloaded your Shiretoko 3.5.2 build on my Intel iMac; running Snow Leopard and I cinged
my eyes. Great work!!! please keep it updated. 3.5.3 comes out in a few days and I hope you
keep your builds up to date.
THANK YOU!!!

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:26:43 +0000

Update: It appears that Shiretoko will not compile to 64-bit OS X. After trying numerous options that failed, I stumbled upon a statement that this will not be possible until Namoroka. I have a pre-alpha (32-bit) on the downloads page, but at this point I’m not going to spend the time trying to build a 64-version. I’ll wait until there is some hope that it will work.

I'll post one this weekend, though I don't think a 64-bit build is going to make much of a difference. I compiled 64-bit WebKit and benchmarked against a 32-bit WebKit and there was only a minor, minor improvement. I'll give it a shot.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:09:00 +0000

Is there any chance of us getting 64-bit optimized builds?

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:27:58 +0000

Thank you. I've been working on WebKit optimization lately but do not have anything significant yet.

By: John

John — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:06:59 +0000

I’ve been using these builds for quite a while. No matter what I try, these builds are faster than Safari 4 or the regular Shiretoko builds ( noscript and adblock plus extensions) Keep up the great work.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090625 Shiretoko/3.5pre Beetle ID:20090625093310

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:15:34 +0000

I over-optimized a bit and am currently compiling with a less aggressive mozconfig. I will have the new version up shortly. This is the 3.5b99, revision 3f775c3bb24a.

By: Chris Latko

Chris Latko — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:13:31 +0000

I changed it to be Leopard-only, but have reverted it to being Tiger-compatible. Once Snow Leopard comes out, I'll probably drop the Tiger support.