Nova: Firefox 0.8 Release w/MNG,DOMi (Linux and Win32!)

mtigas · Post by **mtigas** » February 16th, 2004, 1:06 am

Comments for 02/16
4pm (-6 GMT)

Done with Win32. W00t!

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2am (-6 GMT)

Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, da na na na....

So far, only Linux is up. Have a 0.8 Release (MNG, DOMi) and a 20040216 Trunk (MNG, SVG, DOMi), but only Release is uploaded.

Built on a Fedora Core 2 test (custom compiled 2.6.3-rc2 kernel), using GCC 3.3.2, generic optimizations for i686. Pentium4 SSE2 build also up, using "march", which means it probably won't run on any other hardware.

Win32 O2 G6 version should come tomorrow, hopefully.

Unzips into directory "Firefox" or "bin", can't remember which--I don't think I had the packager script working (I screwed around at first), so it might not be the same as the packager. Should work, but possibly won't work at all--we'll see.

If someone can verify these work, and then mirror them... That'd be nice. I have a cap on my webspace and since these are larger than the Win32 distributions I used to make, it's a bit pricier on space.

fx-mng-0.8-p4sse2.tar.bz2 is currently uploading, give it maybe 10 minutes after the time of this post before it's guaranteed totally up.

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Downloads:

MNGZilla Build Directory: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=92539

fx-mng-0.8-w32-O2G6.exe - 7Z Self Extracting
0.8 Release w/MNG,DOMi; O2 G6 Win32
5,574,054 bytes
MD5 Checksum: c4877099164d3a5603726f2f5822f981

fx-mng-0.8-i686.tar.bz2 - Bzip2 Tarball
0.8 Release w/MNG,DOMi; i686 Linux
9,469,253 bytes
MD5 Checksum: 82180a457c535684897f777b5e83a75e

fx-mng-0.8-p4sse2.tar.bz2 - Bzip2 Tarball
0.8 Release w/MNG,DOMi; Pentium 4 SSE2 Linux
9,409,708 bytes
MD5 Checksum: 4935ea5040cbca14084eae0d6fc2c5ba

All downloads extract the files to directory "Firefox". (EDIT: Actually, I think the Linux ones are outdated from before I used a script and unzip to "bin"...)

DOM Inspector enabled.
MNG/JNG support is built-in. (MNGzilla & Bug 18574)

Note, the patch I'm using is Alexander Opitz's new patch, but I upgraded MNG to 1.0.6, because (according to Bugzilla) the patch he supplies is only MNG 1.0.5. Works smoothly for me.

mtigas · Post by **mtigas** » February 16th, 2004, 1:23 am

Also, I've gotten good at writing up build scripts for all of this and figuring out what makes a good mozconfig for Linux... My dependency model might have changed between me doing these builds earlier this weekend and now. If these builds don't work well, I might rebuild new ones with my new configurations.

storm119 · Post by **storm119** » February 16th, 2004, 4:12 am

Good to see you back, Mike

Your last build i've tried Win32 MNG 20031229.

Any plan to build Win32 O2/G7/SSE2...or you will stick to O2/G6 like the old day ?

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » February 16th, 2004, 6:53 am

If you build a windoze version , do one with SVG included please.
I'm using an official experimental build 0.8 + svg-gdi but beside that it is a lot faster than any of the 0.7 's I tried it's filled with bugs.
I don't know if it's worth while with all the current regressions though.

thanks in advance, Peter

amano · Post by **amano** » February 16th, 2004, 7:39 am

I think that the O2/G6 builds will make most of us happy. The use of the additional instruction sets doesn't help too much.

But I am glad that the experimental Tigas builds are back.

Old GlennRP · Post by **Old GlennRP** » February 16th, 2004, 8:08 am

I've mirrored the two Linux files at mngzilla.sf.net in the DOWNLOAD
area under binaries-Linux:FireFox 0.8 (Nova). Let's see the
Windoze binaries now. BTW I think Opi actually used libmng-1.0.6 despite the comment/filename at Bugzilla.

realgeorge · Post by **realgeorge** » February 16th, 2004, 9:35 am

amano wrote:I think that the O2/G6 builds will make most of us happy.

Yes it would, Yes it would, Yes it would, , da na na na....

mtigas · Post by **mtigas** » February 16th, 2004, 2:12 pm

storm119 wrote:Any plan to build Win32 O2/G7/SSE2...or you will stick to O2/G6 like the old day ?

I only have MSVC.NET so I can't do G7 or SSE2, hence... I stick with O2 G6.

Peter(6) wrote:If you build a windoze version , do one with SVG included please.
I'm using an official experimental build 0.8 + svg-gdi but beside that it is a lot faster than any of the 0.7 's I tried it's filled with bugs.
I don't know if it's worth while with all the current regressions though.

The SVG branch got checked into the trunk after 0.8 branched, so I won't be doing a 0.8 Release w/MNG. However, I'm already using a SVG-enabled nightly trunk in Linux, which is doing very nicely to me. I'll probably do those.

mtigas · Post by **mtigas** » February 16th, 2004, 3:04 pm

Win32 is up!

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040216 Firefox/0.8 (Nova-0.8-W32: MNG,DOMi)

Old GlennRP · Post by **Old GlennRP** » February 16th, 2004, 6:48 pm

Thanks; the W32 binary is also now mirrored at mngzilla.sf.net.

realgeorge · Post by **realgeorge** » February 16th, 2004, 7:28 pm

Thanks MadmanNova. Your new "fx-mng-0.8-w32-O2G6.exe" build is the fastest Firebird/Firefox that I have ever used on my win98, 300MNz, 128 mb RAM box. Very smooth and stable so far (1 hour). Edit: I have now used this build about 10 hours without a single hitch. I`m now tempted to add TBE, but I hate to disturb the great, smooth, fast operation. Do you think TBE would work ok without slowing it down very much or upsetting it`s operation? Is a TBE "light" version available anywhere now?

amano · Post by **amano** » February 16th, 2004, 11:50 pm

Tnx, Mike!!

Any chance that you try a Fx 0.8 installer build?

and somehow I miss the caret, copy image and fake referrer patches, included with your experimanetal builds before. Any chance to see them back again?

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » February 17th, 2004, 4:41 am

MadmanNova wrote:The SVG branch got checked into the trunk after 0.8 branched, so I won't be doing a 0.8 Release w/MNG. However, I'm already using a SVG-enabled nightly trunk in Linux, which is doing very nicely to me. I'll probably do those.

Does that mean that SVG-GDI is included by default in all latest nightlies ?
-- I just got the latest, but svg did not work --
-- should i look in another directory than http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... est-trunk/ ?
(in all honestly I don't understand the whole branch/trunk thing)

mtigas · Post by **mtigas** » February 17th, 2004, 8:41 am

Peter(6) wrote:Does that mean that SVG-GDI is included by default in all latest nightlies ?

No, but the stuff from the SVG branch is in the trunk now. You still need to enable it in the .mozconfig when building it, but at least now I can build SVG builds off of the same tree as the normal builds, and this time not have any conflicts.

The SVG_BRANCH that existed had some updates to the code that wasn't in trunk, because it was unstable when they were working on it. This is why there were conflicts every once in a while, and this is why I didn't build SVG frequently. This is also why it was kept in a branch--instability and conflicts in it wouldn't be good to keep it in trunk. Now that it's kinda been cleaned up, it's been checked into the trunk.

I have a trunk Linux build with MNG, SVG, and DOMi, and I'll probably have a Win32 up soon--today or tommorow.(See here.)

amano · Post by **amano** » February 22nd, 2004, 4:05 pm

Didn't you succeed to build the Win32 ones?

(any chance to have the "experimental modifications in there again?)

Nova: Firefox 0.8 Release w/MNG,DOMi (Linux and Win32!)

Nova: Firefox 0.8 Release w/MNG,DOMi (Linux and Win32!)

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