Best Feb. Build

Aqua. · Post by **Aqua.** » February 29th, 2004, 12:25 pm

Now that the month of February is up, what was the best build of the month?
* Includes both official and unofficial builds
* Does NOT include the 0.8 build

Just so there isn't an argument over what constitutes 'best', just nominate what you personally think is best and write down why you think it is the best build. Everyone can have their own definitions of what is best for them.

bcool · Post by **bcool** » February 29th, 2004, 12:46 pm

This is terribly unscientific since I've not tried many of the February builds. But I cannot resist nominating stipe's February 19, 2004 /O2 /GL6(/GL7) /arch:SSE build for its stability, functionality and of course remarkable speed.

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219 Firefox/0.8.0+(stipe)

Aqua. · Post by **Aqua.** » February 29th, 2004, 1:07 pm

bcool, I'm getting an error message whenever I open a group of tabs using the Feb. 21 build, do you get this error with the Feb. 19 build?

joey716 · Post by **joey716** » February 29th, 2004, 2:02 pm

I have been experimenting with many builds this month because I am now running an AthlonXP3000+ This is my first

I thank all the builders who are optimising for Athlons

Anyway I said that to say Stipe's last GL7 ??2-20 ?? seems to be fastest

kindofabuzz · Post by **kindofabuzz** » February 29th, 2004, 2:05 pm

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040228 Firefox/0.8.0+ (Lohvarn)

Thanh · Post by **Thanh** » February 29th, 2004, 2:19 pm

I usually update my FF everyday but I haven't in the last couple of days cos I found the perfect build (at least for me).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040225 Firefox/0.8.0+ (mmoy) O2-G7-SSE2

mmoy · Post by **mmoy** » February 29th, 2004, 7:54 pm

Thanh wrote:I usually update my FF everyday but I haven't in the last couple of days cos I found the perfect build (at least for me).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040225 Firefox/0.8.0+ (mmoy) O2-G7-SSE2

You might try the experimental build too. Pryan.org appears to be down right now or at least very slow.

cdx47 · Post by **cdx47** » February 29th, 2004, 11:47 pm

Best build for Centrino?

See my sig.

[Edit]
OK why is it sometimes I see sigs in messages (including mine) and sometimes I dont ?
Anyway here it is...

Mozilla Firefox-experimental 0.8.0+ (mmoy)
Windows XP SP1 // Toshiba Sat Pro M10 - Centrino Pentium M 1.4G, 512MB GeForce Go 440

Now ofcourse my sig will magically appear....

Lost User 12105 · Post by **Lost User 12105** » March 1st, 2004, 2:32 am

I would say any O2 optimised builds from the 19th or 20th, since that is when the string changes were introduced that caused a nice increase in speed (our javascript testing backed up the claims on this by the mozilla people - so this tends to validate the javascript testing). The builds since appear to be no better in speed but some regressions have cropped up. There are a lot of good builds still available from those two days by several builders. Lohvarn's O2 GL6 from 02-20 is still my default. mmoy's newer experimental build might be a step forward but I can't test it personally so I don't really know.

stipe first started making O2 builds with VC7.1, and then discovered the benefit of the GL switch, so others have been able to benefit from what stipe did first.

Off topic, but I'm glad some are starting to build with GCC MinGW again. Probably with enough experimental optimization, a "sweet" spot could be found in building FireFox. As far as I remember, no one had tried O3 before when building for Windows so at least people are willing to try new things now.

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » March 1st, 2004, 10:14 am

Aqua. wrote:Now that the month of February is up, what was the best build of the month?
* Includes both official and unofficial builds
* Does NOT include the 0.8 build

Just so there isn't an argument over what constitutes 'best', just nominate what you personally think is best and write down why you think it is the best build. Everyone can have their own definitions of what is best for them.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040219 Firefox/0.8.0+

(Stipe?) has worked real well for me so far, and from what I've read, I haven't seen anything stable enough to try since.

Post by **old Neil Parks** » March 1st, 2004, 11:43 am

Right now I'm using Feb 29: djeter's G6-SSE on my P3 at home, and MozJF's version on my SSE-deprived Athlon at work. Both seem quite well-behaved, and they feel faster (I have not attempted any measurement) than previous Firefoxes.

zab · Post by **zab** » March 1st, 2004, 3:50 pm

Tested quite a few this month. My current favourite is Stipe's O2GL7SSE 20040220 build, but other notable mentions should go to,

Moox - 20040229 AXP O2 SSE - the fastest I've used but the problems with java on MingW/GCC remains.

Krueger Freebird-0224-O1-G7-SSE - another smooth and stable build.

MORA · Post by **MORA** » March 1st, 2004, 5:03 pm

The leap-day-build by MozJF seems to be really good on my Athlon XP. Perhaps it is too soon to judge, though.

stylo~ · Post by **stylo~** » March 1st, 2004, 8:34 pm

I just installed Stipes 19th g6sse. Works well, except typeaheadfind doesn't work at all!

I use that constantly. Anyone know a comparable build in which it works?

stylo~ · Post by **stylo~** » March 1st, 2004, 10:44 pm

I see now in an old post that stipes wrote that " "find as you type" is disabled. " for this build.

WHY? :-(

How would I enable it? Prefs don't seem to do it. Must resort to a diff. build? Anyone know a good build with it working?

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