BlueFyre: W32 2004-03-30 AthlonXP (O2/G7/GL/SSE, .NET 2003)

[BlueFyre]

These are all Trunk Builds.

I built Mozilla Firefox from CVS with MSVC++ .NET 2003 using some optimisations.

Optimised for Athlon XP and some newer Durons with SSE (-O2 -G7 -GL -arch:SSE):
http://pryan.org/firefox/BlueFyre/Firef ... GL-SSE.zip (~7.80MB - zip)
The above build will work on systems that support the SSE instruction set ONLY.

[Note] Extracting will make a folder named Firefox

checkout start: Tue Mar 30 06:36:10 PST 2004

I should note that I can't guarantee that these builds will work with Windows 95 (Microsoft has removed Windows 95 as a target platform on their .NET 2003 version of development tools), but they will work with Windows 98/NT4 or better, and probably on Windows 95 too.

You can find a copy of these builds (and my older builds) on pryan's mirror:
http://pryan.org/firefox/BlueFyre

My .mozconfig is as follows:

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -G7 -GL -arch:SSE"
ac_add_options --enable-static
ac_add_options --disable-shared

My builds have the following preference set:
pref("general.useragent.vendorComment", "BlueFyre");

I've included a copy of my .mozconfig in the build folder itself.
For more on what the optimisation switches do see this link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us ... _.2f.o.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us ... _.2f.g.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us ... ecture.asp

PS: I am using scragz's unofficial branding. (http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/firefox- ... anding.php)

[GrailKnight]

Well I know your 29March04 build is working fine.
Much faster then the 27March04 build.

Will try this 30March04 build later.
Thanks again.

[task]

testing...

[pljones]

Y'know, BlueFyre, the only change I'd make to your builds is to use 7z compression rather than Zip... Means I can download and run your latest that tiny bit quicker! Thanks for building.

[Smokey]

this build crashed at first load (yes i have a profile ), works fine from second try though.

[GrailKnight]

BlueFyre,

Why do you include a Samples Folder in your FF builds?
326 kb of css, sound, animated gif, html etc...
I beleive it is of no use to the user.
I deleted it and found no effect to Firefox.
Curious is all.

[GrailKnight]

Some statistics:

3-30-04 build

Compression: Size:

Zip 8058 kb

7Zip 5999 kb

7Zip w/out Sample: 5865 kb

Makes a diff. for dialup users.

[BlueFyre]

I will possibly add a .7z to my builds later on... also these 'sample folders' are included because I just package the bin directory on compilation basically... Sorry to you dialup users (I think I'll just continue to add those...But I'll try a .7z with the normal .zip; because many people do not have 7z for opening that type of file.)

[GrailKnight]

Thanks for the reply.

The sample folder just made me curious as to its purpose.
Great build today by the way.
No problems at all so far.

The 7Zip was mentioned by pljones I just did the file size as a test and thought I would post my results.

Have a good afternoon.

[Rigido]

Ok, someone told me that this is the optimized build for my Athlon 2000+.
I removed all of the profile directory (Firefox, Phoenix & Mozilla) and the Firefox directory as well...NO PROBLEM AT THE FIRST STARTUP
I just put back the plugins DLLs (plugins direcotry) and my bookmarks.html file.
So (I think) I have a CLEAN installation but I know that I can achieve better performance if I put some option in the user.js file.
I was trying the Laszlo settings...are they good?
There are settings that could be better or worst for a certain build?

Thanks,
Rigido.

[GrailKnight]

I use Laszlo's settings and my Firefox just loves it.
You do not mention your type of connection, but on DSL it rocks.

[Swiftdeathz]

for 1.5mb DSL I use these settings regardless of Firefox build:

user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("javascript.allow.mailnews", true);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);