Special versions of Firefox

bcool · Post by **bcool** » December 24th, 2005, 10:19 am

tete009 wrote:bcool, thank you for your interest.

bcool wrote:I'm curious from where do you draw your core browser code?

At present, "official Mozilla" 1.5 final release.

I asked this only because it was suggested in another forum that perhaps Pacifica is receiving occasional patches for fixes which could prove useful especially since there appears to be no more fixes going into "official Mozilla" 1.5 release. Have you ever considered trying this Pacifica? I'm sure you know best. Just asking...

JoeyPro · Post by **JoeyPro** » December 24th, 2005, 11:38 am

I have a 900mhz Athlon Thunderbird.

It has MMX and Enhanced 3DNow. Which dll should I use? I was thinkin mmx2 but that says for p3 which I thought had sse instructions which mine doesnt have.

tete009 · Post by **tete009** » December 24th, 2005, 6:51 pm

bcool wrote:Have you ever considered trying this Pacifica?

No, I haven't. To my shame, I have no idea what <q>Pacifica</q> is... I may become interested in <q>Pacifica</q> from now on. Thanks a lot.

JoeyPro wrote:I have a 900mhz Athlon Thunderbird.

It has MMX and Enhanced 3DNow. Which dll should I use? I was thinkin mmx2 but that says for p3 which I thought had sse instructions which mine doesnt have.

I recommend <q>Enhanced 3DNow!</q> DLL because it contains MMX+ instructions. Though there is the file whose name contains the <q>mmx2</q> character string, it doesn't mean requiring SSE support. I used the <q>mmx2</q> character string as merely the file name.

JoeyPro · Post by **JoeyPro** » December 24th, 2005, 10:20 pm

Thanks, just started using it, very impressed, nice work!

Everything is blazing fast.

Just making sure I did it right...

Downloaded:
tmsvc-20051212-3dnow-g6.zip
tmemutil-20051212-3dnow2.zip

Extracted both to the firefox folder and then ran tbind.

tete009 · Post by **tete009** » December 24th, 2005, 11:15 pm

JoeyPro wrote:Downloaded:
tmsvc-20051212-3dnow-g6.zip

I think G7 is more suitable for Athlon.
According to the following document, <q>/G7 optimizes code for the Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon.</q>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us ... _.2f.g.asp

mmoy · Post by **mmoy** » December 24th, 2005, 11:21 pm

The AMD Athlon is architecturally closer to the Pentium 3 than the Pentium 4 in terms of pipeline length, IPC, etc.

tete009 · Post by **tete009** » December 25th, 2005, 12:38 am

mmoy wrote:The AMD Athlon is architecturally closer to the Pentium 3 than the Pentium 4 in terms of pipeline length, IPC, etc.

I think so, too.
I am using a Athlon XP 2500+ machine, but I cannot feel difference between /G6 and /G7 options on my machine...

JoeyPro · Post by **JoeyPro** » December 25th, 2005, 6:28 am

Oh, I have always used g6, I always assumed my processor was like a p2 because it doesnt have sse. I would think an old Thunderbird like mine would be very different than the new Athlon XP.

ice-pack · Post by **ice-pack** » December 25th, 2005, 7:39 am

tete009 wrote:
mmoy wrote:The AMD Athlon is architecturally closer to the Pentium 3 than the Pentium 4 in terms of pipeline length, IPC, etc.

I think so, too.
I am using a Athlon XP 2500+ machine, but I cannot feel difference between /G6 and /G7 options on my machine...

tete,

Here's my spec:
AMD Duron, 700 MHz (3.5 x 200)
Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 (2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM)<---mobo
AMD-750 Irongate<---mobo chipset

Am I right downloading these files ?
- G6 + MMX (Pentium 2, Pentium 3, etc)
- tmemutil-20051212-3dnow.zip (Zip archive, 8KB)
- tmsvc-20051212-3dnow-g6.zip (Zip archive, 340KB)

bcool · Post by **bcool** » December 26th, 2005, 5:59 am

tete009 wrote:
bcool wrote:Have you ever considered trying this Pacifica?

No, I haven't. To my shame, I have no idea what <q>Pacifica</q> is... I may become interested in <q>Pacifica</q> from now on. Thanks a lot.

May I introduce you to Pacifica Firefox 1.5 builds which are always included in notices like these: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=359273
and can be downloaded for your amusement from here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... ozilla1.8/
Perhaps if you become interested, you may even want to produce one of your own builds from this code - if you think it is a good idea to do so. Maybe?

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Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051218 Firefox/1.5 (tete009)

tete009 · Post by **tete009** » December 27th, 2005, 5:53 am

ice-pack wrote:tete,

Here's my spec:
AMD Duron, 700 MHz (3.5 x 200)
Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 (2 ISA, 5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DIMM)<---mobo
AMD-750 Irongate<---mobo chipset

Am I right downloading these files ?
- G6 + MMX (Pentium 2, Pentium 3, etc)
- tmemutil-20051212-3dnow.zip (Zip archive, 8KB)
- tmsvc-20051212-3dnow-g6.zip (Zip archive, 340KB)

I hear the Duron processors support <q>Enhanced 3DNow!</q> instructions. I recommend the following file:
tmemutil-20051212-3dnow2.zip (Zip archive, 8KB)

I personally think it is worth trying G7 on Duron and Athlon.
<q>Visual C++ Optimization Overview</q>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us ... zation.asp

tete009 · Post by **tete009** » December 27th, 2005, 7:05 am

bcool wrote:May I introduce you to Pacifica Firefox 1.5 builds which are always included in notices like these: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=359273
and can be downloaded for your amusement from here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... ozilla1.8/

Thanks for your information about Pacifica.
My English skills aren't highly developed, so I may not be able to translate documents accurately. It takes time to read these documents for me, but I'd like to read them with the aid of translation software.

shawn^ · Post by **shawn^** » December 27th, 2005, 8:54 am

Hi. I just want to make sure I get the right files.

intel P4 2.4ghz here

tmsvc-20051212-mmx-g7.zip (Zip archive, 340KB)
&
tmemutil-20051212-mmx2.zip (Zip archive, 8KB)

would be the most suitable?

also after running tbind, would any damage be done if I choose to remove this build and run another? There's no need to unload anything right?

Thanks

tete009 · Post by **tete009** » December 27th, 2005, 9:20 am

shawn^ wrote:intel P4 2.4ghz here

tmsvc-20051212-mmx-g7.zip (Zip archive, 340KB)
&
tmemutil-20051212-mmx2.zip (Zip archive, 8KB)

would be the most suitable?

Yes, that's the best combination for Pentium 4.

shawn^ wrote:also after running tbind, would any damage be done if I choose to remove this build and run another? There's no need to unload anything right?

That's nothing to worry about.

bcool · Post by **bcool** » December 27th, 2005, 6:22 pm

tete009 wrote:Thanks for your information about Pacifica.
My English skills aren't highly developed, so I may not be able to translate documents accurately. It takes time to read these documents for me, but I'd like to read them with the aid of translation software.

Good luck whatever you do.