Special versions of Firefox

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Special versions of Firefox

Post by Coriolan »

Hello,

Please, what do you think about these versions ?
http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html
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Wow, dude, thanks for a link! Finally a person who builds current trunk... I'm going to test it!
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Post by Old UliBär »

Very interesting. These builds are even configurable for AMD CPUs. Just made a 3Dnow!+ version for my trusty Athlon TBird ... i like it 8-)
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Post by bloodykiss »

Yeah, working fine on AMD, fast and smooth :)

yagood wrote:Wow, dude, thanks for a link! Finally a person who builds current trunk... I'm going to test it!


Bluefyre is also building current trunk almost everyday.
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Post by adamlau »

"Speedup of internal memory transmission for Mozilla"...
Interesting...Firefox 1.5 G7 build working well thus far...
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Re: Special versions of Firefox

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Coriolan wrote:Hello,

Please, what do you think about these versions ?
http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html


<img src="http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/4848/dll4gl.png">

Exactly where do you place the DLLs?



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Post by bollix47 »

I put them in the same folder as the program.
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Post by BeachKeys »

bollix47 wrote:Where you put the program.


OK, just in the main folder and not in any sub-folder?
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Post by Stevi »

BeachKeys wrote:OK, just in the main folder(...)?

correct!
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Post by bollix47 »

That's where I put them ... I think they were already there and I just replaced them.
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Post by bangbang023 »

yagood wrote:Wow, dude, thanks for a link! Finally a person who builds current trunk... I'm going to test it!

say what? Bluefyre and I put out trunk builds daily. Hell, mine use an extra optimization or two.
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Re: Special versions of Firefox

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Coriolan wrote:Hello,

Please, what do you think about these versions ?
http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html

Well, I just installed it and it loads quicker (snaps open right away) than any build I"ve used up to this point. Is that because of the of Module Builder?
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Post by Old UliBär »

Although many complain... i can only confirm, what he said is right. Just copy the DLLs (conforming to your cpu) into the right folder and confirm overwrite and confirm the local settings after starting tbind.exe and you're done... really... believe me... it's great!!!
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Post by mmoy »

I suspect that the setup is so that the DLLs are preloaded when Windows starts up.

It appears that this builder is using custom CRT DLLs optimized for specific platforms which is pretty slick. I did this on some of my older builds using inline code but it resulted in maintenance issues so I dropped it. But the approach of doing it in DLLs is very, very nice.

I don't have time to try the build out right now (and they probably wouldn't run on my Mac anyways) but some BenchJS comparisons with the usual builders might be interesting on the 1.0.7 builds given that not everyone does trunk builds.
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Post by yagood »

bangbang023 wrote:
yagood wrote:Wow, dude, thanks for a link! Finally a person who builds current trunk... I'm going to test it!

say what? Bluefyre and I put out trunk builds daily. Hell, mine use an extra optimization or two.


Sorry, I forgot to write - I'm interested in SSE/MMX G6 builds, but none of you unfortunetely builds it I think :(
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