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firefox ~ optimized for intel processors using OS X


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I compiled firefox 1.5 (for extension compatibility) to takel advantage of i686 processors with SSE2 running OS X.

 

For users of 10.4.3 and prior, you must either remove (or replace with the 10.4.4 intel) /Library/"Internet Plug-Ins"/Flash Player.plugin" or use the flashblock extension until you get the new plugin.

 

EDIT:

10.4u = http://www.mytempdir.com/382473

8f1111= http://www.mytempdir.com/380674

plugins disabled, 10.4u = http://www.mytempdir.com/382408

 

btw anyone with any configuration requests (LDAP, SVG, calendar integration, etc) let me know.

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Thanks! Is this from the current Mozilla nightly build?

 

no, nightly's are usually from the trunk which is currently 1.6a. I used the official 1.5 source code pulled via CVS because that is what the majority of extensions developed or in developement are designed to be compatible with.

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Thanks for clearing things up. There are so many ports on mozilla there days we don't know exactly what sources they are from. We should have created a thread for which source whether Camino, Firefox, Thunderbird. Then dumped all ports under the source.

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Thanks for clearing things up. There are so many ports on mozilla there days we don't know exactly what sources they are from. We should have created a thread for which source whether Camino, Firefox, Thunderbird. Then dumped all ports under the source.

 

works great on my machine!

 

thx

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I will try this out tonight.

 

Has anyone been using the 10.4.4 Flash plugin? Does it work? I have *never* been able to get Flash to work natively on my machine... this would be terrific.

 

AFIK it uses the same flash plugin we've had for quite a while now. It works great in Safari, that's all Apple cares about.

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What's the difference to the offical build from http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Intel ?

Most notably, I enabled prebinding and used processor optimizations. It took me a whilke to find the ones that worked best on my machine. Here is my .mozconfig if anyone is interested:

. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/users/****/Desktop/1.5r
mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j4

ac_add_options --enable-compile-environment
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=mac
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
ac_add_options --enable-strip
ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs
ac_add_options --enable-static
ac_add_options --disable-shared
ac_add_options --enable-prebinding
ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O3 -march=i686 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer"

Note I did not use the 10.4u sdk this time so it probably requires 8f1111 or at least 10.4.3...

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doc, run a search on "flashblock".

 

 

All was well untill i browsed my favorate site and it crashed: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2289151

 

Flashblock enabled

java disabled

 

Can anyone confirm?

 

edit: I found the problem. Some type of java scripting was crashing ff. disable java script in ff will not crash it., damn time to find that no scripting extention.

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glufx,

 

how do you use adblock, I have tried doing what you said, but flash enabled sites are still causing firefox to crash? I would like to not remove the flash player plugin if possible (when I do, firefox is working.)

you could just take the "Flash Player.plugin" out of the /Library/"Internet Plug-Ins" folder when using firefox and simply put it back when you want to use safari with flash.

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glufx,

 

how do you use adblock, I have tried doing what you said, but flash enabled sites are still causing firefox to crash? I would like to not remove the flash player plugin if possible (when I do, firefox is working.)

 

 

I just added

as a filter. Just get flashblock, it's easier. I'm only using adblock because I don't like having a ton of plugins loaded. If I can do both(flash and ads) with one I will.
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Could you have it look somewhere else for the plugins? That way we could copy over what we want and not have to worry about killing flash in safari. Just an idea, IDK how easy it would be to do.

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jc, I only find one thing annoying with your build. When you click on the [X], firefox completely closes. I need it to just stay hidden running on the dock like it's suppose to. Can you make that happen?

 

Damn, my bad. I just remembered why it was doing that. it's due to one of the extensions. Sorry about that.

 

thanks

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Good news! myzar posted a link to a new build of firefox. Another good news is browsing sites containing heavy java script doesn't crash it anymore, for example espn.com. I might add that flash work as well :D

 

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Intel

 

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...001&hl=firefox#

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