Mozilla software alternate builds

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<http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/> seems to be alternate build
headquarters.

I've just been playing with the MOOX M3 build of Firefox 1.0, on a
Pentium 4 running at 2.13 GHz. Startup times are the same for
mozilla.org's build and the MOOX one, but MOOX seems to render pages
a little bit faster, up to something like 25%. I don't have much
variety in locally stored web pages here, though, and I'm not going
to try anything like real benchmarking.

FWIW, MOOX M3 seems to work flawlessly with my default profile, in
which I have thirty-nine extensions enabled.

I think I'll stick with mozilla.org's builds, but I thought I might as
well start a thread to see if anybody's got experience with other
builds. (They've been mentioned before here, but I don't think they
got a thread of their own.)

MOOX builds of Firefox and Thunderbird are at <http://www.moox.ws/>.
 
»Q« said:
<http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/> seems to be alternate build
headquarters.

I've just been playing with the MOOX M3 build of Firefox 1.0, on a
Pentium 4 running at 2.13 GHz. Startup times are the same for
mozilla.org's build and the MOOX one, but MOOX seems to render pages
a little bit faster, up to something like 25%. I don't have much
variety in locally stored web pages here, though, and I'm not going
to try anything like real benchmarking.

FWIW, MOOX M3 seems to work flawlessly with my default profile, in
which I have thirty-nine extensions enabled.

I think I'll stick with mozilla.org's builds, but I thought I might as
well start a thread to see if anybody's got experience with other
builds. (They've been mentioned before here, but I don't think they
got a thread of their own.)

MOOX builds of Firefox and Thunderbird are at <http://www.moox.ws/>.
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I've been using MOOX M2 versions of Fx and TB. They are quite fast and
work well, better than the official releases IMO.
 
Paul Urquhart said:
I've been using MOOX M2 versions of Fx and TB. They are quite fast and
work well, better than the official releases IMO.
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I havent found much of a difference myself. I use the Amano's build
http://www.pryan.org/mozilla/firefox/amano/ basically because it enhances
the ability of firefox to handle referrers.

Referrers btw is the URL of the Web page from which a visitor came, as
indicated by a server's referrer log file. If a visitor comes directly from
a search engine listing, the query used to find the page will usually be
encoded in the referrer URL, making it possible to see which keywords are
bringing in visitors.


NOTES FOR THE REFERRER FEATURE (TAKEN FROM THE MODIFIED ALL.JS SOURCECODE):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
pref("network.http.sendRefererHeader", 2);

// Controls how and when the referrer header will be sent:
// 0 - Never send the referrer.
// 1 - Send the actual referrer only for user initiated actions.
// 2 - Send for actual referrer for both user initiated actions and inline
// content.
// 3 - Not currently used.
// 4 - Send the actual referrer, only to the same home. Send nothing to
3rd
// parties.
// 5 - Send the actual referrer to the same host. Send the modified
// referrer (base URL only) to 3rd parties.
// 6 - Send the actual referrer to all hosts, but strip off the path for
3rd
// party requests.
// 7 - Always send the modified referrer.

pref("network.http.referrerSchemeOverride", false);

// If true, the modified referrer will be sent for schemes which
// normally wouldn't send a referrer, such as file: and resource:

Normal firefox only allows 0,1,2.

Not sending referrers at all is good for privacy but will break some sites
that check for referrers.

The Amano's build gives you more choices.
 
I've been using MOOX M2 versions of Fx and TB. They are quite
fast and work well, better than the official releases IMO.
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After I posted that, after about two hours of surfing with M3, my
system ran out of memory, and WinXP (home, SP2) struggled with
allocating more virtual memory. For the first time, I ended up
rebooting XP because of such a problem; I couldn't get the Task
Manager to come up because of lack of memory.

Memory management is a frequently mentioned problem with Firefox,
but I'd never run across it. Since I rebooted without much effort
to diagnose, I can't say for sure that MOOX M3 caused the problem,
but all other apps and services running were just ones I normally
have going while surfing.
 
»Q« said:
After I posted that, after about two hours of surfing with M3, my
system ran out of memory, and WinXP (home, SP2) struggled with
allocating more virtual memory. For the first time, I ended up
rebooting XP because of such a problem; I couldn't get the Task
Manager to come up because of lack of memory.

Memory management is a frequently mentioned problem with Firefox,
but I'd never run across it. Since I rebooted without much effort
to diagnose, I can't say for sure that MOOX M3 caused the problem,
but all other apps and services running were just ones I normally
have going while surfing.
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Were you trying one of the recent branch or trunk builds? They are full
of bugs (mozilla's, not moox's!)

Also, are you sure your processor supports the M3 build?

The release builds are much more stable and I've never encountered any
problems with them. Try this:

http://www.moox.ws/tech/mozilla/releasebuilds.htm
 
Were you trying one of the recent branch or trunk builds? They are
full of bugs (mozilla's, not moox's!)
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No, I was using the MOOX build of the 1.0 Firefox release.
Also, are you sure your processor supports the M3 build?
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Yes, it's a Pentium 4.
 
After I posted that, after about two hours of surfing with M3, my
system ran out of memory, and WinXP (home, SP2) struggled with
allocating more virtual memory. For the first time, I ended up
rebooting XP because of such a problem; I couldn't get the Task
Manager to come up because of lack of memory.

Memory management is a frequently mentioned problem with Firefox,
but I'd never run across it. Since I rebooted without much effort
to diagnose, I can't say for sure that MOOX M3 caused the problem,
but all other apps and services running were just ones I normally
have going while surfing.
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I just realized that before those couple of hours of surfing, I had
been switching between the MOOX build and the official build of 1.0,
to compare the two. The earlier interplay between the two
firefox.exe's being loaded and unloaded may have been what
eventually lead to my problem. IOW, I don't think anyone should be
discouraged from trying out MOOX by what I wrote. It certainly did
me no harm, and it was indeed faster.
 
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