Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 01:50:50 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: /usr/ports/www/linux-mozillafirebird Message-ID: <200406080150.50808.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <20040608080224.GD54404@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <20040608080224.GD54404@squirm.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 01:02 am, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been using /usr/ports/www/firefox for sometime now. > Recently I installed /usr/ports/www/linux-mozillafirebird to > experiment with some of the plugins. Something that I noticed was > that linux-mozillafirebird is blazingly fast compared to firefox. > > I'm talking about the speed at which it loads pages is > _significantly_ faster than that of firefox. > > Can anyone suggest reasons for this ? Not without seeing the build. One of the mozilla options is "WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS", which sets -O2. That could be one of your reasons. I don't know if that option works on the port you are interested in. I also don't have any other ideas. > > I'm tempted to use /usr/ports/www/linux-mozillafirebird permanently ! > I use the FreeBSD native version of Mozilla-1.6 and not any of the Linux versions. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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