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pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,717

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

So... what is PGO ?

Profile Guided Optimization"

YscO

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-06-25

Posts: 52

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

I'm waiting for the Swiftweasel release.

It's not that fast. If you want fast, get my package. It has PGO.

woha, that is fast... using it now... thank you

Last edited by YscO (2008-05-20 19:06:13)

Bapman

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From: Ottawa, Canada

Registered: 2007-09-02

Posts: 140

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Is there any test to confirm that performance gain ? I have tried with and without PGO and I don't see any difference...

sabooky

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Registered: 2006-11-02

Posts: 89

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Is there any test to confirm that performance gain ? I have tried with and without PGO and I don't see any difference...

you could try (javascript test):
http://webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

SiD

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-09-21

Posts: 729

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

I'm waiting for the Swiftweasel release.

It's not that fast. If you want fast, get my package. It has PGO.

Yes, it's realy fast!
I also noticed, that FF3 uses my gtk-theme.
But, scrolling on pages with fixed background (some myspace pages e.g.) is still very very very slow.
The Windows version of FF2 is scrolling through these pages with lightspeed compared to the Linux Version.

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,807

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

But, scrolling on pages with fixed background is still very very very slow.

So that's what it is. I get that too sometimes.
Maybe you can use a custom global CSS style (maybe using 'Stylish' add-on) like

body { background-image: none !important; }

I tried to find a page and turned it on and off and I think it worked.

Tido

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Registered: 2007-06-21

Posts: 65

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

So far it works wonderfully.

The only issue I have is the look of the tabs using KDE(mod). Anyone know a fix for this?

my0pic

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 206

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

I 'm using firefox-spookyet. Very fast and sweet and worth the time to build. No problems at all so far.

MillTek

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 442

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Hi,
I just installed spookyet RC1.  It is fast and the only issue I have found is this;

Previous to RC1 I was using spookyet 3.0b5. With that release I was able to have it supply userID and password for www.ntta.org.  (I had to search the forum for a fix to get it to stor the userID and password but it worked in the end) With RC1, it won't accept any form of keyed entry at all.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

edward.al

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Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 12

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

i'm remove firefox2 and using firefox3-systemcairo from aur, works great!
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15172

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Hi,
I just installed spookyet RC1.  It is fast and the only issue I have found is this;

Previous to RC1 I was using spookyet 3.0b5. With that release I was able to have it supply userID and password for www.ntta.org.  (I had to search the forum for a fix to get it to stor the userID and password but it worked in the end) With RC1, it won't accept any form of keyed entry at all.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

I have no issues with passwords.

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Would anyone care for Epiphany with Gecko 1.9 (currently it uses the 1.8 engine, like Firefox 2)?

fede

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Registered: 2007-06-29

Posts: 118

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

I think I had the first RC1 package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15184

Thanks a lot SpookyET for your great package!

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Interesting... It appears that FF3 doesn't start if libpulsedsp.so is preloaded.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2008-05-31 23:00:07)

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

I think I had the first RC1 package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15184

Thanks a lot SpookyET for your great package!

You're welcome.

Megamixman

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 73

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Would anyone care for Epiphany with Gecko 1.9 (currently it uses the 1.8 engine, like Firefox 2)?

Actually that would be nice.
I like FF, but Epiphany would allow use of the globalmenu bar. Kazehakase with Xul 1.9 sounds like a good proposition as well.
I saw that you left a comment on the xulrunner in the AUR. Wondering if you managed to get PGO and Gnome(XFCE?) intergration to work with it yet.

Last edited by Megamixman (2008-06-01 02:33:39)

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Would anyone care for Epiphany with Gecko 1.9 (currently it uses the 1.8 engine, like Firefox 2)?

Actually that would be nice.
I like FF, but Epiphany would allow use of the globalmenu bar. Kazehakase with Xul 1.9 sounds like a good proposition as well.
I saw that you left a comment on the xulrunner in the AUR. Wondering if you managed to get PGO and Gnome(XFCE?) intergration to work with it yet.

Building as we speak. I don't know yet. But if you have a fast computer, I would appreciate if you build it as well. I'd like epiphany with webkit, but webkitgtk dev is slow. It will be ready in 2-4 months. It's faster than gecko pgo without pgo. According to a mozilla dev, firefox will catch up by 3.1 or 4.0.

I know what you mean about the globalmenubar: http://www.studioindustryllc.com/user/s … enshot.png

You can find my pkgbuilds/binaries at: http://www.studioindustryllc.com/user/s … rch-linux/
You can find xulrunner source at: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WZH55RER

It's very hard to find the source of xulrunner. I'd appreciate if you can modify the PKGBUILD to use cvs like the one on AUR, but uses releases, not trunk. In this case RC1.

Last edited by SpookyET (2008-06-01 04:01:04)

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Okay...

Observation 1: Holycrap RC1 is fast. As fast as Midori, maybe faster for some things.

Observation 2: It's also a damn site lighter than Beta 5.

Observation 3: ... It has an EULA. Seriously. What the hell, Mozilla?

MAC!EK

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 265

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

The've added Help => Report Broken Web Site..., and Help => Report Web Forgery
Is it new or I haven't noticed it before?

Reporting broken web site is a nice feature, but if I want to report an URL, it must be opened, and Fx crashes when I try to open it

Megamixman

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 73

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

PKGBUILD:
http://rafb.net/p/btLJbB93.html

mozconfig:
http://rafb.net/p/38TUZi43.html

That should grab the _branch in xulrunner and compile it using the optimizations you set SpookEt.
As of right now, it is set for the FF3 RC2 Release
you can find the different release branch tags at:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CVS_Tags

That for Xulrunner btw

Edit: had wrong PKGBUILD link
PKGBUILD updated again

Last edited by Megamixman (2008-06-01 22:44:17)

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

PKGBUILD:
http://rafb.net/p/mtwds935.html

mozconfig:
http://rafb.net/p/38TUZi43.html

That should grab the _branch in xulrunner and compile it using the optimizations you set SpookEt.
As of right now, it is set for the FF3 RC2 Release
you can find the different release branch tags at:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/CVS_Tags

That for Xulrunner btw

Edit: had wrong PKGBUILD link

Thank you. The problem is that there is something wrong with my PKGBUILD. It gets built and installed, but EPIPHANY and YELP which have to be recompiled don't see it. They think xullrunner is missing.

Megamixman

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 73

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

The PKGBUILD was updated. We both had bad versions. Well not bad, but rather the rc1 messes with the packaging.
Also, what version of Epiphany are you recompiling?
I'm trying to get the SVN trunk to not ask for Webkit, but it seems hell-bent on having webkit installed.

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

The PKGBUILD was updated. We both had bad versions. Well not bad, but rather the rc1 messes with the packaging.
Also, what version of Epiphany are you recompiling?
I'm trying to get the SVN trunk to not ask for Webkit, but it seems hell-bent on having webkit installed.

Epiphany has moved to webkit. You cannot use trunk. I used the one in extra. You can use up to 2.22.2.
If you are on IRC, msg me.

SpookyET

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Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 410

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

The PKGBUILD was updated. We both had bad versions. Well not bad, but rather the rc1 messes with the packaging.
Also, what version of Epiphany are you recompiling?
I'm trying to get the SVN trunk to not ask for Webkit, but it seems hell-bent on having webkit installed.

There seems to be a 404 syntax error in your PKGBUILD.

Megamixman

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 73

Re: Weeeee ! Firefox3 rc1 is out !

Uhm, my orignal post has the new link. Rafb makes a new link for each new upload. So it's a dynamic link.

http://rafb.net/p/btLJbB93.html
That is the right link.
I tried both Epiphany 2.22.2 and Kazehakase 5.4, but neither are able to recognize the xulrunner 1.9 in building. I think it has to do with the pkgconfig files and the fact that 1.9 defaults to basing off libxul whereas before libxul as in dev and not considered the main part of xulrunner. I'm currently building it as a static file so libxul is not used.