Firefox flies when optimized
For those who feel the need for speed, Neil Lee may have the
answer: a build of Firefox 1.0 optimized for the G5
processor.
Neil notes the optimized version is officially unofficial, and comes with no guarantee that it won’t harm your mother.
Reader response indicates said build works beautifully and, notably, quickly. Those of us still running our trusty G4
processors need not sit idly by while our G5-toting companions have all the fun; Kai Rune has posted a series of
Firefox builds optimized for the G4 processor.
Next I want a clairvoyant build of Firefox, that will load the appropriate page before I even realize I need to go
there. Is that too much to ask?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Martin Alderson said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
I've heard that Firefox is working on predictive link support. Basically, it would be able to predict what links you go on via your past clicks and pre-fetch them accordingly.
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Tom Shafer said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
This works really well. I a running the old g4 version and it runs so much faster than the non-optimized version. Thanks a lot for this.
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Al Abut said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
The G5 version is the 1.0 build, but I tried out the G4 versions earlier today and it was 0.9x - not good considering the recent security hole...
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barb dybwad said 4:41PM on 10-07-2005
Martin: Wow. It's really *not* too much to ask. I must be living in the right era. This is incredible! Thanks for the tip!
Tom: You're most welcome! :)
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David Smiley said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
It appears to be working okay however I get the following output to my console.log:
/Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin: can't map file: /Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/Default Plugin.plugin ((os/kern) invalid argument)
/Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin: can't map file: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Java Applet.plugin ((os/kern) invalid argument)
*** loading the extensions datasource
/Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin: can't map file: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Java Applet.plugin ((os/kern) invalid argument)
*** loading the extensions datasource
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