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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David Smiley

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

February 15 2005 at 6:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

barb dybwad

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! :)

November 12 2004 at 9:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Al Abut

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...

November 12 2004 at 4:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tom Shafer

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.

November 11 2004 at 8:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Martin Alderson

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.

November 11 2004 at 8:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply