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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:05:28
Message-Id: 4CAB243C.60309@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations? by Walter Dnes
1 On 10/04/2010 10:49 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:37:10PM -0700, walt wrote
3 >> On 09/30/2010 05:30 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
4 >>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Johannes Kimmel<johannes.kimmel@×××.de> wrote:
5 >>>> On 09/30/2010 12:58 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
6 >>>>>
7 >>>>> Heya,
8 >>>>> I noticed that my firefox-bin is a lot smaller in memory footprint
9 >>>>> compared to ordinary gentoo-compiled firefox.
10 >>>>>
11 >>>>> Does anyone know what compiler flags upstream applies to their
12 >>>>> firefox?
13 >>
14 >> Try entering about:buildconfig in the URL bar.
15 >
16 > I tried it, and for good measure, did some spelunking in the
17 > .configure file in the firefox tarball. I have some questions, before
18 > possibly tweaking the Firefox ebuild and/or .configure on my machine...
19 >
20 > --enable-application=xulrunner
21 > will Firefox run without this?
22
23 It definitely WON'T run without this. Unless you're only looking at the
24 intertubes as seen 15 years ago...