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I like to encourage you to play with the mozilla source and build your own firefox, thunderbird or seamonkey. With the new packages in beta I provide a new patch, which combines the changes from the previous three patches and fix some more problems. I also updated the release notes. It should be easy for you to build your own version optimized for your platform. You can also add the -mp flag for multi processor support.

To get the source:


I attached the current patch and release notes.

I had some conflicts with the headers of neko_openldap. Just rename ore remove them. You need the shared libraries of a current firefox in your LD_LIBRARYN32_PATH otherwise signlib will core dump.

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Thank you for this... will give this a try..!

This is great, and thank you much .... since you started this, I have a proposition for you

Actually, Fireflop 2.0.0.22 does most everything we need. The problems with it are that it crashes sometimes and it's slow and has huge memory leaks. After watching all the projects trying to get FF 3 and higher running on Irix, I have to wonder why we bother with that ? Why not do a New Phoenix ? Take the Friedflop that works and start fixing it and stripping useless code out ? For instance, when I re-installed neko's 2.0.0.20, the damned thing sat there for a good twenty minutes "checking add-ons" and a bunch of other garbage. That is useless code that has to get loaded every single time you run furflop. Useful one time, absolutely useless and a weak link in the code for the other 200,000 times you run the program. In a word, STUPID. (And retarded, shortsighted, idiotic, brain-dead, foolish, the actions of a legion of chimpanzees with Down's Syndrome, etc etc etc)

What do you think of setting this up as a fix-fireflop project ? If the people who are now struggling with FF 3+ put their efforts into improving what we know works, maybe we'd be better off ?

edit: In the meanwhile, I got a little problem, Houston ....

Actually I plan to look at newer firefox versions later. I think it is a good idea to start with the working version and understand the concept behind the code. I have great respect for the mozilla code which has grown for nearly 20 years now. In my opinion there is absolutely nothing stupid with it.

As I wrote before, I found an optimizing problem in the javascript code. All previous Irix firefox 2 versions build with at least -O2 has this bug. This was a reason why firefox crashes. I don't expect it doesn't crash anymore, but I experienced it crash much less than before.

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There is no problem. First start the bash, then execute my code.

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Got through it, thanks. It was failing with bash but that was because of a different dumb error which I'm not going to describe


To each his own


We have widely varying opinions on that subject !


You've probably made a significant step forward. With javascript turned off I have LOT fewer crashes. There's also this one, if you want to look for bugs :


and this one ...

and the ever-popular

let's not forget

There's a few more but those are the most common ...