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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:49:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101005054908.GA22391@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <i82otf$ith$1@dough.gmane.org>

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:37:10PM -0700, walt wrote
> On 09/30/2010 05:30 AM, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Johannes Kimmel<johannes.kimmel@gmx.de>  wrote:
> >> On 09/30/2010 12:58 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Heya,
> >>> I noticed that my firefox-bin is a lot smaller in memory footprint
> >>> compared to ordinary gentoo-compiled firefox.
> >>>
> >>> Does anyone know what compiler flags upstream applies to their
> >>> firefox?
> 
> Try entering about:buildconfig in the URL bar.

  I tried it, and for good measure, did some spelunking in the
.configure file in the firefox tarball.  I have some questions, before
possibly tweaking the Firefox ebuild and/or .configure on my machine...

--enable-application=xulrunner
will Firefox run without this?

--enable-pango
will Firefox run without this?  I have the "moznopango" flag set, which
is supposed to speed things up, but about:buildconfig indicates that
pango is enabled.

--disable-strip --disable-strip-libs --disable-install-strip
Why?  I thought most packages stripped code after install.

--enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2
will Firefox run without this?

--enable-oji
will Firefox run without this?  And what is "oji"?  I can't find any
mention of what it does.

--enable-mathml
I don't really need it right now.

--enable-storage
will Firefox run without this?  The help says...
"Enable mozStorage module and related components".  Can someone please
give a short explanation in plain English what this does?

--disable-ogg
One thing I might consider enabling.  Is there a problem with Firefox's
ogg support, or any other reason to disable it?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05  6:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-30 10:58 [gentoo-user] firefox-bin optimizations? Mark David Dumlao
2010-09-30 12:00 ` Johannes Kimmel
2010-09-30 12:30   ` Mark David Dumlao
2010-09-30 19:37     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-09-30 20:36       ` Mark David Dumlao
2010-10-05  5:49       ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2010-10-05 13:12         ` Bill Longman
2010-10-05 15:16         ` walt
2010-10-06  3:27           ` Walter Dnes
2010-10-07  4:55             ` Walter Dnes
2010-10-07  7:52               ` William Kenworthy
2010-10-07  7:59                 ` William Kenworthy
2010-10-07  9:03               ` Arttu V.
2010-10-09  5:17                 ` Walter Dnes
2010-10-09 15:53                   ` Arttu V.
2010-10-12  3:19                     ` Walter Dnes
2010-10-14  4:12                     ` Walter Dnes
2010-10-14 14:21                       ` Paul Hartman
2010-10-09 15:54           ` Peter Weilbacher
2010-10-09 15:48         ` Peter Weilbacher

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