From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P30ft-00056N-Sw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Oct 2010 06:06:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 845D7E0764 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 06:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CADEDE05FE for ; Tue, 5 Oct 2010 05:49:22 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AmwQAGZZqkxMCqn7/2dsb2JhbACUNYx+gQ1yxT+FRwSNTIQ8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.57,282,1283745600"; d="scan'208";a="78045534" Received: from 76-10-169-251.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.169.251]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 05 Oct 2010 01:49:21 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:49:08 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 01:49:08 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations? Message-ID: <20101005054908.GA22391@waltdnes.org> References: <4CA47BEE.8050906@gmx.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: a4c6f51b-05fc-46b1-bef7-50d8a247bd7e X-Archives-Hash: 634190111dc7371565e33f53ea50ef4d 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 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