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 1P4blD-0007Fz-Hj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:54:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C826E0676; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 381F9E0676 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:54:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCBFD1B40D1 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:54:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KRKWesoLSHTu for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:54:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D44A1B4024 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2010 15:54:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4bkl-0006kb-De for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:54:31 +0200 Received: from g231185051.adsl.alicedsl.de ([92.231.185.51]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:54:31 +0200 Received: from mozilla by g231185051.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:54:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Peter Weilbacher Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations? Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 17:54:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4CA47BEE.8050906@gmx.de> <20101005054908.GA22391@waltdnes.org> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: g231185051.adsl.alicedsl.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.13) Gecko/20100914 SeaMonkey/2.0.8 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: e61488bc-87ef-41f0-88aa-e856907a2967 X-Archives-Hash: 2d62e93b3167867186b046b5ad7448ac On 05.10.2010 17:16, walt wrote: > >> --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 >> will Firefox run without this? Yes, it will. cairo-gtk2 is the default (last I looked). > You need to pick either that one or cairo-qt if you are building on linux. > >> --enable-oji >> will Firefox run without this? And what is "oji"? I can't find any >> mention of what it does. > > Open JVM Integration: it enables support for the java plugin named > libjavaplugin_oji.so But that will only work until FF 3.5.x. 3.6 has OJI support removed. And as all up-to-date Java plugins without security problems on Linux are not OJI, you will want to not set this one. >> --enable-mathml >> I don't really need it right now. > > Add "ac_add_options --disable-mathml" to your .mozconfig file. Don't bother, or does it matter if you save 15 kB in the binaries? Nothing will run faster if you disable it. >> --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? > > 'storage' is the mozilla wrapper for SQLite, but configure.in doesn't > eplain what that means. I don't see where '--disable-storage' is even > defined, but you can always try it and see what happens. This is the default, and I think one cannot disable it any more. SQLite is an integral part of Firefox by now. The flag above is probably ignored. >> --disable-ogg >> One thing I might consider enabling. Is there a problem with Firefox's >> ogg support, or any other reason to disable it? > > I notice that my own firefox builds do compile the code for ogg support, > but I have no idea what it does or if it works correctly. Use --disable-ogg is you don't want HTML5-like Ogg-Theora movies in webpages. Peter.