Re: [vox] inane comment about mozilla

[Gabriel Rosa <grosa@ucdavMAPSis.edu>]

The biggest problem people had with mozilla was/is it being slow and a
memory hog.

I say: user error.

most people don't bother building it themselves with the correct options
(--disable-debug and --optimize being the biggies).

I've been using the following config since 0.9.5, and it's been fast and
rock solid (except for 0.9.7, which had memory leaks).

grosa@monkey:~$ cat .mozconfig
# sh
# Build configuration script
#
# See http://www.mozilla.org/build/unix.html for build instructions.
#

# Options for 'configure' (same as command-line options).
ac_add_options --disable-xprint
ac_add_options --disable-logging
ac_add_options --disable-mailnews
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
ac_add_options --enable-optimize=-O3
ac_add_options --disable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-strip-libs
ac_add_options --enable-elf-dynstr-gc
ac_add_options --enable-crypto
ac_add_options --disable-jsd
ac_add_options --disable-ldap

-Gabe

ps. the debian builds seem to be pretty good, dunno about the moz.org/rh/etc
binaries.

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Robert G. Scofield wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 May 2002 02:31 pm, you wrote:
> > i just used mozilla, and i'm really impressed at how fast it has become.
> > and stable too.
>
> I gave up on it about a year ago.  I've never hated a program as much as I
> have Mozilla.  It crashed about once every three uses.  I think that it
> requires a lot of memory.
>
> It's funny, but I had two separate Mozilla's on two separate accounts.  I
> kept upgrading on my personal account, but stopped upgrading on my business
> account because the version on my business account was stable.  In other
> words, my experience is that some of the later versions were actually more
> stable than one of the older versions.
>

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