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From: dk at pwarchitects.com (dk) Subject: Moox firefox/thunderbird builds. Anyone looked at these yet? Eric Paynter wrote: > I wonder why somebody would branch just to do performance improvements? > Why not just work with the mozilla team and apply the changes to the > source tree? > Well a cursory look at the forums suggest that there is indeed a performance gain, and a bit of a following to these builds as well. I gather then that it's a stability issue (etc) with the Official Mozilla team not using his compiler flags, etc for optimization, which makes complete sense in a number of area's (QA for one). There is also suggestions by other posts [1] that he takes patches not integrated into the "official builds", so I gather that he's adding to the code himself in places. All of which is fine and dandy by me; the guy looks respectful of Mozilla trademarks, (etc) and rather helpful in providing this resource. But as I couldn't find the source he compiles from, (post patches) or work he's done /other/ than binary files -- it just smelled a bit funny. > Or maybe I'm just a super paranoid security professional. > > Nothing wrong with that now is there? :) [1] http://www.moox.ws/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29 -- dk
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