Firefox 2.0 parallel install

[Marcel J.E. Mol]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Marcus Hartig wrote:
> >Gawain Lynch wrote:
> >
> > > For those of us that want to use Firefox 2 to browse on FC6 without
> > > having to rebuild half of the system, I have *hacked* up a quick
> > > solution that allows a parallel install of FF2 along side FC6's 1.5x.
> >
> >I've tried the brandnew Firefox 2.0 Release parallel to 1.5.0.7 from:
> >
> >http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/
> >
> >Very fast rendering with the 2.0 version. Faster as with Fedora 
> >1.5.0.7-7.fc6. Resizing windows and web rendering is wonderful faaaaast.
> 
> The upstream builds disable a few key features that we enable, and they 
> do a static build instead of linking everything dynamically.  Comparing 
> Fedora builds to upstream builds is not fair at all.  Besides, I've run 
> the two.  It's not really that much faster.  The overhead in the Fedora 
> packages is primarily because we install a bunch of langpacks.

Well, i tried this 2.0 version and found 2.0 does not 
use all cpu power when several animated images are in a webpage as
in the 1.5 case (see reports from a couple of weeks ago).
I'll created bugzilla 211904.

-Marcel
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