It did seem to run a bit quicker for me, and I really like the icon, but it kept "unexpectedly quitting" after I tried to use Password Manager to store my TypeKey password. So often, in fact, that the word "unexpected" seemed totally inappropriate.

It refused to start again after that - even with a restart of the machine, so I had to reinstall the standard version :-(.

Oh my God, thank you, it flies on my 20" imac!

Send me your paypal addy!

I thought my internet connection was slow. Well, it 's not. It was my browser. This build runs fast and reliable on my machine (10.3.6/Dual 1.8)

WOW! I am so impressed! Just installed on my dual 1.8 and Firefox screams! I am on a new cablemodem provider and thought my connection was just slower(probably is, but now it doesn't matter). Kudos to you! One thing: I miss the new force windows to open in a new tab. That feature is a must have. Any chance of regaing it?

No problems here, but no noticeable speed increase here (dual 1.8) either. Not that it's really needed. Pages load in a second or so anyway ;)

I love the icon and form widgets though!

8 Nov built: Blazingly fast, but it quit working after a while. It wouldn't let me enter text into the address bar. FWIW I've had the same symptom with earlier beta's of Firefox. I trashed everything I could find anywhere with mozilla/firefox/camino in it, and couldn't make the problem stop. So I went back to the current regular build, not the g5 optimized one, and all is well again.

Call me a dumb@#% but how do you install it for the powerbook version?

I was interested to try out a faster FireFox but in my case, Firefox crashed as soon as I hit the doewnload button. I am running OS X 3.6 on a G5 1.8 single W/1.5 gigs memory.
I'll try again in a day or two.

what exactly makes it faster than the "normal" builds? G5 specific opts? Just curious.

two things that i wish firefox did like safari: 1) automatically decompress all downloads and delete the compressed versions, and 2) i would like to be able to hit tab to get to the submit buttons on forms.

Funtastic, Fast , fully functionable.
The MacOSX Bowser de Luxe*****

Wow. This is cool and the form widgets are nice.

The Find bar doesn't work, though. It is really big and the icons are all small and messed up. Does that have something to do with using a weird theme?

thanks

Firefox seems to be working fine but sloooow on mi iMac G3 :-(

BTW has anybody imported his bookmarks from Safary and if yes, How?

How did you compile this? I'm asking because I'd like to compile localized version. Thanks in advance if you answer!

Hmm... An optimized G3 version would be great.

I was wondering in some of the specific OS X builds of Firefox, and other browsers using that code base, if the programmerss have looked at optimzing there code using Shark? This would be a great way to speed up Firefox, Camino, etc. Apple just posted a good article on the ADC on this topic.

http://developer.apple.com/tools/sharkoptimize.html

Neilio: i have built firefox using G5 optimizations as well. apple ships gcc 3.3 with panther, which is what you used to build this version. according to the GCC website, there are no optimizations for 970/G5 until 3.4. it seems as if apple has added these mcpu flags to their branch in 3.3. my question is, does using these flags actually provide any optimization? i have been hesitant to distribute my builds due to this question i cannot answer.

instead i have spent time attempting to use newer versions of gcc to compile firefox. while i can easily boostrap newer versions of gcc, i am unable to build firefox with these compilers.

also, i do want to point out that you CAN build for other apple processors (G3, G4). just change the optimization flags in your .mozconfig.

How the hell do you install it? I downloaded the 11-10 files on the server and all it is is a bunch of directoies and files.

Atom, if you use -mcpu=G5 on a G4 or less processor, your program will likely die with SIGILL, illegal instruction error.

So clearly Apple's GCC does use G5 (and G4 if you specify -mcpu=G4) instructions. I have been doing quite a bit of work with Shark lately, and it's very interesting. The one thing that I can't seem to have work properly is loop unrolling. Maybe it's a bug in GCC 3.3, or Apple's version or something. I'll have to contact tech support.

Seems faster bit very unstable on my dual 2.5 G5, particularly when going to menu bar.

seriously buggy on my dual g5 1.8 on 10.3.6 -- why build this when it (1) takes away obvious functionality (2) adds bugs to an otherwise stable project

one of the many noticeable bugs only introduced in this G5 version is that my menubar bookmarks are no longer selectable from the pulldown menu -- however, in the official 1.0 release everything works. so -- besides other things mentioned this is unacceptable.

please stop this silly project, you are making firefox look bad!

Upon further investigation, G5 firefox seems to conflict with URL Manager Pro. G5 firefox crashes when accessing bookmarks from running URLMP. Also when running URLMP if I try to access G5 firefox preferences with menu pull down or contextual menus G5 firefox also crashes. Turn off URLMP and everything seems to be ok. Too bad URLMP is very handy.

I'll be waiting with bated breath...

Wonderful..no doubt he'll have something useful to offer.

To Jeff and others who've seen the Firefox text entry bug: are you running Codetek Virtual Desktop? If so - there is a suspected bug when operating the two simultaneously:
http://www.versiontracker.com/php/feedback/article.php?story=20040630055835257

I switched to using Desktop Manager and the text entry/URL bar bugs went away completely.

I corrected that error on my site :)

I built the G4 version on my 1.5 GHz PowerBook G4 and it screams.

Dude. This G5 optimized build be HELLA FRIGGIN FAST on my G5 2.0 Dual CPU w/2.0 Phat gigs of the Rizzam.

Finally - after a decade - the Mac has a browser that approaches the speed of IE running on a very fast WIndoze box.

I like to build a version for my g3-800 but i don't kwow what optimization flags to change in the .mozconfig file.

Does anyone have an example .mozconfig file for building on a iBook G3-800?

Thanx

Well, I have to say that I've tried this on my 1GHz G4 12" PowerBook, and this G4 build of Firefox is noticably quicker. The speed improvements seem to be throughout - page load times, moving between tab times, everything!

I read somewhere that each of the various browsers has something unique to offer, and its deciding which one of these unique features most appeals to you that should decide which browser to use by default. Safari is OS X native (and therefore uses great technologies such as Keychain, etc.). Camino is also OS X native, but attempts to have a have 'the features that Apple forgot'. Firefox is good if you want the same browsing experience and UI, no matter what platform you're running it on. Great for Windows and Linux where there aren't many native technologies to exploit, but not so great on OS X - so Firefox on OS X doesn't even get the native ability to spell check in text boxes (something that every native OS X app gets by default). It also means that Firefox isn't going to be super-fast optimised for any platform. Probably more work has been done on the Windows version. OS X users are probably getting simply a re-compiled-for-OS X version with little or no optimisation for some of our platform's native abilities.
These G4 and G5 optimised builds using the latest GCC compiler are definitely a step in the right direction to getting a much more optimised OS X version.

Swings and roundabouts. It just so happens that Firefox has impressed me enough now to tip the balance, and I've made it my default browser over Safari. My one niggling concern was its speed, and now that doesn't seem to be a problem.

Well done!

Absolutely flies on an iMac G5 !!! Loads Apple's homepage in <2 seconds!!!

But... you've accidently put excess data in with the .dmg file.

It runs like a dream on my PM G5 1,6. Good work and thank you. I hope that Apple will work with OpenSource in a positive way in the future.

It turned out that it was the URL Manager Pro/G5 Firefox incompatibility that was causing the crashes that I was seeing too.

I love the speed of this build on my dual G5. However, I'm having an issue where the browser history disappears after 1 day (should be the default of 9 days). Has anyone else seen this behavior?

Thanks!

Just installed g5 version and found a substantial speed increase. Works fine no problems with drop down menus. I'm on a g5 1.8 with 1 GB memory using 10.3.5.

I build a optimized ppc750 Version for my iBook G3 800. It feels snappier, but i think it is not really worth the effort.

Have fun: http://schlaefer.macbay.de/index.php/Main/FirefoxBuilds

g5 build is great! but the scroll wheel button on my mouse can't open up new tabs when clicking on links. other than that i love it!

History didn´t work for me in the G5 optimized version. History works in the official release.

Why doesn't history work?

I'm also having the history problem mentioned in comments #41 and #45. I have a G5 Dual 2.0 GHz (2004) with 4.5 GB of RAM. I have the Web Developer Extension, Gmail Notifier, BugMeNot, and CopyImage extensions installed. I'll try disabling them, to see if there might be a conflict there.

My history is fine in the official build and with the PowerBook G4 build.

Wow … thanks … great on my 20" iMac G5 … I trade online and time is often of the essence … sites that took 6 or 7 seconds to display now pop up in a second or 2 … bless you

I tried creating a new profile... but I still have the history problem. Whenever you relaunch the G5 build of firefox almost all of the history gets wiped out... leaving just several entries. Anyone have any ideas on how we might solve this?

Thanks for the reply! I love the speed of your build and bet a lot of people will use it full-time once the history stuff gets figured out. Keep us posted as to whether the 10.2.8 support makes a difference. Are there different gcc versions to try as well (tiger pre-release xcode)?

Any idea why the build of 11/25 expands as a document and not an app?

I get the same problem as John - just end up with a file ending in d99d6. What should i do with this file? i must need to do some further expansion, as an .app is a folder, whereas this definitely isn't.

HELP!

Unfortunately now we just get a not-found from .Mac themselves.

The G5 version does not open correctly on my computer. It gives a screen that says "dialogue" and nothing else. Any ideas?

Hello,

I have just find out the G5 version of FireFox. I downloaded it and only get on opening a small window with 2 colored terminal command. Does someboby know what is going wrong ???

Robert

Same problem here. Launched Firefox -get a small window displaying two commands with apparent apparent errors :

<window id="main-window"
^

<command id="cmd_delete"
----^

Same here as Sathya and Lespa.

Thank you for the great app but this latest build you just put up will not open up :( It says unknown file compression.

I got the same error as comment #58 when trying to use the 11-25 build (this was yesterday, haven't tried the new one yet).

Just a quick question, Neilio: is the history bug still present in this build?

Update: The new 11-25 that was uploaded works fine -- no more errors on startup. Haven't been able to check whether history bug is completely solved yet, though.

The new 11-25 download now works for me. It also appears the URL Manager Pro crash is fixed...hasn't crashed on me yet using URLMP.

I may have spoken too soon. Upon further use, the new 11-25 build is still unstable with URLM--it still crashes, but better than the old build--but not immediately.

Just wondering ... What about doing a build with IBM xlc compiler ? Is that even possible ? I remember reading somewhere that IBM compiler was producing quite faster code for G5 than GCC 3.3

what about using the IBM xl compiler to generate a optimize build of firefox for G5 ?
From what I've read, the code produce by it is quite faster than the one GCC produces ?

Any updates coming or expected? Now that the nightlies have fixed/added the feature for middle click to close tabs I would really love an optimized version if you have the time. A fix for the history bug would also be greatly appreciated :)

Thanks for your time and effort!

This build is really faster than the original. I have a very few problems but sometimes Firefox gets incredibly slow and eats almost all the cpu power (on a G5 dual 2,5ghz

History bug is a total bummer. Took me a while to trace it back to this build, too.

Just workin great and very fast, no bugs at all (till now), and even history works as it should!
Using the latest build, 10.3.8 and a single G5 1.8 (first generation build)

I would be thrilled if a german localised v 1.0.1 could be released...

The widgets are a different size to the standard firefox widgets, some of my sites now look all funny. Is there a way to make it use the standard firefox form widgets?

Now that you have eliminated the bugs in the nightly version, do you think you could redo the official 1.01 release?

Middle clicking links doesn't work in this build for me (nothing at all happens), but it works fine in the official release version (i.e. links open in a new tab.

Hi all not nativly speaking People out there. I you loved to get your G5-Firefox build to be in your language just read on!

There are so called MLP where you can get a *.xpi File that mostly is offered for windows but they also do work with MACs (actually they are normal zips. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/l10n/

I took the german MLP Project and downloaded the de_DE.xpi for Firefox 1.0.6 from their offical website (http://www.firefox-browser.de/). Witin Firefox you need to open the XPI File and install it this way. Afterwards you can start your firefox with using "-contentLocale de-DE -UILocale de-DE". Spanish localization would look like this "-contentLocale es-ES -UILocale es-ES" (if you installed the spanish XPI. But starting Firefox this way is not very practical. So i just added a little bash Script that looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
./firefox_de -contentLocale de-DE -UILocale de-DE

This Bash Script must be located whereever your Firefox is located. But be carefull! If you are searching via Spotlight for "Firefox" you will get as location: /Applications

But when you use the Terminal to have a closer look at firefox you will quickly see that the Applications itself are all Directorys with some more stuff in it. For Example the Firefox Executable is located in "/Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS". This is also the place where to place your bash script. I would suggest to rename your firefox binary to firefox_{yourISOshortcus} (for germany: firefox_de). Then add write and save your bash script as firefox and 'chmod' it the right way (chmod -755 firefox).

Thats all for a german G5 optimized Firefox. Sounds a lot but i tried to be precise. This all took me about 10 min to find out and to implemt. I think its less than a minute if you did it once.

Have fun all out there!!!

Greets,

Chris

The link you posted gives a 404. It should have a lowercase g.

wow, that the thing!