how about a new application icon? i like the one in use for the G4 builds, maybe the author will let you use them as well.

http://homepage.mac.com/krmathis/

just something better than the plain world.

Hi Neil,

Glad to hear your making these G5 builds again. Is the mysterious History Bug fixed in these new builds?

Really great, I've been using it since November (1.0 verson). Much faster on my G5 than the regular Firefox 1.0 build.

Just a bug report, also sent to the Firefox peeps:

When all windows are closed, except the Download Window, keyboard comands such as cmnd-N no longer word. That is to say, when Downloads is the only window open, I must close it first before opening a new window via keyboard (works with menu-pulldown).

Thanks again.

The link for the 01.25 nightly build seems to be broken...
It's pity, because the 01.20 nightly build has a big problem with some main functions like quit and the 01.16 nightly build doesn't draw all button, e.g. in the forms.

However Thank you very much for such a good job!!

Roger

Thanks for these great builds. I really wish the History would work though. Any chance of getting this fixed?

Thanks for keeping Firefox G5 smokin up to date.

Has anyone else noticed this bug with the latest (1/25) build? Whenever I click a link in another app, it switches to firefox but the page isn't loaded - seems to ignore it mostly.

I just recently discovered Firefox and combined with the extensibility, the G5 optimized build is edging out Camino as my preferred browser. Very cool that you are doing this. Currently everything seems to work as with the 1.0 Firefox release, except links in my email program bring up the browser window, but do not go to the page. Firefox just sits there. Also found out that the Wikipedia extension prevents the preferences window from coming up in the G5 build. Bugs? Workarounds?

Thanks.

External link problem fixed with new build. Cool!

yay! at last new forms :)

Uh, oh...Feb 8th build hoses the preference menu. =(

Why do you call it “Superlove” build ? :)

With the 2.18 build, is anyone else prevented from adding a bookmark by dragging the icon from the URL bar to the sidebar? The only way I can add is by manually hitting the bookmark menu, selecting add bookmark, etc. Bleh to that. :P

Seems there is a new firefix 1.0.1 released now. Im looking forward to the G5 optimized version :)

wow, been using this since some of the earliest builds as soon as i got my dual 2.0 in December... haven't had many problems, and these recent nightly builds are fantastic. thanks for all the work you've been putting into this, hope these optimizations make it back into the trunk!

Very fast and so far, it's been very stable. Thank you.

Since the 02.26, the Locale Switcher and French Language (for me) don't work.
Thank you.

I've been been running these G5 optimized builds for about 2 months, and they've been working great! I just downloaded the latest one (3/5/05). This one has a small problem rendering my site ( http://blog.jalenack.com ). The fixed navbar on the left has a whole lot of weird padding and stuff above it..which wasn't there on my previous builds. Also, clicking on a comment textarea or the search field draws a strange box at the top of the page...The second problem is already filed in Bugzilla, but I don't know about the other. Cya, and thanks!

Very quick and very stable. The only problem I have (but I don't think it's peculiar to the G5 build) is that the Browser window sometimes won't accept any text input - including the address bar. My workaround is to have a Text Edit window open; if I type even one letter into Text Edit I can then switch back to FF and all is well again. Peculiar or what?

(iMac G5, MacOS 10.3.8 - and running, among various other third-party programs, Path Finder - could that last be the problem? I'm no Techie so I'm a bit lost on that one.)

Great work, though. Hope you can keep it going. This is exciting stuff!

Treaclecat, are you running Codetek's Virtual Desktop software? If you are then it's an incompatibility with Firefox which is causing your problem. I don't know of any solution other than to click out of Firefox and then back in, as you suggested with Text Edit.

Same issue here. I simply have to change window to get it working correctly. I found the same issue on mass image-saving.

Another bug, but I think it's due to XUL and Mac OS X : iframe and overflow items aren't well-scrolling.

Apart this, these builds are fantastic. You do a great job, thanks !

I'm still having trouble with the History. Does anyone else have the same problem? Basically it disappears after quiting the G5 build. For me it's unusable in this state. Shame, because it is faster...

Neilio thinks it's due to the compiler.

Can't wait for the next nightly build....

Thanks for that - hope you enjoyed the show in Austin!

Still lose the History after a restart....

The builds rock, but if you could scare out that history bug, that would be awesome (so far the only down-side).

Thanks!

The 3.19 build is retaining history just fine after multiple restarts and is fast as blue blazes. Thanks for tracking down that bug, I was really wanting to use this build full-time, now I can!

History lossage is a known issue:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280342
and is not specific to this optimized build.

I'm compiling FF from the trunk right now... Since this last round of buildings (6 days cvs's updating & build) I had not flaws optimizing with -mpowerpc64 flag. Right now I'm trying this optimizations flags: -O3 -funroll-loops -fsched-interblock -falign-loops=16 -falign-jumps=16 -falign-functions=16 -falign-jumps-max-skip=15 -falign-loops-max-skip=15 -mpowerpc-gpopt -ffast-math -fstrict-aliasing -mtune=G5 -mcpu=G5 -mpowerpc64 -faltivec part of -fast gcc optimization option with the exception of -maling-natural and -mdynamic-no-pic cause of broken builds. Nice work dude, you inspired me to try again optimized G5 FF's builds. THX!

Firefox 1.0.2 has been released earlier today. May I ask for a new G5 version?

And is it difficult to compile the firefox G5 version and are there any instructions anywhere?

The 3/21 build's history is working so far for me. Whew! The other quirks I can live with. ;-)

A differnt icon would be good, I for some reason like this one http://www.interfacelift.com/icons-mac/details.php?id=1416

Thanks for the builds btw, very nice. BTW do you happen to have the build directions somewhere?

This build and several before it break all of my installed exptensions. Can't live without Adblock, so I had to go back to the default build from Mozilla Founation. Hope this gets fixed soon...

Adblock and even the dreaded Tabbrowser Extensions work perfectly (3.19), I didn't even have to reinstall extensions or rebuild the profile!

No problems with extensions here, either. Most things seem to be working pretty well at present - I like this browser more and more....

I'm building a web application with some INPUTs overlapping the bottom scrollbar of an overflow: scroll-ing DIV, and the buttons are not clickable and the DOM inspector refuses to outline them as it does with other buttons.

Unable to download 4/03 build.

In my current build of Firefox for G5 (the 3.24 build I believe), I am able to go Back and Forward by tilting my Microsoft mouse's scroll wheel to the left and right, respectively. But in the 3.29 build, this wasn't working. Does anyone else use this feature, and will it be back in future builds? I haven't tried the 4.03 build yet.

Back tilt still broken in 4.03 build

Hi,

Thanks for optimized G5 Firefox.

On last nightly build I found bug. I dowwnload Yellow Dog Linux ISO image (about 687 MB) and it can not save on disk. I than go to Safari and repeat same download and Safari corectly save ISO image. Download was direct from YDL server not torrent file.

Once again you are doing great job with this optimization. I now use your builds 90% of time.You only have to fix some font problems-I think that is Java oriented and Firefox will be No.1 browser for Mac.

Regards

B.

I understood the issue I described in my first post.
Actually, Firefox prevents elements below (below in terms of z-axis position) even an empty, transparent block (not a transparent image, which is an opaque object with what happens to be a see-through texture, I mean a truly empty DIV) to receive mouse events, whereas Safari doesn't and sends mouse events to elements unless there is something solid masking them.
Which behavior is correct ? that is unclear in the W3C's papers, though I prefer the way Safari handles it, Firefox's way is just as sensible.
I only wish they would agree.

Can we expect a build soon? I notice that a bunch of things were fixed in the official 4/05 build over at the Burning Edge.

Thanks. I really aprreciate your efforts.

Can we expect any new builds? The latest one is from 3rd April, and now it's 12th April. BTW, nice builds :D

I'm sorry if I'm asking stupid a stupid question now, but would you have anything against publishing an FAQ about how-to build those optimized builds (such as the G4 Build author did) or do you wanna keep it a secret?

Is 1.0.3 being worked on yet? The official build is out, but I only update when the G5-optimized one is released.

Please Please, post a build of 1.0.3. Your is (almost) the only version I have found on Macintosh that works with the middle-click on my mouse-wheel. I depend on the middle-click for tabbed browsing. :)

I tried both the German language g5 opt. build (WHICH rocks, its REALLY fast), as well as the official 1.0.3. - But none of them supports mouse-wheel-click.

If anyone else has problems with this, then this strange build also works for me:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-1.0+.en-US.mac.dmg

Its 1.0+ (????) though, but its compiled daily, and not g5 optimised.

ORLANDO ORTIZ:
I made a G5 optimized build when I saw there was none here :) you can get it in the direct connect hub mac.myftp.org
it's called:
Firefox_G5_optimized.app.tgz

Simon, if you send me your optimized build, I will host it on my site for however long it needs to be, until we can get our fix from here ;-)

Since april 3th my builds get broken no matter what optimized flags I use. I think 'our hero' is in troubles too.
BTW, for those of you thinking in Tiger as the blessed solution, I recommend to think in another one: FF don't build at all with tiger's gcc 4.0 neither tiger's gcc 3.3, or at least not to me, the build stops almost inmediately before the ./configure script. No matter what flags or SDK I use, the build brokes...
Let me try tonight... again...
Oh, almost forgot, FF 1.0+ is the trunk's version, 1.0.3 is a branch of it. It's suposed the trunk is up to date without any bugs present in 1.0.3 and, perhaps some many features more.

I have tried to import bookmarks from safari bookmark exporter. I have put the bookmarks in the library/ application support/firefox/profiles but I cannot get the bookmarks to import. Any ideas?

How do I get RSS to work on this? No matter what I do I can't get RSS feeds. Any ideas anyone?

Can this be fixed: when I close the window (nothing open) and then I have to get a URL, I go to bookmarks and select a URL and nothing happens. I have to Open a new window then select a bookmark. Been a problem since 1.0.
Also, like other post, if downloads window is open, but main closed, I can't do anything until the download is done to get another window open.

I like the icon. (G5 build). Thank you for your efforts as they are appreciated!

The latest G5s don't work on my Mac 10.3. The first one did though. It does not open at all. The icon appears and then immediately disappears.

Hetty: Try deleting the file compreg.dat in your profile directory. If that fails, try creating a new profile to see if that fixes the problem. You'll also need 10.3.9 as a minimum to run these builds.

The download links for the nightlies aren't working for me. I just get a 404-type page on the University of Adelaide site.

Is it possible to just compile and post the latest stable version (currently 1.0.4) of FireFox for those of us not wanting the prerelease versions?

I've been using your builds since I can't even remember. I've always wanted to say THANKS A LOT, your work is awesome. The browser is smoking fast.

Thanks for the awesome builds.

May I suggest a different icon, though?

http://www.deviantart.com/view/20705318/

Since about July, I (Voon aka drumsticks) have been building and hosting these Firefox G5 builds, not Neil. Neil has been building release versions of the 1.0.x series. Together, we're sharing the load of building.

I'm glad you're finding them useful. However, I'd like to stick with the current G5 icon for now.

Elfurbe is building and hosting G3 and G4 versions over at http://www.furbism.com/firefoxmac/ You will also find links to my G5 builds there.

Looking forward to a G5-optimized 1.5 beta 2. The G4 b2 build from Elfurbe I'm using on my iBook, with Fasterfox installed, is screaming fast.

-p

The 1.5b2 build crashes the hell out of my iMac G5 -- I ended up having to restart by holding the power button -- when I visit this URL:

http://macworld.com/0796

It's basically a redirection to the Firefoxy app page. I trashed the Firefox folder in ~/Library/Application Support and looked for and trashed every other Firefox related file I could find, but it didn't fix the problem. I'm going to try the 1.0.7 build and see if that works.

Neilio: I trashed ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox, so I'm not sure what else I need to do in order to clean my profile and get rid of the extensions and all. Can you tell me what I need to do to eliminate all my leftover stuff, or direct me to some documentation?

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Using the Apple Mighty Mouse with its very sensitive scroll ball is a pain. When I go to scroll up and down on a page it accidentally moves sideways the BACK and FWD on the browser activate.
Is there any way to deactivate the side scroller feature? ARG!

Burnszilla: what version of Firefox are you using? A while back I lost the ability to use this scroll wheel back/forward feature, and sorely missed it. I now use Mouse Gestures, which are quite nice too, but it might be cool to get that old scroll wheel feature back too.

I had the same problem with Mighty Mouse. The only solution (sort of) is to go into System Preferences>Keyboard and Mouse and to deactivate horizotal scrolling.

If anybody has a more viable solution, please tell me.

Does any of you know if "SessionSaver" plugin works with the latest 1.5 beta2 build?
Thanks.

Anyone else having issues with search engines in the latest build? All of mine disappeared. There's a bug posted in the mozillaZine forums which is kinda close... but it wasn't clear to me if there was a reasonable way to fix it. (Or is it just me? :-)

Why isn't the search bar available for the G5-optimized firefox?

I'm having the same Search Bar issue. Working fine in the official release version. Adding doesn't change anything. No additionals, no defaults, nada. Anyone have clues yet?

I thought I was going nuts with the missing search engines in the Search Bar thinking I did something ;-)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314579
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315027

Perhaps a 10.4.3 bug?

Nope .. happened with my daughters on 10.4.2

Are there no updates? Anyone get the searches back?

Has anyone got the search bar to work?

I'm running that build (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051107 Firefox/1.5 ID:0000000000); alas no joy.

Tried with a new profile, too.

I can second that ;-(

Build 20051109 also does not fix the issue

But, build 20051110 does! Thanks, guys!

There weren't any changes in the 20051107 build (compared to previous builds), but the new 20051110 build has a different optimization string that seems to fix the problem, at least for a few people. Give that a go!

Yahoo .. Fixed! in 20051110 .. THANK YOU

just downloaded the build tonight
it didn't fix google Search Bar

Neil, check your dates. It looks like we've jumped 18000 years ahead in time!

After downloading, would I still need Firefox installed? Or should I just use the Deer Park app and uninstalled Firefox.

When will there eb a final, new G5-Optimized Version of FireFox, now that V1.5 of the "non-optimized" version has been released?

Can you give this newbie a site for Firefox discussions/support/handholding? Can't get themes to download and install. Thanks

Here's the answer to my themes problem: Go to User--Home--Library--Application Support--Firefox, delete the folder and relaunch Firefox. It'll work.

Firefox 1.5 on Tiger freezes the mac, like someone mentioned above, when I visit wikipedia.org. Do I need to get the latest "nightly build" or someting? Thanks if anyone knows...I have to hold the power button down too to unfreeze / reboot the mac. It's an iMac G5.

Just downloaded the Dec20 build of 1.5 for G5. The scrolling arrows don't display properly in the bottom right -- the down-arrow is missing, though if I can hit just the right pixel between the bottom of the up-arrow and the top of the resize box, I can get down-scrolling. The previous build I used (Dec10?) developed the same problem, tho' at first it was ok.

G5 tower, 10.3.9

The latest nightly build that I tried 20060122 for the G5 croaked anytime I tried to bring up Yahoo Mail Beta. Then one based on AJAX. The 1.5 Release seems to be working fine.

Steve

The 0122 build shows up as the 0118 build when I get it installed.

dead link?

thanks for fixing the nightly build links! :)

Page rendering of the 2-21 build isn't working well. The rendered pages show text that is very small compared to the 1.501 regular release.

Downloaded the latest - 20060317 and its named BonEcho.app .. Havn't tried it .. Is this correct?

Build 20060317 (Bon Echo) drag and drop URLs to bookmark folders in the bookmarks bar is still broken.

Some of my bookmark folder lists are not showing completely (missing the top 4 sites, for example) in build 20060317.

It looks like Bon Echo is the Version 2 code (Deerpark is 1.5). Not one of my extentions passed the compatibility test. Guess I will wait until the extention developers come out with their updates.

Maybe the v1.5 path of your source changed?

"The BonEcho Alpha 1 milestone is the first of many developer milestones on the path to Firefox 2," Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering for Mozilla, said in a statement. "We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download Alpha 1, as it is intended for testing purposes only."

The download link for latest build 20060323 is broken, file not found error was reported by the hosting site (University of Adelaide). Perhaps this is due to uptime of the server and time zone difference (accessed in Singapore) ?

I'm curious .. Are you no longer optimizing the nightly deerpark 1.5 builds?

Thanks

does this bonecho 20060330 update the old firefox as well or do i use it instead
because all my themes and extension are invalid now

Neilo, Thanks .. but are you saying that there are no more nightly 1.5 builds?

The bookmark folder is giving me problem after problem.Since going to Bon Echo. I lost all my BK's.
My Tool Bar Far also.

My bookmarks went south since Bon Echo
The BM folder is buggy too.
No history before the download.

I'm having a strange problem with the 20060406 G5 build. When I click a bookmark item from the menu it won't load until I click it again. And if I click one bookmark (which doesn't load) and then click a second bookmark, the first bookmark will now load. You can continue doing this and the previous thing clicked will always load instead of the current thing clicked. This is only happening in the G5 build. The standard build from mozilla works fine.

Is it possible to localize this builds of Firefox?

I downloaded the 20060413 version and the sidebars don'e work. When I do "view" --> "sidebar" I can't see any options or select anything. Also this version seem to run slower on my 2.5 GHz G5

Just a heads up. The 20060501 build has Places disabled already. Be sure to export your bookmarks with an older build with Places and then re-import with the new build. Sidebar issues should be gone once Places is gone.

Hi,
will there be an intel-optimized version of 1.5.0.4 soon ?

thx 4 ur efforts, so far ;)