oooh, i think i'm gonna likey this. thanks!

This is a very nice site. I peeked at the source code of this page, and thoroughly enjoyed your style of commenting, Thanks for a friendly and entertaining experience.

Looking forward to giving this a try.

Fails to launch bacause "libstdc++.6.dylib" could not be found.

This library is present if you have installed DevTools. It is also present if you are running 10.3.9 or newer.

Unfortunately, I'm running 10.3.5 (uptime 6 mos - It ain't broke, so I'm not gonna fis it!) and I don't want to install 500 mb of stuff I'll never use.

Does anyone know how to get the required libraries short of installing DevTools? Note: I am NOT a programmer.

Just successfully installed on my PowerBook G4 (PowerPC,G4 - 1.1). Apparently faster than the standard release.

Would it be too much to ask for a G4 build optimized for the older 7400/7410 processors? I have a "Yikes" 400 MHz G4 tower (7400)and a slot-load iMac I had upgraded to a 500 MHz 7410. These old machines need all the help they can get, an optimized Firefox would sure be great!

Thanks!

Nice job! This is based off of the final release version and not the Beta, right?

You say 7450 or higher. What about the powerbooks that have 7447 CPUs? Is that likely to see a benifit from this build?

Can you build one for the 7410?

Nice site!

Am I to understand that the only PowerBooks supported by this are the old 667 15"- the 1Ghz 17"? Newer PowerBooks use the 7447 instead of the 7450.

Not to be rude, but why can't you put -mcpu=7400 and -mtune=7400 in your CFLAGS? Testing problems? Liability issues? You can't use -fast with 7400 but you can still use -O3 and many of the other performance related flags.

Deerpark seems to work better for FF 1.5 in my iBook G4, thank u very much :) Nice site

I feel I am a little slow here, have been using Firefox just for three months. I have a G4PowerBook with the 867 Mhz processor. Is this release for me? And why?
Thanks

God, leave the poor guy alone, if he doesn't want to do a new build (which he can't test) then leave him alone. It always the same, someone brings out a work of love, effort and sweat to please the masses, release it and then everyone starts to winge. Be thankful and never look a gifthorse in the mouth.

Thanks for all you hard work, works like a charm on my new 12" PB and the old 17". [DC]

Running without problems (so far) on a Mac Mini (G4 7447).

does one know this version also with others spoke to get or re-tool (e.g. German)?

For those on older G4s for G3s, check out ElFurbe's builds: http://www.furbism.com/firefoxmac/

Can you post your optimized .mozconfig? I'd like to have a go at compiling it myself.

I've been using your 1.07 (and earlier) builds for some time. Thank you very much for all your trouble.

It seems that CTRL-Tab navigation through tabs doesn't work any more (it switches between the location bar and the web page; and CTRL-Shift-Tab doesn't do anything). Is this something special about your build? Is it possible to restore the old behaviour?

Anyone know of an easy way to import my bookmarks from Camino to Deer Park?

I'm really enjoying Deer Park, but this one little thing is holding up my transition! >.>

Thanks for all your hard work! This build runs great on my PowerBook 17 (1.67 GHz)- definitely faster and more responsive than the official 1.5 release! Thanks!

Holy crap! That's quite an improvement. Thanks very much.

10.3.9
17" Powerbook 1Ghz

Obviously I am running a G4
but I see no difference at all.
However, both as rocket sleds
compared to Safari.

Nag -

Thanks for building this! I can't wait to try it out.

To further promote Firefox we've created a website that is collecting 1,000,001 reasons to switch to Firefox that regular people will be able to understand - http://thebetterbrowser.com

Check it out and add your own reasons for switching (although you've actually created builds of Firefox, so that pretty much puts you into the l33t Firefoxer category anyways... :))

Thanks again,
Gabriel

What does optimizing for the G4 do? What do you change, and what improvements should one see?

Killer! thanks for this version, i can notice the difference rendering complex pages, and the whole app is much more responsive than the non-g4 optimized one. And it is great that all your settings and bookmarks are kept!!

Im running it on a powerbook 15 inch double layer (high resolution) and its great!

Cheers!!

Hi,

Judging from an email I've received, you may not have enabled canvas support in your build. The appropriate build flag would be --enable-canvas (you can check by going to about:buildconfig). Without this, people won't be able to use fun extensions like Tab Preview ( http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/ ).

ah excellent!!! many thanks :-)

Appreciate all the hard work. Is this release convas-enabled? I'd like to able to use extensions such as Tab Preview which is just so handy if you tab around.

Well, you certainly seem to have sped it up over the normal Firefox build, nice one.
However (and this is to whoever ports it, not you), you STILL can't middle-click on quickbar folders to open them in tabs. Why the hell they removed this functionality I have NO idea. Anyone who is intelligent enough to want to use Firefox on their mac is bound to be using a 3-button mouse, so why the hell did they remove it.
Oh well, back to Safari I go, where you CAN middle-click on quickbar folders.

Nice work. Any chance of optimized thunderbird builds?

This build is significantly more stable on my powerbook than the plain Firefox 1.5 release, which is great. I have noticed that I can't cmd-q to kill the app, and I get flakey performance with clear http auth.

Has anyone else noticed either of these problems? It could just be my system (needs to be reinstalled) but I thought I'd see whether or not these are common problems out there.

Thanks.
Andras

The only problem I see, is the known problem of firefox 1.5 completely hogging the CPU (goes up to 100% usage) when scrolling, or just by holding down the mouse button while inside the browser window.
http://digg.com/technology/Firefox_Bug_Causes_100_CPU_Usage_on_Mac_OS_X
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141710
Open up activity monitor and see for yourself. I don't mean to burst any bubbles, but especially for laptop users, this can eat away your battery life quickly, and also cause some cooling issues.
But i would say nice work on the G4 optimized, this app is alot more responsive than the standard release, and hopefully this bug will be fixed on the Mozilla side very soon, then maybe a new build of this can be released, then it will be the far superior browser for anyone with a G4.

thanks a lot for this build.

it seems to work a bit faster than 'regular' firefox.
i noticed a slight increase in temperature when using the pre-canvas version but now it seems to have come back down.
i have no idea if the two facts are connected.

nice work.

thanks! excellent work, much appreciated

Thanks so much for this. I can't believe how much faster the G4 build is!

I would like to help by building a version on my HD 15" Powerbook. Is there anything I need aside from Xcode? What kind of optimizations should I be concerned with applying?

Can you email me if you are interested in helping me .

I downloaded this, sort of expecting the speed increase to be "not noticable", like my friend who overclocks his stuff for a few extra frames per second. Like anyone can tell the difference.

But, I gave it a shot anyway and I have to say WOW!! BIG difference on the Mini. Immediately noticeable. In fact, the standard Firefox seems like a horrible pig now.

Thanks for this.

Fantastic! Many thanks for all your hard work on this, the application responds much better than the unoptimized FF 1.5 release on the two G4s I've tried.

What command line options did you use ... i.e. if I want to compile my own that is optimized for G4 what should I type?
gcc ....

I love the new speed, but I'm noticing that the page down function doesn't work. I use this a lot. Is there a setting somewhere that I've missed to enable it? Anyway - thanks for the speed bump, it's very much appreciated!

really awesome, but the tab preview extension and foxpose extension doesn't seem to work with this build. it works fine in the regular firefox 1.5 release

Thank you very much for this.

First of all it really does seem very much nippier than the official build, and secondly it gets rid of one of the Firefox quirks that really irritated me; that you could not open a new Firefox window while your existing window was minimised. Now the only thing I really miss from Safari is having access to the built in OSX spellcheck.

Great work.

This is faster, but I seem to be having problems with downloads - they are never complete, and they get renames a random file name...anyone else having this problem?

Some problems on my Mac mini (1.42 GHz). No speed difference. Also destroyed my previous Firefox 1.5 installation (no I did not install over it or anything like that). Firefox just did not want to start again. Then I uninstalled both Deer Park and the "normal 1.5". Normal Firefox works fine again after reinstalling it. I'm slightly confused. Does Deer Park alter my personal settings so much? I'll continue using the normal distribution on my Mac mini. Hope my feedback is useful. Keep up the good work.

I just installed Deer Park but each time I open it up I get a message saying "cannot open because of chrome registration failure." Then eventually it opens anyway. Any ideas what this means and what can I do?

Has anyone else noticed that this is an alpha of Firefox 1.5? Deer Park was released about February time.

Works a treat!

Cheers mate!

Hi,

As with Firefox 1,5, I am not able to run WebCT flawlessly. On the sidebar to the left, I only get the WebCT icons, not the text with the names of the icons. The sidebar WevCT does not expand fully as in Firefox before ver. 1.5.

Regards, - Thorir J

Any way to get the grApple themes to work with this? At present they are incompatible.

Many thanks

bongoman

I'm using it on a Powerbook G4 500mhz, which is the first run of the Titantium PowerBooks, circa 2001. I don't know the CPU model number, System Profiler says:
PowerPC G4 (11.3)

No problems so far.

The build I downloaded doesn't have the "G4" in the icon. What gives? Great job, though. Definitely feels faster.

Never Mind. The icon was different only in the dmg. It showed once I copied it to the Applications folder. You can delete my previous post.

works great on my powerbook 12" 1.5 -- thanks!
wonder if you'd ever do the thunderbird mail program too? same starting codebase as firefox (though still at v1.07)

thanks again!

Thanks for this, works nicely on my Mini. Not a huge performance improvement noticeable so far, but certain things at least seem slightly snappier (tab nav, bookmark management so far). And the nicer form l&f is very welcome. Thanks!

Fast as stink!

The lazy among us don't have to sweat the compile flags.

Thanks very much.

This is awesome! So much faster!

Alexandre

it's faster than the regular firefox 1.5 on my G4 powerbook, but it's still lot slower than opera 8.5, ex. for www.apple.com

firefox 9s
G4 optimised 8s
Opera 5s

p.s they are tested after clearing the cache

read this acticle if you don't believe it, http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html

Thanks for the builds! Any chance you could do a Thunderbird 1.5 G4/G5 build?

Looks like Firefox 1.5.0.1 is out.

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html

Any chance that we can get a G4 optimized build of that?

I just found a possible fix for "page up/page down" not working. You will need to turn off caret browsing in firefox by either:
1. toggle it with F7
2. goto Firefox > Preferences > Advanced > General Tab > "uncheck" the "allow text to be selected with the keyboard" option

Any chance of getting a G4 optimized build of the recently released Firefox 1.5.0.2?

Any chance of getting a Firefox 1.5.0.3 build with Firefoxy widgets :p

Thanks in advance

Never Mind. The icon was different only in the dmg. It showed once I copied it to the Applications folder. You can delete my previous post.