Ich entschuldige mich im Voraus, dass meine Postings nicht auf Deutsch übersetzt sind.
Ich berichte über Updates zu meinen (optimierten) Builds normalerweise auf mozillazine.org und pryan.org, und denke dass auch hier ein Thread eröffnet werden sollte. Thanks to Benedikt for help with the translation.
My builds are pulled directly from CVS (both TRUNK and BRANCH/AVIARY) and built using the free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit. The builds are permanently hosted at MOOX.WS. I design my builds for stability and speed and am currently making two verions based upon included code optimizations for particular CPU architectural instruction sets. Because of the differences in instruction sets, I am have refined my old build naming scheme and adopted the following one instead:
M3 Builds
M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set. Given the nature of M3 builds, they are designed only for the following processors that support SSE2:
- AMD Opteron
- AMD Athlon FX
- AMD Athlon 64
- AMD Sempron (3100+)
- Intel Xeon
- Intel Pentium M
- Intel Pentium 4
- Intel Celeron (1.7GHz - 2.8GHz)
M2 Builds
M2 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE instruction set. Given the nature M2 builds, they are designed only for the following processors that support SSE:
- AMD Athlon XP
- AMD Athlon MP
- AMD Sempron (2200+ - 2800+)
- AMD Duron (1.0GHz - 1.8GHz)
- Intel Pentium 3
- Intel Celeron (533MHz - 1.4GHz
M2 builds will also work on any of the processors specified under M3 above as well as some older CPUs including Athlons, Pentium Pros, Celerons (1.0GHz and older), and Durons (1.0GHz and older).
M1 Builds
M1 builds are generally optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the MMX instruction set. M1 builds are targeted for the following processors:
- AMD Athlon
- AMD K6-2
- Intel Pentium 2
- Intel Pentium Pro
- Intel Pentium
If you are uncertain what type of processor you have or what instructsion set(s) your processor supports, you can use the following utility to identify your CPU: CPU-Z. Download this utility, unzip it into a temporary folder, and run the .exe file. In the resulting window that pops up, check the output for 'Instructions' to confirm your processors capabilities.
The builds you download from MOOX.WS are not installers. They are self-extracting zip files (compressed with 7z) that will extract to the folder \Firefox or the folder \Thunderbird (unless otherwise specified).
As always, if you download one of these builds, please let me know what you think about its performance, problems, missing features, etc!
Also, if you have custom build requests, please PM me!