[1] 
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/firefox/20.0.nix#L138
[2] http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Mathijs Kwik <math...@bluescreen303.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Our current expression for firefox [1] contains the "--disable-elf-hack"
> configureFlag. By default this hack is enabled and is supposed to
> improve performance [2]. After a bit of googling, I found that old
> versions of firefox had issues with this hack, so probably this is the
> reason it got disabled. However, these issues are fixed and I've been
> running with firefox20 _with_ the elf hack for over a week now.
>
> Can we remove this configure flag and stick with the default (hacked)
> behavior? Or should this be done conditionally for certain
> architectures?
>
> Thanks,
> Mathijs
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