Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/12/14 06:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I once -- just for fun -- compiled Firefox on an Atom N450. This has no effect on the loading time of 20 seconds. ^^ And how long did it take? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:07:34PM +0300, the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/12/14 06:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I once -- just for fun -- compiled Firefox on an Atom N450. This has no effect on the loading time of 20 seconds. ^^ And how long did it

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:59:59 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags - pro: you don't

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:59:58 -0500 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: That is interesting, but firefox requires 8g I think of temp space, the very package which takes so long. I have 16g of memory, but I wonder if my whole system would start to crawl. I would try it. I have only 8GiB. I used to

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-17 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:46:45AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: […] firefox-bin: […] - con: