Hi All,

I recently found that a custom(private,optimized) firefox2 build one by tete009 beats K-Meleon in many respects. the most significant was in javascript execution

one of the benchmarks available at http://celtickane.com/projects/jsspeed.php benchmarked the private ffox build: 700+ against the K-Meleon: 1300+

in CSS rendering we fail measurably ffox: 700+ K-Meleon: 2300+

I dont know why there are so much difference in between the two browsers.

would a optimized K-Meleon build make this disparity go away.

AFAIK: Yes - if You can compile it or find someone to compile it for You.

I remember that it was done but know no technical details since I am too lame to build a k-m myself.

See url about:buildconfig for details of compiler settings used by current k-meleon and tete009's build. They are normally at that place.

You would take the sources of K-Meleon and use the settings of tete009 about:buildconfig, or other more detailed info if You find it,

plus the patches and additional dll found via links at tete009's page
http://www1.plala.or.jp/tete009/en-US/software.html#FIREFOX
He mentiones some things like:

# Applied mmoy's image patches.
# Applied libpng 1.2.12 and enabled MMX option (referred to Ayakawa's site).
# Applied Miyasaka's IJG's JPEG software with x86 SIMD extension V.1.02.

You will use those suitable for Your purpose - but must know Yourself or find someone to tell You.

p. s. You will still find an old 0.8.2 k-meleon that performed much faster than any other official 0.8 or 0.9 during the time when it was new.
In fact only the very newest k-meleon's can reach its speed again.

http://www.lontronics.nl/index.php?m=0006.

& AFAIremember test builds of 0.8.2+ for specific cpu existed also.

I don't have MS VC++ on my machine.

Today I downloaded dev-cpp the window port of gcc.

I am afraid,Even if I could build K-Meleon myself It would not be as efficient as one built with VC++.

is anyone here willing to do it for all of us !

MS has bad press, but they give free compilers and in this way support free software. Which i deduct from this:

http://www.mountaininterval.org/mozilla.html

The problem seems that we need a volunteer.