Firebird

I had to configure a freshly installed Win2k machine for a friend. So I go over and install Mozilla 1.4 and Emacs for Windows. All nicely done and configured, with all the cool extensions from mozdev also put in.

Then on a whim I just installed the firebird nightly for windows. And promptly fell out of my chair. The damn thing looks good, renders really well and is fast! Not to mention all the cool extensions available at texturizer.net/.

That was it! Played with it for a while on the windows machine. Came back to my debian box. Had to get the whole mozilla source code from CVS. Did that. And built Firebird with gtk2 and xft support. I must say it is an excellent browser, and beats the pants off my compiled mozilla 1.4.

about:buildconfig shows:

Build platform
target
i686-pc-linux-gnu

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc 	gcc version 3.3 (Debian) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused 
        -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -pedantic -Wno-long-long 
        -pthread -pipe

c++ 	gcc version 3.3 (Debian) 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions 
        -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Woverloaded-virtual 
       -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -pedantic -Wno-long-long 
       -fshort-wchar -pthread -pipe -I/usr/X11R6/include

Configure arguments
--enable-crypto --disable-tests --disable-debug --disable-mailnews 
--disable-composer --disable-ldap --enable-strip --enable-strip-libs 
'--enable-optimize=-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe' 
--enable-extensions=default,-inspector,-irc,-venkman,-content-packs,-help 
--enable-plaintext-editor-only --without-system-nspr 
--without-system-jpeg --without-system-zlib --without-system-png 
--disable-freetype2 --enable-xft --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2

I guess by version 1.0 it would be to mozilla what mozilla is to IE :-)