I’ve been doing my own builds of Firefox for almost three years now and I think it’s time to say goodbye. For those of you who may not know, Firefox is an open source web browser meaning anyone can download the code and make it to their liking. Five days a week, I would download the code and compile it (put it together to make it a usable program) while also choosing to optimize it a bit more than the default version you get from Mozilla. Thankfully, through curiosity and a basic understanding of batch files, I was able to automate most of the process as the years passed.

So, why quit? Well, since updating to Windows Vista, I have had nothing but problems getting the process to work and it came to a point where I realized I wasn’t enjoying it anymore. I want to thank everyone who has helped me, over the years, deal with problems that I was incapable of overcoming myself (like djeter showing me where to find the call for precompiled headers that I needed to remove to enable all of my optimizations). Thanks for the support guys. Maybe I’ll get back into it all, one day, but, at the moment, I simply can’t find the fun in it.