No Longer Building Firefox

Posted on February 19th, 2007 by bangbang023

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.

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12 Responses to “No Longer Building Firefox”

  1. leewonjoo, on February 19th, 2007 at 7:31 pm Said:

    i’m sorry to hear that.

    i’m really appreciate for your build. it’s really useful.

    a user from s,korea.

  2. bangbang023, on February 19th, 2007 at 7:33 pm Said:

    Thanks for the kind reply. I find it a little breath taking to think someone from the other side of the world used something I had part in.

  3. xStylezx, on February 19th, 2007 at 10:02 pm Said:

    Thanks for all the builds youve done.They were the quickest trunk builds for me.Hope to see you back to building firefox one day! Btw,im in South Florida

  4. Mad_Overclocker, on February 19th, 2007 at 11:13 pm Said:

    Hello bangbang,
    I want to thank you for the builds you’ve compiled all these years.
    They were the fastest for me too :)
    Too bad you decided to switch to vista.
    Maybe you’ll be back one day.
    A user from France.

  5. bangbang023, on February 20th, 2007 at 10:07 am Said:

    Thank you xstylezx and mad_overclocker.

  6. KHaKi-, on February 20th, 2007 at 5:07 pm Said:

    I’m still using it as I type this, thanks for the great build and take care of yourself. I’ll be lurking :D

  7. MusicalAngel, on February 27th, 2007 at 10:18 am Said:

    That’s so sad :(

  8. Markuz, on March 7th, 2007 at 3:58 pm Said:

    Hi, have u tried the last vs2005 update by microsoft to solve compatibility issues with vista? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=90e2942d-3ad1-4873-a2ee-4acc0aace5b6&displaylang=en

  9. bangbang023, on March 7th, 2007 at 5:29 pm Said:

    While I appreciate the link Markuz, I really don’t feel a need to build anymore. Thank you, though.

  10. Markuz, on March 8th, 2007 at 6:48 am Said:

    Hi again, it’s sad to see that day after day all good firefox builders are going away from building :(
    Yours were really good builds and now the sse2 trunk lacks a very good builder as you were :( Rethink about it for the future please

  11. edgar, on March 8th, 2007 at 12:03 pm Said:

    Wow! this is so sad!

    maybe u can do a weekly or a mothly build, bangbang?

  12. Sasquatch, on April 9th, 2007 at 10:30 pm Said:

    I haven’t checked the 3rd party builds in quite a while. I couldn’t remember your name, but remembered it repeated (bangbang). I looked you up, and found this. Bummer. Well, I guess it was nice while it lasted. Your builds were pretty reliable, and I commend you for that. I think you also stood by the decision to include the printing patch for right click. Thanks for that also. Best of luck to you.

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