DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Moz size-reduction

Afaik from previous posts, flash9 depends on gtk2.

The fact Flash itself depends on gtk2 should not mean FF needs to have it too, does it?

Well, iirc gtk2 and "gtk2 capable browser". Not sure what that means.

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1) the swiftfox way: drop pango support; some size decrease

This is worth a try!

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2) with gtk1; more size decrease

Looking at 'ldd libflashplayer.so', Flash 9 seems to need gtk2.

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3) with Xlib; most size decrease & most speed increase

I once tried '--enable-default-toolkit=xlib', it would inadvertantly quit after a few user actions (e.g. 'open webpage', 'click on link', 'Huh?'). At that time, I did recompile to make sure it was not a fluke. Perhaps I put something wrong in '.mozconfig'? Flash 7 could work - 'libflashplayer.so' [v7] only needs xlibs, not gtk1.2.

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4) when I compiled FF shared, instead of the 11mb half-static official binary, firefox-bin was 74k, loading times dropped, and the total dir size was ~400k smaller than the official..

Yes, 'firefox-bin' decreases, but the 'components/' directory increases exponentially since functions are put in 'components/' as '.xpt' files. If we have a single large 'firefox-bin', we probably would get higher compression with upx, versus many smaller files compressed with gzip.

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How much did loading times grow on a P1? Or is general browsing on low comps slower?
The .jar's were packed without compression to archieve speed.
If all Mozilla extensions were slowed down, how would that affect those without too much processing power?

Yes, I agree this needs to be tested on low-end machines (P1/P2, yes?). Unfortunately, I don't have an old PC any longer; maybe someone else can test.

Comparison:
- Comments were stripped from .js files in 'components/'.
- Did 'sstrip' on .so files in 'components/'.
- For FF-2.0, I removed these files from 'components/':

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libmozgnome.so libmyspell.so libnkgnomevfs.so libspellchecker.so

Official FF 2.0.0.7:

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1. sstrip firefox-bin
2. upx --best firefox-bin
3. du -cs components/ firefox-bin
1648 components/
4104 firefox-bin
5752 total
4. tar -zcf test.tar.gz components/ firefox-bin
5. du test.tar.gz
4548 test.tar.gz

FF-1.0.6 from DSL:

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1. sstrip firefox-bin
2. du -cs components/ firefox-bin
11628 components/
68 firefox-bin
11696 total
3. tar -zcf test.tar.gz components/ firefox-bin
4. du test.tar.gz
4768 test.tar.gz

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