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Update for All (2004.08.18/19)
Tomorrow is gonna be a big day. I am going to start building at 1:00AM CST on 2004.08.19 and will be building the following regular builds:

- FX BRANCH M1
- FX BRANCH M2
- FX BRANCH M3

- FX TRUNK M1
- FX TRUNK M2
- FX TRUNK M3

- TB BRANCH M1
- TB BRANCH M2
- TB BRANCH M3

- TB TRUNK M1
- TB TRUNK M2
- TB TRUNK M3

There will be the following custom builds:

- FX BRANCH M2 SVG
- FX BRANCH Oxp_GAFT7_arch:SSE
- FX BARNCH O2_GAFT6_arch:SSE

And, I will also attempt the following experimental builds:

- SB BRANCH M1
- SB BRANCH M2
- SB BRANCH M3

Now, you are probably thinking, how in the hell will all that be done? I plan on putting all of the regular FX M builds up before I leave for work in the morning. The TB M builds and FX Custom builds will be done by mid-day and if I can swing home at lunch and upload I will. Otherwise, they will go up after 6:30PM CST when I get home from work. If the SB builds finish, they will go up then as well.

Now, points of interest:
1) These builds have the latest mmoy patches (updated 15 minutes ago) as well as my usual tweaks.
2) Threw in the patch for 241363 as well.
3) The installers are functioning correctly now (i.e. like they used to). Double click on the .exe file you download and use the dialogue box that opens to say where you want to unpack the files.
4) Starting next week, I think I will begin doing FX and TB builds on alternate days due to the decreasing number of code changes (esp in TB) and the time required to do a full suite of builds as outlined above. The new schedule will likely be:

- Monday: Firefoxes
- Tudesday: Thunderbirds
- Wednesday: Firefoxes
- Thursday: Thunderbirds
- Friday: Firefoxes
- Saturday: Custom builds only
- Sunday: Probably nothing.

If there is a significant code change to warrant a build on an off day or if release code is available, I will do additional builds as needed. I will also do custom builds on the days similar builds are being done, i.e. FX custom builds on Mon/Wed/Fri.

5) I have definitely been cutting back on SVG builds because they only seem to be downloaded by a few people. Going forward, if you want an SVG build, please email me and I will do it as a custom build.

Take care and as always, keep me informed of problems, dislikes, and likes!

Ich entschuldige mich im Voraus, dass meine Postings nicht auf Deutsch übersetzt sind.
Ich berichte über Updates zu meinen (optimierten) Builds normalerweise auf mozillazine.org und pryan.org, und denke dass auch hier ein Thread eröffnet werden sollte. Thanks to Benedikt for help with the translation.

My builds are pulled directly from CVS (both TRUNK and BRANCH/AVIARY) and built using the free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit. The builds are permanently hosted at MOOX.WS. I design my builds for stability and speed and am currently making two verions based upon included code optimizations for particular CPU architectural instruction sets. Because of the differences in instruction sets, I am have refined my old build naming scheme and adopted the following one instead:

M3 Builds
M3 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE2 instruction set. Given the nature of M3 builds, they are designed only for the following processors that support SSE2:

• AMD Opteron
• AMD Athlon FX
• AMD Athlon 64
• AMD Sempron (3100+)
• Intel Xeon
• Intel Pentium M
• Intel Pentium 4
• Intel Celeron (1.7GHz - 2.8GHz)

M2 Builds
M2 builds are highly optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the SSE instruction set. Given the nature M2 builds, they are designed only for the following processors that support SSE:

• AMD Athlon XP
• AMD Athlon MP
• AMD Sempron (2200+ - 2800+)
• AMD Duron (1.0GHz - 1.8GHz)
• Intel Pentium 3
• Intel Celeron (533MHz - 1.4GHz

M2 builds will also work on any of the processors specified under M3 above as well as some older CPUs including Athlons, Pentium Pros, Celerons (1.0GHz and older), and Durons (1.0GHz and older).

M1 Builds
M1 builds are generally optimized builds that also contain code optimized for the MMX instruction set. M1 builds are targeted for the following processors:

• AMD Athlon
• AMD K6-2
• Intel Pentium 2
• Intel Pentium Pro
• Intel Pentium

If you are uncertain what type of processor you have or what instructsion set(s) your processor supports, you can use the following utility to identify your CPU: CPU-Z. Download this utility, unzip it into a temporary folder, and run the .exe file. In the resulting window that pops up, check the output for 'Instructions' to confirm your processors capabilities.

The builds you download from MOOX.WS are not installers. They are self-extracting zip files (compressed with 7z) that will extract to the folder \Firefox or the folder \Thunderbird (unless otherwise specified).

As always, if you download one of these builds, please let me know what you think about its performance, problems, missing features, etc!

Also, if you have custom build requests, please PM me!