Firefox vs Librewolf Compilation

26 February 2024, 21:48:44

Hi,

Is omniverse Librewolf compiled the same way as Firefox? I'm not so sure about stability.

On side note: I got kernel panic (?) today and up until recently kernel+intel drivers+ microcode was behaving like sh...! So the with the full update of those three at the same time, around 6.7.5 everything went to stable. But Librewolf from onmiverse is not quite stable as Firefox. This is my general feeling. Something's odd. It seems quite OK and responsive and fast, but not so stable as FF. It will exit from time to time without thelling me why. I should have roughly the same settings as Firefox, incl. gfx, but it's not quite the same. Anyway if you can look at some hardening/memory/some flags and hardened more when you compile Librewolf v.123 ("long" overdue, comparing to Firefox...) for omniverse, I would much appreciate. I'd rather have it "slower" than some fancy "optimization" flags that may or may not be so stable.

Anyway, I have a good experience with AVX2 compiled Palemoon. So far its the stability winner. Memory footpring

), tabs, preventing bad javascripts. I like it. Unloading plugin is better too*. I thing proactive nMatrix is also working much better catching more. AB Latitude with some subscriptions with proper syntax is also great. I cannot complain. I've been using all of it for like 3-4 months now. So far it's the winner (Security: prompt fixes for CVEs and proactive ones are extremely regular, a lot of them from Firefox are inapplicable, i.e. not necessary).

So maybe some similar compilation will improve stability of Librewolf to be on par with Firefox. AVX2? Some memory hardening flags. I have no idea! If I had a beast of a machine I would definitely be compiling to no end with all the security/stability flags and testig it... but I DO NOT HAVE SUCH A MACHINE

.

Any ideas?

* comparing Palemoon to all those "chrom*", I can say now CHROM* IS MALWARE (does it lock the hard drive?!!! and what the hell is it doing with memory!). It is malware! (and this endless loop on js to freeze computer... I have a website to test it... Firefox beats the shit out of chrom*- it will simply refuse, just like Palemoon).

Re: Firefox vs Librewolf Compilation

Reply #1 – 27 February 2024, 02:17:50

122.0-1 is the most recent version from the aur. i bet the one in omniverse is out of date as it requires 128gb of system ram from what i recall so i think it has not been updated in some tim/

Re: Firefox vs Librewolf Compilation

Reply #2 – 27 February 2024, 02:20:08

nope the librewolf-bin in the aur is the same version as in the omniverse. i'm at a loss to explain your perception.

sudo pacman -S librewolf
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: librewolf and librewolf-bin are in conflict. Remove librewolf-bin? [y/N] y

Packages (2) librewolf-bin-122.0-1 [removal] librewolf-122.0.1-1

Total Download Size: 63.14 MiB
Total Installed Size: 222.00 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -101.50 MiB

so thee package size from omniverse is smaller?