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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by rnhmjoj on Friday December 15, 2017 @12:48PM (#15933561)
If you like Firefox but don't trust Mozilla anymore there are plenty of forks to choose from: Waterfox, Pale Moon, Basilisk, GNU IceCat.

Personally I build Firefox from source and maintain a set of patches largely based on these: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-esr-privacy/

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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by Grollicus on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:16PM (#15934256)
I think about doing this as well but heard a lot of bad things about the firefox build process. How long does it take to build for you?
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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by rnhmjoj on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:43PM (#15934431)
They are probably true. Using an i5 @4.3GHz it takes 2.5/3 hours to build. To test changes you must set up a compiler cache or it's going to take forever.
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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by notanote on Friday December 15, 2017 @05:02PM (#15935605)
That seems a little slow. I compile nightly for my own use and it takes around 20 minutes on a haswell i5, using tmpfs for the build directory.
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Re:Unknown Mozilla dev addon "Looking Glass 1.0.3" on browser by rnhmjoj on Friday December 15, 2017 @06:53PM (#15936336)
20 minutes sound like a dream, I don't know why it's so slow for me. Maybe because I'm using Nix to build it and the source is on an SSD. I can't use tmpfs because it doesn't fit in memory without adding swap.
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