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For building firefox I followed the instructions on [http://annasob.wordpress.com/category/build/ annasob's blog]on how to build firefox on different platforms, also looked at build instructions and prerequisites @[https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Developer_Guide/Build_Instructions Mozilla Developing Center(MDC)].

I didn't figure out why it was so slow though on both Vista and Win 7.

First, I tried to build firefox on Vista:

:Intel(R) Processor D CPU 2.17 GHz - 2GB DDR2 memory - Windows Vista 32bit - Visual Studio 2010

and this was my .mozconfig:

:<code>. $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig</code>

:<code>ac_add_options --disable-optimize</code>

:<code>ac_add_options --enable-debug </code>

Then I started to build it on Windows 7:

:Intel(R) Processor D CPU 3.20 GHz - 4GB DDR2 memory - Windows 7 64bit - Visual Studio 2008

I tried to build based on the same .mozconfig file, but the first error I got was related to SDK. I needed to upgrade SDK version based on these [https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Windows_SDK_versions recommendations] to SDK 7, and the .Net Framework to 4. Also I needed to change the SDK version in the SDK configuration tool to 7.1.

At the end, the build was successfully done after 2 hours on Win 7 and more than 4 hours on Vista!

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:BugTracker: bugzilla

:Blog: @ [http://Minooz.wordpress.com wordpress]

* Bugs

: Make is_space() in nsImageMap.cpp HTML5-compliant. Ticket @[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565031 bugzilla #565031]

: Target file to be changed @ [http://mxr-test.konigsberg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/generic/nsImageMap.cpp#110 mozilla-central]

* Helpful tips

: [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/generic/test/test_bug448860.html?force=1 sample bug_test_1]

: [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/generic/test/test_bug290397.html?force=1 sample bug_test_2]

: [http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/layout/generic/test/test_bug416168.html sample bug_test_3]

* Patches

: [[User:Minooz/OSD600/FF/patch565031 | patchMoz_Apr6]]

* Test Page

: [[User:Minooz/OSD600/FF/test565031 | test_bug560531.html]]

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