Patching Mozilla to run multiple instances

[Tim Wunder]

On Monday 02 September 2002 10:37 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> AFAIK, Mozilla-1.x has this built in already.
>

I was thinking that, too. But I've labelled my build Mozilla1.0+, so I'm 
thinking it's a post-1.0 build, and I can't run multiple instances.

> Just curious, what kind of optimizations did you use to make yours run
> faster?

Well, the main reason I haven't done it again, is I didn't write it down and 
I've lost the link. IIRC, there was a post to a web site on 
netscape.public.mozilla.unix that had the link.
Searching...

Well, it wasn't there. There was a thread called "Can You Roll Your Own 
Quickstart" on netscape.mozilla.user.unix (secnews.netscape.com) that has a 
couple of posts by me, right around the time that I compiled my current 
version of Mozilla. I suspect the info I want is there, but, unfortunately, 
the articles are gone and because it's a secure newsgroup, groups.google.com 
doesn't have an archive of it :-(


> ...I thought that the tarball from mozilla.org was already
> compiled for i686?

Nope, not unless that's recently changed. There was a noticable improvement 
after I compiled Moz with the optimizations. 

I'm reposting to the newsgroup... hopefully by tomorrow I'll have a good 
answer for you.

Regards, 
Tim

(I *realy* gotta start writing some of this sh** down...)

>
> Tim Wunder wrote:
> > Hi,
> > There's a patch on the SxS site regarding patching Moz so that you can
> > run multiple instances. Unfortunately, I can't seem to apply the patch, I
> > get this error:
> > $ patch <run-mozilla.patch
> > patching file run-mozilla.sh
> > patch: **** malformed patch at line 10: #
> >
> > What gives?
> > I'm using
> > $ patch --version
> > patch 2.5.4
> > Copyright 1984-1988 Larry Wall
> > Copyright 1989-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> >
> > Is the patch necessary if running a more recent build? (I've compiled my
> > Moz with some optimizations that make it faster than the generic builds
> > provided by Mozilla.org, so I haven't bothered to update since June --
> > guess I oughta do that now, anyway...).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tim

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