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Hey John,
If you have a clean VM, with a default install of Windows 7, then please try it out and let me know. If you have a dirty Windows XP in the back of your closet, try it out as well. I'd love to hear how it breaks and then improving it.
Would you be interested in the opposite? That is, a (slightly) dirty default install of Windows 7 (x64), and a clean VM with a default install of Windows XP SP3? Alternatively, I could install XP into a new partition on HDD, if you'd prefer.
I'm interested in any testing. I would recommend VM's though so that you can roll back to a snapshot if something goes wrong.
Don't forget to set-up Git (git config [...]), clone torbrowser.git, add my personal repo, checkout 'personal-build'
Could you please expand on this? I haven't used Git via mingw and I don't much feel like taking the time to RTFM ;)
Git via mingw is pretty much the same as regular git. If you've never used Git before, I highly recommend to get the basics: http://gitref.org
After you start mingw do the following. Please try to understand what every command does.
# Setting up Git (Change name/email if needed) $ git config --global user.name "John Crain" $ git config --global user.email "johncrain@eml.cc"
# Set up TBB build folder $ mkdir /c/Build $ cd /c/Build $ git clone git://git.torproject.org/torbrowser.git $ cd torbrowser
# Add my personal repo and check out the 'personal-build' branch. $ git remote add shondoit git://git.torproject.org/user/shondoit/torbrowser.git $ git fetch shondoit $ git checkout -t shondoit/personal-build
# Start building... This will take a couple of hours. $ make -f build-scripts/windows.mk build-all-binaries bundle
P.S. How would one go about using your work for profile build(s) to test benefits of something like [0,1]?
[0] #3978: "Better TBB about:config settings(?); re: browsing and loading speed, etc." https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/3978 [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/3978/tbb-ff-pgo.p...
I
would recommend checking out a new branch and working from there. $ git checkout -b bug3978 It seems that the torbrowser source has changed too much to successfully apply that patch, so I think it might be best to start from scratch and manually apply the changes. How to go from there, I'm not sure.
It's best to start with a clean build first and verify that you can succesfuly build a normal TBB. Only then start with changing settings. If you have any questions about building or changing things you can join #tor-dev on irc.oftc.net and ask your question there. There are more people that can help you there, and I'll be on as well.
Good luck,
Regards,
Shondoit