Erinn Clark:

Hey everyone,

We've been hearing from people for a while that the FF 17.0.x bundles are unusably slow because we disabled optimization during build time. The reason we did this is because building on Debian Squeeze resulted in a strange build crash. I re-built all of the stable 32-bit Linux TBB on Wheezy, with optimizations re-enabled, and would appreciate it if any of you could test it. I'm specifically worried about backwards compatibility, so if any of you are running older Linuxes (like anything CentOS, for example) I'd love to hear if you have any problems. Likewise, for modern Linuxes, please let me know if the usability problems have gone.

The package is here: https://people.torproject.org/~erinn/qa/stable/tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.... sha256sum: ed94e886207aa727dd0d7693f9a45beef232dfb3f9df2281ba72961dc6a92e04 tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.3.25-TEST-8-dev-en-US.tar.gz

There's no rapid time limit on this one -- I just need to get some feedback before upgrading all of the build systems, so being as thorough as possible is great.

Thanks very much!

Erinn

Hi Erinn,

Testing on:

Platform: Debian 7.0 "Wheezy" Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU B950 @ 2.10GHz

So this is a 64-bit system and I usually run a 64-bit TBB.

Testing tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.3.25-8-dev-en-US.tar.gz:

Everything runs as expected. No extensive testing performed.

Testing: tor-browser-gnu-linux-i686-2.3.25-TEST-8-dev-en-US.tar.gz

Tor and Vidalia work as expected. Once connection to the Tor network is established a window pops up and disappears. It it too fast to see what the window is but I will assume that it is Firefox. So Firefox appears to crash on launch. ps aux shows no Firefox process running. Tor is still running, and I have sucessfully proxied several apps through the SOCKS port. (This email is coming from Claws Mail through the TEST TBB.)

So the current stable i686 TBB works, TEST i686 not so much.