[tor-qa] test 32-bit Linux TBB with Firefox optimizations re-enabled

[Katya Titov]

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-i686-2.3.25-TEST-8-dev-en-US.tar.gz
> 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.
-- 
kat