Get the firefox source from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/3.6/source/firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2
to extract
tar xjvf firefox-3.6.source.tar.bz2
Step 2:
Get all the build dependencies installed
sudo apt-get build-dep firefox
sudo apt-get install libiw-dev libnotify-dev
Step 3:
Configure
Enter the directory where firefox got extracted (in my case mozilla-1.9.2)
change CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS in following to appropriate values based on your processor, see http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/Intel for Intel processor and http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD for AMD
for example, for a core i7 processor
CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -mcx16 -msahf -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse4 -O2 pipe" ./configure --enable-application=browser --prefix=/usr/local
Step 4:
if you have core2 --> make -j2
if you have quad core --> make -j4
if you have core i7 --> make -j8
to time your build call like
time make -j8 or time make -j4 or time make -j2 for i7,quadcore or core2 respectively
Step 5:
sudo make install
Step 6:
to run firefox 3.6
Alt + F2 or from command line type
/usr/local/bin/firefox
