My main laptop is dead, so I’m on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don’t like the defaults it provides.
Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I’ve read that having way too many extension is bad - there’s an unbelievable amount of these plugins. IceCat being on the older ESR version is a big no when it comes to security. Last but not the least, I want to create a separate, non-secure profile to use normal pages, but IceCat has hard-coded blocks on several websites.
And that is exactly why I’m looking to move to LibreWolf. But the issue is that there is no pre-built binaries available for my distro. I’ve waited the entire day for this browser, and I’m tired of having to come back to a frozen desktop, or build fails while waking from sleep.
I’m trying the build once again, and I just wanted to know how long it takes to build, so that I can leave it uninterrupted.
I would assume the building time on such a machine will be somewhere within 5-14 days (no sarcasm). Use the flatpak or a binary from the AUR
I would not say that necessarily. I asked the Gentoo people and they had similar setups with 12h. At 4GB ram it’ll mainly come down to swapping, so disk speed.
If the 5 days were you experience, was it using a slow hdd?
Edit: remember to disable pgo, wherever you see it. It can double your compile times
Someone told me that Chromium builds for 2 days on a modern system. I know that Librewolf is smaller but the OP’s system is much slower so that’s how I assumed the build time
I built it 6 months ago on a 3700x, took 3h. Where firefox took 20 minutes
For reference my modern system sits well below 20 minutes without pgo, and below 40 with.