I built firefox 1.0 when my ss4 had 1.6.2 on it.  It took a while
to build but in the end it ran ok.  Keep in mind though that the 
fast system is either a 300mhz ppc or a 233 mhz 686, so the
110mhz sparc doesn't seem slow when compared :-)

cheers

bruce

"Jon Buller" <jon@bullers.net> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:59:23 -0800
> From: "Jon Buller" <jon@bullers.net>
> Subject: Re: GCC sparc optomizer broken?
> To: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Cc: Jon Buller <jon@bullers.net>, David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>, port-sparc@NetBSD.org, jon@bullers.net
> 
> On 00 Jan 00 00:00:00, 
> Bruce ONeel wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just out of interest, did firefox build?  My SS4 is grumpy about
> > one file so far, grumpy enough that the compiler segfaults.
> 
> I have no idea.  I guess I should try again, but mozilla was so
> slow a few years ago that I haven't tried anything but links-gui
> on the sparcs since.  As I remember it took several minutes to
> redraw the damage from another window, but it was the LX not the 20
> then.  (The SS20 is the "new" machine... 8^)
> 
> Jon