SillyDog701

[Don_HH2K]

Chromeflat is something I worked on to flatten a Mozilla chrome without specifying [tt]ac_add_options --enable-chrome-format=flat[/tt] at build time.

[tt]Chromeflat.vbs[/tt] is a WSH-enabled script that does five things:

1. Make directories for each JAR
2. Unzip each JAR to that directory
3. Delete the JAR
4. Edit installed-chrome.txt appropriately using [tt]sed[/tt]
5. Remove *.rdf files, which Mozilla will rebuild on launch

The benefits:

• A flat chrome starts up faster than a JAR'ed chrome, since the archives are read in a native folder structure instead of through Gecko's libjar implementation.
• It's eons easier to develop for, since you don't need to de-JAR and re-JAR the archives while editing them
• Since Mozilla JARs aren't compressed by default, they take up more space than with a native file structure.

The drawback: I have not yet managed to implement manifest support, which doesn't mean much for Mozilla, though it will completely break Firefox and possibly some far-off Mozilla builds that use manifests instead of installed-chrome.txt.

Instructions: Unzip to the top-level directory of Mozilla, and run [tt]chromeflat.vbs[/tt]. Users of Windows 9x/ME will need to download Windows Scripting Host to make this work; it will work out-of-the-box in 2000 and higher.

Download it here.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 Donzilla/1.1PR1 (WML/1.3)

[Don_HH2K]

I should also mention that Pu7o created a shell script for Linux and OS X that is available here. [tt]chromeflat.sh[/tt] does the same things using shell scripting instead of Windows Scripting Host.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 Donzilla/1.1PR1 (WML/1.3)

[Pu7o]

You might want to re-consider flattening the chrome. According to the folks at irc.mozilla.org, a flat chrome is actually slower than a zip -0 jar chrome (zip -0 being an uncompressed zip file) because of the added Disk I/O that mozilla has to perform. Quoting a mozilla developer:

According to significant testing, flat chrome takes a lot longer to startup
because of disk IO: combining files in a JAR is significantly less overall
stat+read IO.

A zip-0 jar file can be created using Info-ZIP, and passing the -0 parameter to its zip command.

(see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328845 for more information)

UserAgent: Opera/8.52 (X11; Linux i686; U; en)

[Don_HH2K]

That may or may not be true; personally I've found it to be faster, though I haven't tried JAR vs flat Donzilla in awhile, so I have no idea what the true difference is.

I'll still stand by the fact that it's a lot easier to read and make edits to a native file structure than unzipping and rezipping a JAR file.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 Donzilla/1.1PR1 (WML/1.3)

[Pu7o]

by the way, that script calls sed.exe and unzip.exe, plus it calls local copies. I made it for use on windows with the win32 zsh, it won't work on an unix system.

As for your vbs script, you forgot the download link

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ Trunk/20060316 (KHTML, like Gecko) Shiira/1.2.2 Safari/125

[Don_HH2K]

Download link added, my bad.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 Donzilla/1.1PR1 (WML/1.3)

[Antony]

[tt]Chromeflat.vbs[/tt] is a WSH-enabled script that does five things:

What is "WSH"?

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.9.2

[Don_HH2K]

WSH stands for Windows Scripting Host. It's similar to Active Server Pages (a Web standard), but it's designed for use on the local computer. Its principles and most of its objects are the same; for example, I can use Scripting.FileSystemObject from ASP and WSH using [tt]CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")[/tt], and the commands would be exactly the same (save for a client path as opposed to a server path).

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 Donzilla/1.1PR1 (WML/1.3)