The following have extracted recent updates from the History of my site.
- September 19
- Uploaded
SkyKakapo 156.0 TEST4. Changes from 156.0 TEST3:
- Applied conservative PGO Machine Outlining and isolated the generated cold functions in a dedicated subsection.
- Uploaded
SkyKakapo 156.0 TEST3. Changes from 156.0 TEST2:
- Attempt to mitigate an issue in the DLL blocklist that could cause a crash.
- When the MOZ_CRASHREPORTER environment variable is set, create a crash dump without submitting a crash report.
- September 16
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 156.0 TEST2. Changes from 156.0 and 156.0 TEST1: Machine Outlining has been disabled to investigate intermittent tab crashes.
- September 15
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 156.0 TEST1. Changes from 156.0: Low-frequency functions generated by Machine Outlining are isolated in a dedicated subsection.
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 156.0. Reduced the binary size while keeping performance impact low by adopting the approach tested in 155.0.1 TEST3.
- September 14
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 155.0.1 TEST4. Changes from TEST3: Code executed during PGO training is now excluded from Machine Outlining.
- September 13
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 155.0.1 TEST3. Changes from TEST2: LLVM 22.1.8 was customized to allow linking with the -mllvm:-enable-machine-outliner=conservative-pgo linker option. The resulting binaries are smaller, while stability and performance are still under verification.
- September 12
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 155.0.1 TEST2. Changes from TEST1: Build toolchain updated to LLVM 22.1.8, Rust 1.98.1, and Visual Studio 2026.
- September 8
- A SourceForge project page for SkyKakapo Browser has been created. Distribution will eventually be handled exclusively through SourceForge.
- September 6
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 155.0.1 TEST1. To strengthen privacy protection, reduced differences from Firefox that can be detected externally.
- September 4
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 155.0.1.
- September 3
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 155.0 TEST1. Fixed an issue where browser icon customization could be disabled under certain conditions, causing the browser icon card to disappear from Settings (Bug 2068288). Also added a button to re-enable the customization feature when it has been disabled.
- September 1
- Uploaded SkyKakapo 155.0.