Firefox-pgo in AUR - several naive questions

I just happened upon Ranguvar's firefox-pgo in the AUR. It builds flawlessly with makepkg on my system and the installed binary feels faster than the one from the standard package. I have two naive questions:
1) I realize that it contains the same base src as the standard firefox package, but there are a number of patches the PKGBUILD applies. Any potential security concerns of using this build over the standard one?
2) One only has to build the package once, right? I have been reading about pgo and from what I understand, the package is built once, the user actually bangs on the software while other executables monitor how it behaves to some log files, then, at some point in the future, the user re-builds the package and these log files are used to rebuild the it with user-specific optimizations. Do I have that right and if so, how does one do it with this PKGBUILD?
Thanks for the clarification.

graysky wrote:Do we have a list of these in the mozconfig we can edit to disable?
off the top of my head i think:
ac_add_options --disable-safe-browsing
ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter --disable-parental-controls
ac_add_options --disable-installer --disable-updater
are the main ones. if you go to the mozilla developer center, the mozconfig options are not very detailed in description, they cover a few ones, then dump the rest with little or no details on what they're for. and some are missing entirely.
oh and if you're really not a fan of being tracked on your laptop, and dont arent into geocaching or geo trolling or whatever that "hobby" is
--disable-necko-wifi
and remove wireless-tools from the PKGBUILD build depends. this is used as a poor man's gps by tracking wireless networks around your computer and triangulating to your position from there. i'm still not sure why it's enabled by default, but oh well

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