Swiftfox, a faster Firefox

[monkeyface]

Sounds good, but does it change the name from Firefox to Swiftfox? if so, that doesn't sound very good..

[monkeyface]

How much faster it was? I'm currently downloading it to test it out, first run on normal firefox: 5.5 second: 6.4 third: 6.7.

EDIT: Swiftfox

First: 2.5
Second 3.24
Third 3.39.

That's about two times faster. Holy*.

And in normal usage it's also a lot faster than Dappers default firefox. Thanks for the tip.

Maybe it is time to switch to Gentoo? Didn't knew you actually can feel a difference..

[John.Michael.Kane]

Can't one just copy the about:conf settings for swiftfox, and apply them to ubuntu's firefox, and have the same effects.

[monkeyface]

Can't one just copy the about:conf settings for swiftfox, and apply them to ubuntu's firefox, and have the same effects.

No, the binaries is compiled with MMX, SSE etc. and are optimized for athlon-xp.

[pgmario]

One question, how will the update in ff work? Will there be no problem updating?

I don't know. It says "Automatically check for updates for Swiftfox" in the preferences, but I don't know if this really works. You could either mail the developer and ask him or just wait until 1.5.0.2 of FF2 comes out.

Sounds good, but does it change the name from Firefox to Swiftfox? if so, that doesn't sound very good..

It does change the name, but it still credits the Firefox developers.

Maybe it is time to switch to Gentoo? Didn't knew you actually can feel a difference..

If you think it's worth compiling EVERYTHING yourself, go ahead. But I don't want to start any flaming here, everyone can of course do what suits him best

Can't one just copy the about:conf settings for swiftfox, and apply them to ubuntu's firefox, and have the same effects.

The effects don't have anything to do with about:conf, but can only be applied with optimization flags when compiling the application from source. Of course you can then tweak network settings under about:conf in both FF and Swiftfox or use the Fasterfox extension to speed things up even more (I'll add this extension to the how-to).

[dralaroc]

Celeron is a Intel cpu, this build is optimized for Athlon cpus...

One question, how will the update in ff work? Will there be no problem updating?

Yeah I know. I installed Dapper this past weekend. I was using Breezy, and I am just having loads of fun installing stuff to see how it works, what effects that it has on my system etc. I am new to this linux stuff 2.5 weeks now and I have already installed then reinstalled the Os about 5 times. I guess you can say I break it to fix it. Sorry to get off topic. Dapper runs like a champ by the way!!

[i3dmaster]

Hello,
I'm trying the 1.8 build right now it really seems faster.
But maybe because of 1.8 I'll have to try the 1.5 later.

Are you talking about Mozilla 1.8 or firefox 1.8..? I've never heard firefox is going to ver 1.6 above even dev release...

[i3dmaster]

http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/test-rendering-time, as mentioned in my first post.

I used Opera9 TP2 to test the same thing and it seems much faster than firefox.

[pgmario]

Are you talking about Mozilla 1.8 or firefox 1.8..? I've never heard firefox is going to ver 1.6 above even dev release...

In contrast to the 1.5 number, 1.8 does not refer to the Firefox version, but to that of the rendering engine Gecko. Gecko 1.8 is the foundation for Firefox 1.5, as you can see in this roadmap.

[pgmario]

I used Opera9 TP2 to test the same thing and it seems much faster than firefox.

I don't have Opera installed at the moment, so I can't comment on its speed. The reason I don't have it installed is that I really like Firefox's extension system. I think the last version of Opera I ran was 8.x and I didn't like its interface (many, many options, yet not some of those which some Firefox extensions give you).
But if you prefer it, ok. It's adhering to the standards, so I won't try to convince you to use Firefox.