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Cyfr
June 15th, 2006, 12:16 PM
Hey, on my old laptop I had a normal pentium-m cpu and downloaded swiftfox.. I was really impressed at the improved times.

I've since got a intel centrino core duo laptop with 686 kernel and noticed there isn't a binary for this on www.getswiftfox.com

Is swiftfox just firefox but compiled from firefox source on your cpu? If it is I can just get firefox source and compile it right? Or is it more...

Help :D
fuscia
June 15th, 2006, 03:00 PM
i thought swiftfox was only for amd processors? http://www.getswiftfox.com/
FredB
June 15th, 2006, 03:07 PM
Hey, on my old laptop I had a normal pentium-m cpu and downloaded swiftfox.. I was really impressed at the improved times.

I've since got a intel centrino core duo laptop with 686 kernel and noticed there isn't a binary for this on www.getswiftfox.com

Is swiftfox just firefox but compiled from firefox source on your cpu? If it is I can just get firefox source and compile it right? Or is it more...

Help :D

It looks to be only CPU optimized, using -mcpu=name of cpu in optimization line... And a 3rd party artwork.
Harold P
June 15th, 2006, 03:09 PM
i thought swiftfox was only for amd processors? http://www.getswiftfox.com/
They have builds for Intel, too.
FredB
June 15th, 2006, 03:14 PM
Yes. And it is faster only (??) because it uses -O3 instead of -O2 in optimization line ;)
Cyfr
June 15th, 2006, 04:28 PM
It looks to be only CPU optimized, using -mcpu=name of cpu in optimization line... And a 3rd party artwork.

Could you tell me how I could compile a normal firefox source then? (with the cpu optimisation flag I mean). Im unsure of how to do this in ubuntu. Because it really does seem a lot faster on my other laptop!