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Topic: want blazing fast but modern browser?

give swiftfox a try

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftfox

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

seems interesting... I'll try it out when I'm back from vacation...

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

Do the processor optimizations really make that big a difference? Also it seems a lil behind in version.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

I've used swiftfox for a couple of years now, at first (firefox 2x) it did seem to be quicker, using it on my EEE and desktop. However now with FF3 the gain is non-noticeable. Having noscript running on FF3 makes mine run really fast now

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

I've never been able to work out if the gain in speed (if any) is worth it with swiftfox. I just stick with Firefox now.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

i immediately noticed faster loading times, even compared to opera!

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

n1ck wrote:

I've used swiftfox for a couple of years now, at first (firefox 2x) it did seem to be quicker, using it on my EEE and desktop. However now with FF3 the gain is non-noticeable. Having noscript running on FF3 makes mine run really fast now

I've noticed a marked increase with noscript running as well, it's lighting now...

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

I've been running Swiftfox as my default browser for some time now. It is much faster than Firefox or Opera.

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Noscript is great on FF3 indeed.  Not much difference with Swiftfox though, so I stuck with FF3.

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I instantly thought you were talking about Opera 9 when I saw the title of this post. wink

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

Unfortunately it's only on 3.0.4pre* right now (behind 3.0.6) and the performance gains might not be clear cut. For Eee 901 users, I notice there's no Atom build - would Atom have little to gain?

* Note Swiftfox is supposed to have better protection from buffer overflow attacks so lagging a version or two might be a little less serious than it sounds.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

What about Swiftweasel? Its another optimized Firefox.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

anonymous wrote:

What about Swiftweasel? Its another optimized Firefox.

well It's a optimized iceweasel... They're not allowed to call it firefox since it's 100% free...:P (debian paranoia and firefox liking their logos)

from the wikipedia entry it seems like it's better maintained.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

i still just use epiphany, with the firefox speed tweaks to about:config its faster than i could ever want.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

firefox 3.1 beta is a lot faster than anything else, and it just as stable 3.0 for me.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

I had a spot of trouble with the Firefox 3.1 betas cos of this bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467747

It was fixed today so hopefully they'll be getting beta 3 out the door soon.

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

ah, I didn't notice that, it must have been working in some of the earlier betas or nightly builds when I installed the plugins

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

i now use swiftweasel, even prefer it over opera! bye bye my love wink

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Re: want blazing fast but modern browser?

Fasterfox Lite just went to a new version on March 7 at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148

It's strictly experimental but works well on my machines.

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