I have not been content with the browser tools I have. Mozilla Firefox is a must for me as a developer, but it does not perform very well on Kubuntu. A lot of times it is terribly slow, even creating a new tab seems to take ages. Unfortunately it is unique in terms of the developer tools available on it, so cannot be replaced. So I have been using other browsers like the native Konqueror or Opera and even Flock to find the best combination. I had heard of Swiftfox earlier, but for some reason it did not stick in. Today, I had to find a solution and I am happy I found Swiftfox.
Swiftfox is an optimized build of Firefox for Linux, currently available for Intel and AMD processors. I have found quite an improvement in the performance, enough to make me stop worrying about the speed and surf. It seems to be uptodate with the Firefox versions, and because it is just a rebuild, all the extensions and themes work directly and there is absolutely no difference in the mechanics. This, I feel, is the best solution for anyone on Linux, extracting the best out of Firefox code without having to give up any of its benefits.
April 11th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Firefox has no problems running in Linux - it has problems running in KDE. If you are using Gnome, it will work perfect. Unfortunately, that is not the case in KDE. And I prefer using KDE over Gnome. So, thanks for the tip.
April 11th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Binny, I too had thought that it would work well with Gnome. It sure does work better than in KDE. But I experienced better performance with Swiftfox. The optimized builds seem to make a difference, I wonder if we can try the same with OpenOffice.
May 29th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
[...] more recommendation I would give is to use Swiftfox if you are on Linux. It does make a [...]