SwiftFox

The Mad Rapper · 12 Nov 2007 at 12:00

I have just been reading about the SwiftFox browser, have any of you had any experiance using it?

I am particularly interested to know how it compares to Opera and FireFox.

Minto · 12 Nov 2007 at 21:54

it is just firefox with some settings changed to speed it up. Works fine, no reason to use firefox in preference to it.

Sp!ke · 12 Nov 2007 at 22:03

It's also compiled for specific processors so *should* run smoother and quicker if you download the correct one. Not used it myself but I might have a look.

whitecrook · 13 Nov 2007 at 21:45

I used it on Ubuntu Gutsy tests and I couldn't really notice much difference tbh. Still both quite slow.

Core2Duo 2 Ghz, 1 GB ram.

Rich43 · 13 Nov 2007 at 23:45

I used it.. I have found it render's pages twice as fast for me (in a benchmark i tried).. it has many optimizations.

Download this page: http://scragz.com/tech/mozilla/test-rendering-time
Save it as a file (File --> Save as..)
Then try loading it in both browsers.. I am also about to try opera.

I got about 2.4 seconds in normal 64bit firefox on my core2duo and 1 second with swiftfox.

Edit: 64bit opera got 1.5 seconds but it feels very snappy.. opera is a nice browser!

whitecrook · 14 Nov 2007 at 00:07

Nice link thanks.

I'm on WinXP32 just now, but for info Opera gives me 1.5 consistantly and firefox2.0.8 gives me varying between 1.7/8.

IE 7 doesn't load it

Parameter entity must be defined before it is used. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd...

%xhtml-prefw-redecl.mod;
-^

Sp!ke · 14 Nov 2007 at 20:06

Thanks for the link Rich

Bear in mind I'm running on a very low spec laptop. FF under windows takes 5 seconds and Opera 4.5, Under Xubuntu both are within a gnats crotchet of 3 seconds.

edit Swiftfox is typically 0.1 of a second quicker. I really must upgrade this poor old beast