Highly optimized Firefox: Swiftweasel

In Ubuntu, Firefox 3 is getting slower and slower. It not only slows down the response in the address bar, but also slows down the switching of tags. When the network is not running, I am simply suspended for over a dozen seconds.

I have used 12 plug-ins, but it is not stuck to this level. Finally, I found this highly optimized version of Firefox: Swiftweasel.

Unlike our previous introduction of Swiftfox, Swiftweasel is an open-source Mozilla Firefox that is optimized and compiled for many hardware platforms.

Swiftweasel uses the-O3 compilation parameter, regardless of the speed, so Swiftweasel is larger than Firefox's executable file. In addition, the series of instruction sets such as Intel and amd sse are specially optimized.

The following is the current hardware compilation version of Swiftweasel3 (Firefox 3). You can find your platform. Note: Core Duo Is prescott, and Core 2 Duo is nocona ):

Athlon64 athlontbird athlonxp k6 k8 nocona pentium2 pentium3 pentium3m pentium4 pentiumm prescott

So how to use Swiftweasel?

You can visit: Swiftweasel download to download the Binary packages of each platform.

If you are a Ubuntu user and add a source Line Based on your platform, you can install:

Dapper Deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/swiftweasel dapper multiverse Edgy Deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/swiftweasel edgy multiverse Feisty Deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/swiftweasel feisty multiverse Gutsy Deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/swiftweasel gutsy multiverse Hard Deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/swiftweasel hard multiverse

Because I am a Core 2 Duo platform, so I installed the swiftweasel3-nocona.

After installation, I will ~ /. All the extensions, caches, and settings in mozilla are exported and copied to the new one ~ /. Sw3). Theoretically, Swiftweasel 3 is the same as Mozilla Firefox 3.

So I started to experience the Internet, hey! This highly optimized version of Swiftweasel 3 is not blowing, not only the address bar is fast, but also the label.

Previously, because the address bar was slow to respond, it was reduced to display 5 entries, and now it is not affected to display 10 entries. With more than 10 tags, the Internet access speed is smooth.

However, it was still possible that there were only a few seconds, rather than a dozen or more seconds.

The following is the default Interface of Swiftweasel 3, that is, the title is changed and the icon style is changed.

If you feel that Firefox 3 is as slow as I do, try this Swiftweasel!

Thanks for the article from the Linux Desktop Chinese Web: Firefox: Swiftweasel, a highly optimized version.

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