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866093 2010-03-11 08:58:00 Swiftfox (getswiftfox.com) is Firefox optimized for for Linux and the CPU and is way faster. mikebartnz (21)
866094 2010-03-11 21:22:00 Any chance of some (good) benchmarks?

Looking at the description of optimisations (en.wikipedia.org), it appears to be simply a vanilla Firefox build (i.e. identical code to the main Firefox tree) compiled using some rather aggressive GCC options - the speed difference is unlikely to be 'way faster', and generally not enough to merit switching.
Erayd (23)
866095 2010-03-12 04:31:00 I'd be interested in that too, though the HTTP Pipelining can be enabled even on a vanilla firefox can't it? Chilling_Silence (9)
866096 2010-03-12 07:35:00 Yep, it can (via about:config). Erayd (23)
866097 2010-03-12 08:39:00 Haven't got any figures but it is way faster on my old box. mikebartnz (21)
866098 2010-03-12 21:30:00 Any chance you could be a tad more specific about what exactly is faster?

If we're talking general page load times, that's likely to be almost entirely due to the pipelining setting.
Erayd (23)
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