[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, Swiftfox and Swiftweasel

[thirstyh2o]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:52:23 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote:

> I've been experiencing some issues with Firefox lately (freezing during
> general use, lagging during Flash video playback, etc.). 

I'm using FF on 2 machines with Ubuntu 8.04.  Yes, starting at the first 
time FF does it damn slow. Sometimes it takes it from 6 to 10 seconds to 
appear.  

Otherwise it runs just fine, no complaints.

> So I've been using Swiftweasel 3.0.3 lately and didn't notice much
> difference 

I've tried Swiftweasel 3.0.3 PGO myself and did not notice much 
difference comparing with FF either. If it starts a little faster the 
difference might be in a second or two, if any.

There was one website that did not work with FF but surprisingly worked 
with Swiftweasel. So, FF lost on that. But for me it was not a big deal, 
so I prefered to keep FF as my default browser.

BTW, I actually liked Swiftweasel but...

It's pretty hard to favour Swiftweasel more then FF considering the 
developer's support depends of his OS preferences. E.g. he used to 
provide deb packages for Ubuntu and then stopped just because he switched 
from Ubuntu to Arch. So, currently and further on the only option to 
install the latest would be a tarball. 

But keeping that thing up to date would be then a permanent job. 
Especially considering that starting from version 3.0 Swiftweasel does 
not support importing FF profile. Thus in addition to manual "install 
new"/"remove old" one would have to take care of manual profiles moving 
too.

Well, after a thought I decided that using it would require to much of 
effort.