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Old 05-14-2009, 09:20 AM   #1
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LXer: Swiftfox - A faster build for Firefox webbrowser

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Swiftfox is yet another free browser which is an optimized build of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The browser is fully compatible with any existing themes, extensions for Firefox.

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Swiftfox is nothing but FF compiled for a specific architecture, and with a few changes in default preferences, and with a trademark slapped on it.

All changes can be found here:
http://getswiftfox.com/source.htm

And they used to have the optimization options somewhere, but it's better to use the ones recommended by gentoo wiki.
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