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al3xanr0 · #1 Post by **al3xanr0** » 2006-12-19 15:51

For those of you who are interested in an alternative to Firefox, I introduce to some while presenting to others swiftfox. Swiftfox claims architectural optimization which, is an incentive over FF2 which in my experience is painfully slow.

P.S. Feed back is not necessary of course but, always welcome.

Lou · #2 Post by **Lou** » 2006-12-19 16:45

deb http://getswiftfox.com/builds/debian unstable non-free

So, is it only available for Sid? Or do i have to change the repo to 'testing'?

Bulkley · #3 Post by **Bulkley** » 2006-12-19 16:52

Or use Opera.

craigevil · #4 Post by **craigevil** » 2006-12-19 22:32

Iceweasel isn't any slower than swiftfox. Btw there are swiftfox repos, so that you can just use Synaptic/APT to install it :
# Swiftfox - Firefox builds for your CPU
# deb http://getswiftfox.com/builds/debian unstable non-free

Just change it to your release like stable, testing. swiftfox has never played nice for me, but Iceweasel is much faster than previous Debian versions of Firefox.

There are many browser choices like: Iceape/Seamonkey, Opera, Konqueror, Galeon, Epiphany, the Mozilla version of Firefox, and super fast ones like link2, elinks, dillo, hv3; and of course the elite text based browsers like w3m and lynx.

thamarok · #5 Post by **thamarok** » 2006-12-20 19:26

Isn't IceWeasel based on Firefox 1.5 series? If they make a version based on Firefox 2 with tabbed browsing, I might just try that!

meon · #6 Post by **meon** » 2006-12-20 19:37

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#:/home/michael# LANG=C  apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: 2.0+dfsg-1
  Candidate: 2.0+dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0+dfsg-1 0
        500 http://ftp.port80.se sid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The Iceweasel I use.

thamarok · #7 Post by **thamarok** » 2006-12-20 22:20

meon wrote:

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#:/home/michael# LANG=C  apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: 2.0+dfsg-1
  Candidate: 2.0+dfsg-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.0+dfsg-1 0
        500 http://ftp.port80.se sid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The Iceweasel I use.

If you would be so nice, could you make a screenshot of your IceWeasel with multiple websites open? I just want to see how it does look.. if you can upload the image for example to www.imageshack.us I would be very thankful. (PS: I know Google has some pictures of IceWeasel, but I just want to be sure)

Thanks!

DeanLinkous · #8 Post by **DeanLinkous** » 2006-12-20 22:40

with multiple websites open

wouldn't it look like firefox?

Debian Iceweasel is 2.0, last time I tried GNUs Iceweasel it was 1.5 based...

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/iceweasel

meon · #9 Post by **meon** » 2006-12-20 22:50

thamarok wrote: If you would be so nice, could you make a screenshot of your IceWeasel with multiple websites open? I just want to see how it does look.. if you can upload the image for example to www.imageshack.us I would be very thankful. (PS: I know Google has some pictures of IceWeasel, but I just want to be sure)

Thanks!

Had to use tinypic because imageshack did not respond.

http://i14.tinypic.com/4i5vg2u.png

thamarok · #10 Post by **thamarok** » 2006-12-20 22:57

Wonderful! Wonderful!
I'll add sid to my repos and install IceWeasel.
Thanks for the picture!

craigevil · #11 Post by **craigevil** » 2006-12-21 02:09

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061024 Iceweasel/2.0 (Debian-2.0+dfsg-1)

Iceweasel is Firefox 2.0 with the Debian rename

My Firefox Information
http://www.geocities.com/reverendsky/infolister.html

Iceweasel 2.0 pic:

DeanLinkous · #12 Post by **DeanLinkous** » 2006-12-21 02:29

DEBIAN iceweasel is 2.0
AFAIK GNU iceweasel is a 1.5 codebase build

two different projects - same name

thamarok · #13 Post by **thamarok** » 2006-12-21 18:17

DeanLinkous wrote:DEBIAN iceweasel is 2.0
AFAIK GNU iceweasel is a 1.5 codebase build

two different projects - same name

Yeah that made me a little confused and I thought it was the same project... so that's why I wanted to be sure the Debian version is based on 2.0 and not 1.5 like the Gnuzilla one..