[ubuntu-in] Swiftfox versus Firefox

[Ritesh Sinha]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM, K Ramnarayan <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> recent there were some articles on swiftfox, the distribution (os) specific
>
> implementation of firefox. Its supposedly a bt faster and also better to use
>
> because of it better integration with the installed OS.
>
> I have installed swiftfox from the apt-get repos for this purpose.
>
> Am using it and can say that it seems n diiferent in features from firefox
> but
>
> haven't seen an noticeable difference in performance,
>
> So question is how does one compare browser performance, is there any one
> else

You could try subjective things like playing 480p or 720p flash and
see if there is a difference in perceived quality. More objectively
there's always the SunSpider suite to test for JS performance. This
might also work

http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper/index.action


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