http://www.linuxextremist.com/2006/09/02/the-swiftfox-experience/ An Eccentric on the Bleeding Edge between Madness and Windows Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:33:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.linuxextremist.com/2006/09/02/the-swiftfox-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-158 Kilz Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:08:22 +0000 http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=100#comment-158 The only problem is that Swiftfox is non free software. It has a restrictive license that takes one of the 4 main freedoms of free software away. Redistribution, you cant legally give a copy to anyone. Swiftfox doesn't add anything to Firefox like say Flock dose. In fact it disables disables things (pango) to speed up the start time. But it is able to take the compiled binaries and change the license to one that takes away freedom the original application gives. The person who compiles Swiftfox says its for "safety" but who is he that we should trust him? His actions prevent the application from being included in distros and repositories where others could look at the application and vouch for its safety. He could also publish an md5sum so the binaries could be checked. For me I will not use Swiftfox. I value freedom over the .12th of a second speed difference independent benchmarks have shown are the speed improvements. The only problem is that Swiftfox is non free software. It has a restrictive license that takes one of the 4 main freedoms of free software away. Redistribution, you cant legally give a copy to anyone.
Swiftfox doesn’t add anything to Firefox like say Flock dose. In fact it disables disables things (pango) to speed up the start time. But it is able to take the compiled binaries and change the license to one that takes away freedom the original application gives.
The person who compiles Swiftfox says its for “safety” but who is he that we should trust him? His actions prevent the application from being included in distros and repositories where others could look at the application and vouch for its safety. He could also publish an md5sum so the binaries could be checked.
For me I will not use Swiftfox. I value freedom over the .12th of a second speed difference independent benchmarks have shown are the speed improvements.

]]> http://www.linuxextremist.com/2006/09/02/the-swiftfox-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-132 The Swiftfox Experience » News around the World Sun, 03 Sep 2006 21:51:32 +0000 http://www.linuxextremist.com/?p=100#comment-132 [...] When I first tried Firefox on Linux, I thought to myself “Things simply don’t get better than this”. However, an optimised build of Firefox for Linux, called appropriately enough, Swiftfox, is by far the fastest and best browser I’ve ever used.read more | digg story [...] [...] When I first tried Firefox on Linux, I thought to myself “Things simply don’t get better than this”. However, an optimised build of Firefox for Linux, called appropriately enough, Swiftfox, is by far the fastest and best browser I’ve ever used.read more | digg story [...]

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