Swiftweasel

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Swiftweasel
Swiftweasel-3.png
Developer(s) SticKK
Stable release 3.5.5 / November 23, 2009 (2009-11-23)
Operating system Linux
Type Web browser
License Mozilla Public License 1.1
Website Swiftweasel Project

Swiftweasel is a build of Mozilla Firefox source code, which uses non-trademarked graphics and logos. It is optimized for several architectures, and is available for the Linux platform only.

Released under the terms of the Mozilla Public License, Swiftweasel is free and open source software.

Optimization

Swiftweasel is optimized using the following methods:

P.G.O.

As of the 3.0.3 release, Swiftweasel has shifted its primary optimization from processor specific to profile-guided optimization (PGO).[1] It is a two step building process. The application is compiled one time and then run to produce a profile. The profile is then used to guide a second compilation of the application. Some of the older optimizations are still used, but there are now only Intel and AMD versions of each build. It is released compiled in a tar.gz package. There are also separate installers for Ubuntu and Arch linux available through their communities.

Binary code optimization

Increased Security

  • Better protection from Buffer overflow attacks[6] (Swiftweasel 2.0 uses -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2; Firefox 2.0 uses gcc 3.x, which does not support this).[5]

Simplify

Installed extensions

Swiftweasel has several extensions installed by default.[7]

Swiftweasel-specific changes

Changes made to Swiftweasel include:

  • The default icon set has been replaced with the Kempelton[10] icon set.
  • Swiftweasel uses its own settings directory. The settings, including bookmarks, history, and extensions are imported from Mozilla Firefox the first time Swiftweasel runs.
  • Plugins stored in /lib/mozilla/plugins and /lib/Firefox/plugins are detected and used by Swiftweasel.

Swiftdove

Swiftdove
Developer(s) SticKK
Stable release 2.0.0.22 / July 30, 2009 (2009-07-30)
Operating system Linux
Type Email client
License Mozilla Public License 1.1
Website Swiftweasel Project

The Swiftweasel project also builds optimized 32 and 64bit builds of the Thunderbird email client known as Swiftdove.

Optimizations

As of the current version 2.0.0.21 Swiftdove is also PGO optimized.

Plugins

The 2.0.0.21 builds of Swiftdove include the 0.9 Lightning calendar plugin installed by default.

See also

References

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  2. Use the in-browser about:buildconfig URL to check the details of all builds
  3. Use the in-browser about:buildconfig URL to check the details of 2.0 builds
  4. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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  8. User Agent Switcher
  9. Quick Locale Switcher
  10. Kempelton

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