Swiftweasel -- best of both worlds?

I just downloaded (via aur) the swiftweael package. Now this includes both icecat's (formerly iceweasel) and swiftfox's improvements. How cool! Comments?

I currently use swiftfox, and I like it a lot, both because it at least _feels_ faster, and also because "Bon Echo" is just too ugly to live, both the name and the logo. Okay, I know that I could use firefox-branded from the AUR*, or just do some sed and cp to change these things, but that's also ugly (Why don't we make an Arch branded firefox, with a nice name ("Archfox" ) and a nice logo?)
I am (very slowly...) looking for a replacement for swiftfox, both due to the swiftfox licensing and also since the, er, swiftfox developer sometimes is too slow with updates for my taste. I found swiftweasel some month(s?) ago, and had a look at it. At the time the swiftweasel-pentium-4 and swiftweasel-pentium-m (these are the ones I would use) were orphaned and stranded at version 2.0.0.7. These PKGBUILDs do some really odd stuff to the start script, the $HOME/.mozilla/firefox settings are copied to a swiftweasel specific directory, so that firefox and swiftweasel have separate settings. Seems pretty useless IMO. The two swiftweasel builds that are up to date, swiftweasel-athlon-xp and swiftweasel-pentium-3 don't do this, so it wouldn't take much work to copy those PKGBUILDs and use them (I think, anyway...). gothicknight, who maintains some of the swiftfox PKGBUILDs, adopted some of the orphaned swiftweasel PKGBUILDs some time ago (including those I would use if they were up to date), and I'm eagerly waiting for some news there But, until then I'll continue to use swiftfox.
* I _have_ used it when swiftfox lagged with a security update for some week(s), but even I feel that a nice name and logo is only worth so much compilation time
Last edited by Bebo (2007-12-30 21:10:18)

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