I was surprised after read what some say scandalaous. According to Tux Radar's benchmark of same version Firefox on their respective platforms : Firefox for Windows is faster than Linux Firefox, and not just that. Tux Radar found that Firefox For Windows runs on Ubuntu with Wine is faster than Linux Window! Wow.
I was tempted to talk about conspiracy but I decided NO, let's see it from the bright side.
We got nothing to lose.
And by the way you could use same profile of your native Firefox, by editing the profile.ini file which is located at :
Point it to your native Firefox profile.
More about sharing/use same Firefox profile in Windows/Linux/Wine on next post, if someone request it though.
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I was tempted to talk about conspiracy but I decided NO, let's see it from the bright side.
- Wine is Free
- Firefox for Windows is Free (too) and easier to update (last time I checked, Firefox 3.0.6 is only available at Ubuntu 9.04 repository) and you must edit the repository to include that).
- some addons only works for Windows Firefox.
We got nothing to lose.
And by the way you could use same profile of your native Firefox, by editing the profile.ini file which is located at :
"$HOME/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/USERNAME/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles"
Point it to your native Firefox profile.
More about sharing/use same Firefox profile in Windows/Linux/Wine on next post, if someone request it though.
Via :Benchmark news via Tux Radar
keyword : firefox | ubuntu | windows | vs | firefox profile in wine
Have you try Swiftfox (getswiftfox.com)?