Pontus Östlund » Firefox http://www.poppa.se/blog My blog about web development and such Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:38:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Firefox Domain-Swapper extension http://www.poppa.se/blog/firefox-domain-swapper/ http://www.poppa.se/blog/firefox-domain-swapper/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:41:01 +0000 Pontus http://www.poppa.se/blog/?p=195 Anybody working on a replicated web site (with an edit/backend server and one or more frontend servers) with perhaps lots of sub sites has probably experienced the hassle of switching domains between the backends and frontends.

Say you get an email saying: Can you change … to … on http://some-front-end.com/some/path/to/a/page.html. You click on the link, since you’r lazy, and then have to change the domain in the address bar to your backend domain and 40% of the time you misspell and have to go up there again and…

Anyhow! I got tired of this so I created a domain swapping extension to Firefox. It adds a context menu (right-click on any page) where you can choose to change to another domain – the URL will stay intact.

So if you are working with replicated sites the extension is free to download at:

http://www.tekniskaverken.se/fishnet…pper/index.xml

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So what am I talking about! I noticed when I started using Swiftfox – which is built on a Firefox 3 beta release – that it’s insanely faster than Firefox 2. And I really mean insanely faster. Of course, as I said before, Swiftfox is an “optimized build of Mozilla Firefox for Linux” but I have used Swiftfox built on Firefox 2 before and that one wasn’t close to as fast as this last one is.

I think the Firefox team must have done some wonders to the rendering engine. I must admit that Firefox always has been a bit slower on Linux than on Windows and Mac so I pleased that Firefox 3 seems to be fastest browser ever known to mankind ;)

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