Re: [Sheflug] Mozilla 0.9

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Jos? Luis G?mez Dans (j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hi,
> 	
> 	Since I am not hungry and therefore don't need to go home that
> early :-) I thought I'd give mozilla 0.9 a go. While I was at it, I also
> installed the latest galeon I could find.
> 
> 	Well, a couple of comments: mozilla is _much_ faster than
> previous incantations. Still, the memory usage is huge. However, it must
> be said that loading time is far shorter than what it was, and I'd say
> it compares to netscape's. That is good news.
> 
> 	The version of galeon was quite small and sleek. It's even got
> an installation wizard and all that. Someone mentioned the cool features
> of this thing, and they do have them indeed! However, it looks as if it
> eats up as much memory as mozilla does... This is rather unfortunate, I
> would say...
>

Well... galeon replaces the various amounts of memory used by XUL in
mozilla, with GNOME.... which although probably slightly better, isnt
much of an improvement.

Konqueror is fast, and relatively light although it seems to leak
various amounts of memory when viewing big images.

Or if theres skipstone (http://muhri.net/skipstone/) which uses gecko,
and gtk+ (slightly lighter than galeon, because of the lack of GNOME)


But, if I want to look at something quickly, or in many cases, just
because I prefer it. I've found myself using 
Links (http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/) not really
through any concious choice, and it wasnt until I started writing this,
that I realised how much I used it.  But its by far the best text based
browser I've seen. (supports frames, tables, colour, etc.)

<snip>


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