Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:12:56 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape story Message-ID: <20010228021256.A45150@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <20010223090144.A97454@lpt.ens.fr>; from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:01:44AM %2B0100 References: <20010221212930.A11954@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200102220606.XAA07799@usr05.primenet.com> <20010222125933.C19546@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20010222192520.A12511@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010223090144.A97454@lpt.ens.fr>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:01:44AM +0100, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Kris Kennaway said on Feb 22, 2001 at 19:25:20: > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:59:34PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: > > > > > kicks on and stays on. Maybe Mozilla is different from N6, I don't know. > > > > Mozilla is light-years ahead of NS 6.0 (haven't tried the new NS6, > > I've got no need to.) > > Mozilla has not crashed on me even once (versions 0.7 and 0.8 on > FreeBSD). I can't think of another browser I can say that about, > well maybe w3m (even lynx has crashed sometimes). But it is slow > -- on a PII-400 MHz with around 128 MB RAM, it still takes a while > to startup and often takes time to redraw the window, with some > very ugly-looking intermediate stages. I don't think it would be > usable on an older/slower machine. (The rendering engine is fast, > especially with tables where it doesn't wait for all images to be > downloaded first before displaying. It's the UI which seems to > bog it down.) I haven't tried the new NS6 and only briefly tried > the older one, so can't comment. I'm hoping it's extra debugging crap in the <1.0 releases. Recent versions certainly seem much faster than they used to be. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6nM8oWry0BWjoQKURAobkAJ9IP0c+xxmcanDcSh5+XFVlBlEU7ACgw0Kh dsbfrmD33KGZMNUtvUfpEQ8= =lhhk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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