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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2001 19:26:42 +0000
From:      j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
To:        Harald Arnesen <gurre@start.no>
Cc:        Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>, Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape multitasking less smoothly?
Message-ID:  <20011128192642.A70805@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
In-Reply-To: <87g07fu8vn.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.com>; from gurre@start.no on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:33:32PM %2B0100
References:  <87y9l8npaj.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.com> <200111151607.fAFG7L373083@gits.dyndns.org> <20011115165004.GD2447@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <87g07fu8vn.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.com>

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 08:33:32PM +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote:
| The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> writes:
| 
| > First, any Moz-derivate is too much bloat for anything under a P300 w/
| > 64Mb RAM. 128M helps. 
| >
| > That's simply sick. This is just a *web browser*, people, why is it so
| > bloated?
| >
| > Also, Galeon uses the fixed-point fonts on my machine. When I tell him
| > to use the true-type one, it *forgets* on the next session.
| 
| Well, I haven't used Galeon on FreeBSD (I use Linux on my
| workstations, FreeBSD on my servers), but Galeon doesn't seem bloated
| on my laptop (Pentium 10, 40MB).
| 
| Mozilla is indeed bloated, but the Gecko HTML engine is good. This is
| what Galeon uses.

Well, i'm installing Galeon now, which installs Mozilla AND Gnome.  So
much for less bloat.


jm
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