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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:33:32 +0100
From:      Harald Arnesen <gurre@start.no>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
Cc:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape multitasking less smoothly?
Message-ID:  <87g07fu8vn.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011115165004.GD2447@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> (The Anarcat's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2001 11:50:05 -0500")
References:  <87y9l8npaj.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.com> <200111151607.fAFG7L373083@gits.dyndns.org> <20011115165004.GD2447@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org>

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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.
-- 
Hilsen Harald.

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