Re: browser

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

If you have GtkHTML, try thier testgtkhtml proggie, fast and nice - simple html
only though.

Maher

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:25:26 -0500, Matthew said:

> 
>  Here's a snapshot from `top` that I just took.	This is typical of
netscape,
>  and it keeps getting worse the longer it lives.
>  
>  16174 matthew	 2   0 26920  26M  8516 S	0  0.0 21.0   2:54
>  netscape-com
>  
>  That's 21% of my 128M, with a VM size of 26M.  Add that to my applet and
>  panel 
>  fetishes and you're talking about some real memory.	Pretty soon I'll have
>  to
>  restart netscape or it will get out of control.  Mozilla is worse.  Maybe
>  it's
>  the debugging code, but I doubt it.	Netscape has behaved like this since I
>  started using Linux, 3 or 4 years ago.	Granted, I haven't tried the
latest
>  Milestone because I didn't see any resource improvements between the
>  previous
>  two.  Is it better?	Head to Slashdot and reload three times after the page
>  loads completely.  Then check top and see what the usage is.
>  
>  Matthew
>  
>  On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, you wrote:
>  > "Matthew <matthew@advantio.com>" wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Mozilla's still a little clunky/crashy, and
>  > > feels like a 200 lb weight on your desktop.  Eats memory like you
>  wouldn't
>  > > believe.  
>  > 
>  > Really?  Mozilla seems to fly due to it's more efficient display 
>  > engine and threading; I'll wait till the debugging code is removed 
>  > and the optimizations inserted before passing judgement on it's 20% 
>  > memory consumption.  Netscape 4.73 eats up about 7% of my 128MB of 
>  > RAM for every open window, which can add up quickly; also, it's 
>  > fingertapping-slow.
>  > 
>  > Sourav Mandal
>  > 
>  > ------------------------------------------------------------
>  > Sourav K. Mandal
>  > 
>  > Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>  > Department of Physics
>  > http://web.mit.edu/smandal/www/
>  > 
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>  > efflorescence of language. We must be simple, 
>  > precise, terse."
>  > 
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>  > 
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