Re[2]: Nautilus dogginess

[Silviu Cojocaru <silviucj yahoo com>]

Friday, April 27, 2001, 10:14:13 AM, Jens Finke wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Daniel Hauck wrote:

>> I have Nautilus is all its sluggish glory installed.  It's SLOW.  It's not
>> Nautilus's fault though... it seems someone made the decision to use Mozilla
>> instead of GTKhtml.  If I'm not mistaken, GTKhtml is faster if more
>> simplistic than Mozilla.  Mozilla simply is and always has been a slow dog.
>> Netscape 6 was based on Mozilla and it went over like a lead balloon.
>>
>> What makes the Nautilus team think that Nautilus based on Mozilla will go
>> over any better than Netscape based on Mozilla?
>>
>> Again, I must reinforce that it cannot be a performance problem with my
>> machine as it's loaded with very nice stuff under the hood.  That said, I
>> must say I still prefer to use and will continue to use GMC for my file
>> browsing.  It's simply faster and it works.

> Ok, what`s the deal here? You talk about all the badness of mozilla and
> then you say you just want to do file browsing? This has nothing to do
> with each other! Mozilla is only used by Nautilus if you enter a web URL,
> for internet browsing. You can also compile nautilus without the mozilla
> component.

Then it has absolutely no reason for it to be so slow, still it
is, isn't it ?


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