[Usability] Re: Epiphany

[Leonardo Santagada <santagada gmail com>]

Maybe it was just me, or maybe it was the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
emerge world that was making the computer unstable (performance wise)
but I thought that firefox was rendering the same pages faster (no
cache involved, it was opening google.com which I have already opened
in the two browsers). I have an athlon 3.0 ghz 512 ram gento and
neither firefox nor ephi were prelinked (maybe firefox, but I don't
remember)


On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:22:42 -0400, Ricardo Veguilla
<veguilla hpcf upr edu> wrote:
> Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:49:50 +0200 (CEST), Reinout van Schouwen
> ><reinout cs vu nl> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Hi Leonardo,
> >>
> >>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I really think ephy is a better browser for gnome than firefox, but it
> >>>still have a lot of room for improuvement, here is my take on it:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>am I correct in thinking that you sent this to me personally? In that
> >>case I will reply off list too.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I am sorry, I meant to send to the list but I never know if it is the
> >kind that you have to reply all or not
> >
> >
> >>>       * Noticeably slower than firefox: You can search the web for
> >>>         benchmarks
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You are making the assertion, why don't you search for benchmarks? :-)
> >>Anyhow, Ephy is based on the exact same codebase as Mozilla/Firefox so
> >>I wonder what part of it would be slow and why.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >I saw some benchmarks and couldn't believe, then I used and it is
> >noticeably slower.
> >
> 
> For what is worth, I'm running Fedora Rawhide on a Pentium II 450 Mhz
> with 386 MB ram. I noticed that early versions of epiphany (1.0.x) where
> considerably slower than galeon (opening new windows, filing and
> managing bookmarks).  I've used firefox both on windows and on linux and
> firefox is considerably slower on linux (in my experience). I still find
> Epiphany a little slower than galeon, but noticeabbly faster than firefox.
> 
> I'm talking mainly about the GUI aspects of the program (start up,
> opening new windows, tabs, opening the preferences/options).
> 
> Regards,
> Ricardo Veguilla
> 
> 


-- 
Leonardo Santagada

"But hey, the fact that I have better taste than anybody else in the
universe is just something I have to live with. It's not easy being
me."
-- Linus Torvalds.