Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 10:03:21PM -0400, christenpet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks to everyone who helped out with this. I tried vmstat 5 and found that in the last 8 lines it reported as Mozilla was starting the SIs and SOs ranged from 100 to 300. So I definitely need to get more

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-04 Thread Chris Cothrun
Hi, I didn't see anyone else weigh in with quite my opinion so I thought I'd throw it in. What could be happening here? I think I may be ready to buy a set of 2.2 disks because from a beginner's viewpoint it seems that successfully upgrading the OS to 2.2 was probably too much to expect.

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-04 Thread christenpet
Thanks to everyone who helped out with this. I tried vmstat 5 and found that in the last 8 lines it reported as Mozilla was starting the SIs and SOs ranged from 100 to 300. So I definitely need to get more memory for my machine! One other thing: If I wanted to try Galeon how would I install

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread xio
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On 32 MB of RAM, you're going to start running deep into virtual memory because of Mozilla's big footprint.

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Frank Zimmermann
Simon Law wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: Anyway, I thought I would post this question here just in case it's an obvious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a new set of disks. By the way, my computer is a Pentium 200 MHz, with 32 MB of RAM. Is

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Oct 2001, Frank Zimmermann wrote: Simon Law wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: Anyway, I thought I would post this question here just in case it's an obvious, easily fixed problem. Otherwise, I'll just re-install from a new set of disks. By the way, my computer

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Jussi Ekholm
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:37:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Don't really get on with Opera myself. I always seem to come back to Netscape in the end, with all its faults. The 4.7 versions seem to crash less often than earlier ones. What about Konqueror, have you tried it? For me,

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Oct 2001, Jussi Ekholm wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:37:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Don't really get on with Opera myself. I always seem to come back to Netscape in the end, with all its faults. The 4.7 versions seem to crash less often than earlier ones. What about

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:18:22PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 03 Oct 2001, Jussi Ekholm wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 10:37:06AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Don't really get on with Opera myself. I always seem to come back to Netscape in the end, with all its faults. The 4.7

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Hall Stevenson
One limitation I have is that my bank won't accept anything but Netscape. I like galeon ... you can configure the Agent string galeon presents to the server. I subscribe to some mozilla-related lists and according to many posts, you can't 'trick' *all* web servers. Some can see past the

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Jussi Ekholm
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No; people have recommended Konqueror but I found that it wanted to install all kinds of stuff connected with KDE which I don't want on my machine; I like icewm (keep it simple). That is true. Still, I use fvwm and run Konqueror. It installs KDE

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 08:58:11AM +0100, xio ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: Oh my. You're going to get a lot of responses telling you to upgrade; but my guess is that you're problems stems from low RAM. On 32 MB of RAM, you're going to

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Peter Christensen: I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, to move from 2.1 to 2.2r3, then did an apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19, based on a recommendation from this mailing list. My problem now is that when I start Mozilla it takes 50 to 60 seconds before the application appears

RE: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Chapman, Matt
Title: RE: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3? If it were me I would change to woody in my sources.list then apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. Then do a apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.x whatever is the newest one. I am running the latest kernel images on i386 and

Re: Mozilla is so slow! Problem with my upgrade to 2.2r3?

2001-10-02 Thread Simon Law
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Peter Christensen wrote: I did an apt-get dist-upgrade, to move from 2.1 to 2.2r3, then did an apt-get install kernel-image-2.2.19, based on a recommendation from this mailing list. My problem now is that when I start Mozilla it takes 50 to 60 seconds before the