On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Stephane Monlibert - Sun france - ES - Support Engineer wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Eduardo Trapani wrote: > > > > > > Both the stable Mozilla and the one at > > > pandora.debian.org/~robots101/mozilla run incredibly slow on my Sparc > > > Station 4m. Other X applications seem to run OK, but Mozilla just > > > crawls so that it seems it is not working. > > > > > > I always use a remote display, but for other applications that works > > > alright. > > > > > > Any ideas on that, is it happening to anybody else? I run Debian 2.2r3. > > > > > > Eduardo. > > > > Hi Eduardo, > > > > I think I know what you mean. My Mozilla behaves the same way. I > > couldn't find out yet what's the problem. Till now I thought it was me > > when I compiled X on my own, maybe I forgot to set an option or so (I > > didn't set any options). I tried other version of Mozilla, they're > > incredibly slow, too. > > My Mozilla is from mozilla.org, but there aren't any newer sparc > > packages anymore. I've got an Ultra1 running Debian/Woody pretty fine. > > > > Anyone a clue what's up here? > > > > > > Janine > > I've a Debian 2.2r3 on a U-5 270 MHz 380Mo RAM > I've install mozilla with apt-get (I don't known the version) > > Mozilla is slow, but same as netscape under solaris > > I can use mozilla via telnet > My Mozilla is not just slow. Image you click on something (not necessarily in the web, but also the task buttons). Then you _hear_ something is happening, but... then you have to wait about 30-60 seconds to _see_ what it's doing. That's not really usable... Janine -- My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely.
