I find Firefox and Opera both open quickly-around 10 seconds.......well Opera is bit faster and reopened 4 tabs too...so if Firefox is Javascript and D2006 (Win32) is native win32 code and takes 2 minutes to open....hmmm interesting eh!!??
I tried the fast loader recommended earlier here and it actually slowed it down, so I removed it. I am sure Borland could do something to improve the time taken loading all the bits and pieces, and also to stop the gradual creep of BDS using more and more memory over a few hours, which means quitting and waiting another minute for it to close and another 2 minutes to open....for a native compiled app it has to be the slowest starting and stopping program around...I am guessing that behind the scenes it is a whole lot of loosely tied together pieces..... (We are getting off-topic here...) In a way I feel sorry for Opera - it's the best looking browser, most standard, provides more of the screen for a website that any of the others (Ie7, FF), and lots of really slick UI feaures-worth studying to see a lot of the great ways they eliminate inactive stuff from the screen. The Opera transparent analogue clock widget is real cool too. But I prefer a completely vanilla Firefox (no extensions)......why? Only a couple of silly little things....Firefox is quicker to open a long list of bookmarks (you can press the first letter of a bookmark to jump to it), and Operas tabs work a bit differently....ie going CTRL/Tab is more like Windows Alt/Tab in that it swaps between the most recent ones.... Oh and FFv2 has spell checker (now that is a killer feature in a browser!). So that's the reason I wrote my own (Delphi) analog clock widget (The Opera one does not run unless the browser is running). John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob van der Linde Sent: Friday, 11 August 2006 12:28 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi on Linux Actually, when I said that (no kidding) part, I was actually praising Firefox on how good it's Gecko engine really is, I was not trying to put it down at all, I meant that Firefox is actually very fast considering it is written in Javascript, I think they have done a wonderful job. I fully realise how difficult it is to write a cross platform engine like that and have the highest respect towards Mozilla. Actually, that's note quite why Firefox is slower to load than IE. You need to remember that IE is built into Windows and it actually starts when Windows starts. I have once ready that if you take IE out of the Windows shell (I am not sure if you can still do this), then IE will actually take much longer to load, so we have to be fair here. Firefox actually only takes a long time to start on first load. I have a gig of ram, and second load it starts much faster. A P4 or Athlon optimised build can help lots too. But if it's fast startup time you want, check out Opera, it's another great browser, fully standards compliant too, and free, it starts up quicker than Firefox though, but it just isn't me, a lot of people like it however. On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 11:53 +1200, Phil Scadden wrote: > > Firefox and Thunderbird are written in Javascript (no kidding), and > > the UI is done with XUL. The whole thing simply runs on an "engine" > > called Gecko, which handles (X)HTML, XUL, CSS, Javascript, etc. > > Oh, that why it is such a dog to load. Could be worse - Oracle's java > clients are a great for illustrating why you want compiled > executables. > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences 764 > Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand Ph +64 3 > 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232 > > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list > [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi __________ NOD32 1.1461 (20060329) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
