----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl J. Runge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:23 PM
Subject: mozilla / netscape 6.01 sluggish?
>
> Hello,
>
> I decided to get out of my netscape 4.x rut, and today I installed and
> played around with both netscape 6.01 and mozilla 0.9.1.
>
> I find both of them to be badly sluggish.
I haven't tried Mozilla, but I have a P-166 with 148 MB that I currently run
Linux on, and I have found all of the following to be unacceptably sluggish:
KDE 2.x
Gnome
Netscape 6
Opera (Don't recall the version, but I played with it about 6-9 months ago.
For this machine, I find Windowmaker with GTK+ to be sufficiently fast (GTK+
allows me to run some Gnome apps on WM...MUCH faster than in a Gnome
environment.)
> Even clicking forward and
> backward through some image files on the local system it is really
> annoying. Between 0.5 - 1.0 seconds to map the image (even if it has
> already been loaded by the browser). It vaguely reminds me of Xemacs on
> a slow machine sifting through reams of lisp between context
> switches... Similar sluggishness occurs with regular pages. Using
> netscape 4.6 and 4.7 the response is pretty snappy (at least no
> pregnant pauses are noticable).
>
> I thought mozilla / netscape 6 was suppose to be faster with gecko,
> (etc)? Maybe for different kinds of rendering?
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Even doing a cover-up and then re-expose of
> the browser window has a noticable delay.
Yep. See above. I haven't tried 6.01. But 6.0 was very sluggish (when it
worked at all.)
>
> FWIW the machine is 2 cpu PPro 200, 196 MB of ram, 2.2 kernel. I
> haven't seen this sluggishness with other apps, even staroffice is more
> or less OK.
I have tolerated some sluggishness, just because it's a P-166, and I
remember when I ran Windows 95 on this machine it was pretty slow too. Plus,
I just dismantled my 486 DX-4/120 that I ran KDE 1.1 on and compared to
that, the Pentium was pretty snappy! :o)
<gloat>
Anyway, I decided that to do Linux some justice, and to induce me to work
more with it, I'm building a brand new dual PIII 1000 EB with 384 megs and
dual 46 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM ATA-100 drives in a RAID-0 configuration. It will
be fun to play with the RAID controller and the 2.4 SMP kernel (I also plan
to build another RT-Linux kernel to play with porting some VAX stuff to
Linux on x86. The RT-Linux will hopefully fulfill the real-time requirements
of the system that the VAX currently provides.)
</gloat>
Rich Cloutier
SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES
www.sysupport.com
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