Ian Davey wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, kris
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On my 64meg RAM, 400MHz Laptop, Mozilla is not usable, much patience
>> is needed when working with it, especially if other applics are open.
>
>
> I'm quite suprised at this, as I'm using it right now on a 233MHz 64MB desktop
> machine and it's quick and responsive. Not perfect yet, but far from
> unusable. I use it every day and it is my main browser (on NT4). My home
> machine is Linux with twice the spec, and I use Beonex on that as it takes
> too long to download the nightlies (though I do occasionally).
>
> Unless you're talking about Netscape 6 which is a bit more resource hungry.
The Mozilla nightlies are getting more resource hungry rather than
less, it seems :-( After yesterday's download, I discovered with some
dismay that it's already using 29Megs - without me having visited ANY
pages (orther than my local-disk based home page.) Granted, this
includes a started Java Plugin (which I didn't ask it to...it just
started doing that with the last nightly!) but still...just a week or
two ago, I remember checking the same thing and Mozilla "only" consumed
19Megs after initialization....and compare that with NS 4.75's 9Meg and
Opera 5.0's 6 Meg....you can see that things are, shall we say, a little
bloated :-)
I know that you can't judge much from nightlies as they include all
sorts of debugging info, but I would have thought that some progress
was being made - since M19 (which the nightlies presumably work towards)
is supposed to be all about performance enhancements, no?
Don't get me wrong: Mozilla is my main browser - because at work
I have plenty of memory on my NT box, but I avoid it at all cost on
my "measly" 64Meg portable (you simply can't run it and NetBeans -
another resource hog - together on 64Megs :-(
Tom
