In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
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>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 :-)
That may be why then, I never run the Java plugin. It just eats too much
memory and I don't actually use any Java sites anyway. There are other's
available other than Sun's which may be less memory hungry.
>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?
They are being worked on but it takes time. Try subscribing to the
mozilla.performance group and you'll see that work is being done.
>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 :-(
Run it without Java :-)
ian.
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