On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 18:08:42 -0000, "Ross Evans"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I get accused of simply flaming, without in any way backing up my complaints
>about mozilla. I thought I would turn the tables a bit.
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>Is there *anyone* here that believes mozilla will ever find it's way on any
>on the following
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>1> Old systems with limited memory and early pentium cpu's
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The aim was to be able to run on 32MB systems, I'm using Mozilla
(browser) on an K6-333 32MB Win98. Now that there are plans to run on
embedded systems, I believe that it could soon run on 16MB systems (or
less?).
>2> Embedded systems with limited memory and not particularly powerful cpu's
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There are plans for this, lots of efforts are going into getting
Mozilla to loose weight and cut down on its diet right now.
>3> Desktop pc's running windows, given that IE is so dominant on it's native
>platform, and that windows loads a lot of IE libs during start-up. Will
>people essentially run something on top of all that when X% of resources
>have been used to set-up IE for quick execution.
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I would, there are lots of things Mozilla can do that IE cannot. When
Mozilla's startup speed improves, I don't think this would be so much
of a concern. Worst to worst, we could create a loader so that Mozilla
only needs to load once.
>4>Desktop pc's running linux now that konqueror is coming along so well, and
>the fact that the linux port is *still* a mess full of nasty hacks that slow
>everything down even more.
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There were efforts in this area a while back, not sure about now as I
haven't been following Mozilla's program on linux or unix in general.
You must know that Mozilla has features that konqueror doesn't. So it
might not be the top choice, but there are still quite a number of us
who will use it.
>5> Other OSes given that the mozilla ports for them are a mess and in may
>cases unlikely to ever produce a usable application
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Where did you get this info? Mozilla is running great on many Unix
systems, not to mention Mac PPC and OS/2. There are some that are in a
mess as you say, some have even been abandoned ( even before the first
patch was submitted like Doszilla ). Some like Bezilla, have slowed
down abit, but they are still making progress.
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