Adam Theo wrote: > hello, all. > > > is it possibly because i am using a slow processor that this problem > is occurring? see below for the problem again. Well, the minimum processor requirement for Mozilla is a Pentium-233. You say you have a "Cyrix 166", which I'm guessing is the Cyrix 6x86 P166+. This is really a 133Mhz processor with a few architectural advantages over the Pentiums of the day, and optimised so that it performs as well as a Pentium 166 on certain Windows benchmarks. Outside of Windows benchmarks (which aren't much of a help when you're running Linux) it's closer to the speed of a Pentium 150 in general, and a Pentium 90 in floating-point operations. So you're already about 35% CPU power behind the minimum. I'm writing this in the June 15th nightly build on an AMD K6-300 (RedHat 7). The composer has some noticeable delays, and for that reason I'd not recommend it because it does jar a bit to watch the text having to catch up with your typing. That said, it _does_ catch up and I'm a pretty fast typer. I certainly don't see the cumulative effect you're talking about. HTML form textareas don't have any typing delay at all, and this was editing a textarea containing more text than this usenet post. Charles Miller
