On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:03:56 -0600, Jared Breland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Don't know about ya'll, but it's still rediculously slow on my computer (PIII-500, >384MB RAM) and >I'm using 0.9.7. EVERYTHING is slow about it, which is why I continue to use >Netscape 4.79. I'm >all for Mozilla, but until I can run it on my computer (and my computer should >certianly have enough >muscle to browse the internet) without very a noticable slowdown, I'm simply not >going to waste my >time (and I mean that literally) running it. > >Just as an aside, I do run it under Linux on multiple boxes, but it's still >rediculously slow and >bloated-feeling. The only reason I do is because it's the best available for Linux, >in my opinion >(NS 4.x really sucks in Linux). > Last Sunday I used a 1GHz machine running XP with IE and OE and 128MB RAM. My machine is a Celeron 333 with 384 MB RAM, Win 98 with IE removed and Mozilla 0.9.7+ installed. I could not discern any appreciably difference in the rendering speed or the retrieval speed on either machine. I still consider IE to be clumsy but speedwise it was no quicker than my machine with Mozilla. My TSR's do include an always running seti@home module which doesn't seem to interfere with the perceived speed at all. You people who consider something slow should perhaps consider that it may be something else that is slowing things down. Perhaps your Hard Disk Access or even your Gee Whiz Video card that has so much RAM that it's a second computer. Your BIOS settings can affect the discerned speed as can the number of TSR's that you have inadvertently left running. Your virus checker takes a lot of time slices for a start. Turn that off and then check your perceived forward/backward speed. I'll bet it improves dramatically. The faster the processor the faster we expect things to happen completely forgetting that the processor now spends so much time waiting that it could be doing many other useful things. In fact most of the fancy graphics (read junk) that come off the net are rendered quite happily on a '486 in about the same amount of time as a 2 GHz Pentium IV.
