On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 09:34:27 UTC [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ralph 
Cohen) wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Sep 2002 03:58:17 UTC, Michael Kaply 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > This was a design change made to turbo to save memory.
> >  
> > See earlier discussions.
> >  
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> I just looked at the earlier discussion (8/14/02) but I don't see any 
> strong push to make the change.  In fact, the only people who seem 
> ambivalent or supportive of the change were people who said that they 
> didn't use -turbo in the first place.  Those using it correctly 
> pointed out that unloading and then reloading Mozilla when the last 
> window closes defeats the whole purpose of the -turbo setting.  I can 
> get that exact same behavior by not using -turbo at all.
> 
> Turbo made Mozilla usable on my PIII-450 by getting around the long 
> load times.  It meant that I could put a -turbo session in my startup 
> folder and have instant access to Mozilla whenever I wanted. The way 
> works now, however, I've got to stop and check each time I close a 
> Mozilla window to make sure it's not the last window open so that I 
> don't accidentally kill the -turbo session and then be forced to 
> suffer through the drain on system resources and time while it reloads
> itself.  Like I said, I may as well not use it at all.
> 
> Please change it back or at least give us a switch so that we can turn
> off this this new "feature".  If I feel that Mozilla is eating memory 
> then I can kill the turbo session myself or choose not to use it.  
> Right now, there isn't any real choice.

Well said.  In fact, this turbo reload action makes turbo essentially 
unusable.

-- 
Will Honea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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