On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:01:37AM +0000, Steven C. Darnold wrote: > Howard Eisenberger wrote: > > > I now have Opera on my test PC (P133 16mg ram) and it > > seems to run about the same as Netscape 4.73, > > I've been running Opera on my 486-66 with 16mb RAM. It > takes forever to load, but once it's there it performs OK. > With nested tables, in particular, it is very fast. When > Netscape 3.04 does a complex table, it thrashes the CPU > at 100% for several seconds. There's one page I visit often > that takes ten seconds of thrashing (after it has fully > downloaded). That's with Netscape 3.04 running on a P166 > with 64mb RAM. Opera (running on a 486-66 with 16mb RAM) > takes just four seconds to fully resolve that same page.
I ran Netscape 4.77 on my P166 with with 64mg ram and don't recall anything quite like that. Maybe I'm not testing the right pages. I'll keep using both (Netscape 4.3 from Slack 7.1 and Opera) on my test box and see what happens. > There's a lot to like about Opera. Perhaps, but aren't we getting a bit ahead of ourselves? Isn't this something that people can play around with after they have installed BL? Howard E. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
