On 8/7/07, Eero Tamminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: > > The prominence of the Xubuntu help on the desktop is an issue. However, > > the issue we are trying to address is that people do not want to view > > documentation in Firefox because it takes too long to load. If they > > already have firefox open, it isn't as bad but I can imagine there will > > be times when a user wants help on a topic that does not involve the > > internet/web-browser and as a consequence simply do not have firefox > > open. > > If Firefox is already open, starting something like Yelp is definately > slower than opening a new window in Firefox for the help page and as it's > a new UI process, it most likely takes more memory from the system too. > Most users have browser open all the time.
Could you please provide some hard evidence to support this. > In these cases, the wait time is simply unbearable on lower-end > > systems. Often users are unaware that they are launching firefox > > and are confused by the immediate performance hit they feel. > > This is a UI feedback issue. I'm (sometimes) using Epiphany on P166 > (Epiphany is slightly faster to start and uses slightly less memory than > Firefox) with IceWM and because it has a CPU meter, there's feedback > that something actually happening (besides modem noise :-)) when it's > launched. > > > - Eero > -- Firefox (www.getfirefox.com) -- A browser you can trust
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