[geeks] WTF - Linux on a laptop...

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:55:43PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:18:02PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I'm running RH Linux 8 on a PII laptop, and with *only* 256 Meg of RAM,
> > the Mozilla browser seems to use about 110% of available RAM... WTF is
> > this thing doing with all that RAM?
> 
> Try FireFox instead of Mozilla.  Much less bloat.

True, but the downside of that is, at the moment Firefox 0.8 appears to
be very usable on Windows but not ready for prime time on Linux.  On my
machine at least (Athlon XP1800+ with half a gig of DDR333 RAM running a
Slackware-based custom install), Firefox becomes unresponsive (and the
mouse becomes unresponsive when in Firefox's window) for up to about 30
seconds when loading URLs.


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