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

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Fri Feb 27 09:20:58 CST 2004


On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 09:30:35AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 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.

Exact opposite of that here- I'm even running through a SSH tunnel to
tinyproxy on ohno.mrbill.net, and it's speedyfast.

Bill (1Ghz TBird AMD, 256M, Fedora Core 1)

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bill bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
austin, texas



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