[rescue] Punch the Monkey (was: SS2 memory?)

[Harri Haataja]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:29:39AM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 01:12:10 (-0500), James Sharp wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] Punch the Monkey (was: SS2 memory?)
> 
> > And quite franky, Mozilla SUCKS on every machine I've run it on.  Its
> > bloated and its slow.
> It's a heck of a lot faster and smoother to use than Nutscrape 4.x is.

Indeed. The old versions maybe not so.

> > From anything to a 466Mhz DS10 to a 1.4GHZ Athlon to a 195Mhz R10K
> > machine, its been unusably slow.
> 
> Although normally I would say that you should try to remember to use
> separate CPUs for your Xserver and your X11 clients, I will also note
> that one of my colleagues runs it happily on a P-II 400MHz machine with
> only 128 MB of RAM, and in conjunction with the Xserver (i.e. right on
> his workstation).

I use galeon, which glues quite bearable and not totally
ripped_from_$ORIFICE GUI on top of gecko. It runs very nicely on
Piii at 533 256M, K6-2 at 333 128M (both local display and over 10b-2 to CG3
:^) and Cel400 128M.
It does require gnome but these machines have it already for someone so
its not a problem. I hear Stepstone just uses Gtk but not Gnome, though.
That might also be worth a look.

A few nice things in it are the disable Java, Javascript and popups
settings right there in the menu, well working tabs and "block images
from" in <img> context menu. Of course you can't filter out ads that
come from the main site with that, but quite many don't.
I suppose even the fullscreen mode might be handy in some situation.

Over all, the nicest graphical browser I've ever used. Also pretty much
the only one with a sane GUI (well, Opera is ok from user perspective.
Qt is ****...).

But all browsers suck. Even as much as all software sucks, graphical
html renderers are all horrible bloat if they try to be capable of
anything.

-- 
Except that his file won't have the pretty little thumbnail that he gets
on the Mac. He'll get the dogeared-piece-of-paper icon on that file, and
sit there waving his flippers like a thalidomide baby until you show him
that yes, Photoshop will still open the file.	-- Charles Gimon