[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

[Brian Dunbar]

On Apr 21, 2004, at 9:30 AM, Caleb Shay wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:07, Torquil MacCorkle, III wrote:
>> I just installed 'Mozilla Firefox' from pkgsrc.  It is *amazing*.  
>> Finally a
>> Mozilla browser that didn't make me feel a sudden need to upgrade my
>> computer.  So lightweight, doesn't feel as bloated as the old 
>> Mozillas.  I
>> love it.  (Although I have only been using it for like 15 minutes... 
>> I am
>> probably being hasty.)
>>
>> Hell, I am being hasty.
>
> I'd have to agree with you that it is nice and fast and lightweight.  A
> quick comparison from top on my ...(furtively looks to see if Dave is
> around)... AMD64 Linux box shows me:
>
>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>
> 26074 caleb     15   0  194m  35m 140m S  0.0  3.5   0:00.78 
> mozilla-bin
> 26116 caleb     16   0 37044  19m  21m S  0.0  1.9   0:00.72 
> firefox-bin
>
> That's a HUGE difference in resource consumption.
>

Just for grins I fired up IE on my mac ....

  PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  
VSIZE
556 Internet E   2.6%  0:13.75   6    90   157  4.23M  19.2M  12.5M   
138M
<snip>
497 Safari       0.0%  0:04.17   5   103   181  3.73M  15.0M  9.81M   
127M
<snip>
361 firefox-bi   1.2% 39:34.10  10   200   559  79.8M  40.6M   102M   
425M

IE isn't _doing_ anything yet the %CPU value is jumping between 0% to 4%

~brian