[rescue] Mozilla Firefox

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Apr 21 17:40:13 CDT 2004


On Apr 21, 2004, at 5:08 PM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>   Yes, I tried it recently too.  I'm running v0.8, and it *screams*.
>> I've tried it on a Sun Ultra60 (2x 360MHz/4MB, 768MB RAM), and a Sun
>> E3500 (4x 400MHz/4MB, 1GB RAM) displaying to a SunRay.
>
> There are some controls and other little features I really like in the
> Mozilla series.  Mainly it lacks a few per-site controls.  Lot's of
> nifty plugins though, some of which make up for the gaps.

   Life is a tradeoff.

> I like Firefox OK, but it still doesn't really solve the general
> problems of the browsers.
>
> I also can't figure out why people think it is so fast.  It must be
> because you guys are comparing it to older browsers.

   I'm comparing it to current releases of Mozilla on the same hardware.

        -Dave

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