Firebird -> Firefox

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:09:34 -0800
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:10:28 -0700
> >Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>If anything, firefox is slower than firebird on my machine.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Gee. I was just going to suggest that firefox is faster than firebird
> >0.61 for me. I am using the GTK (not GTK2/XFT) version in both cases.
> >Hard to tell, really.
> >
> >  
> >
> I was using firebird 0.7 and firefox seems quicker. I have the
> gtk2/xft version on ln2.8.1 upgraded.
> 

The question is: do you have lots of memory? I'm under 256M (with some
set aside for the video card).  I got the same report for kde 3.2: wow,
this is fast, but I saw no improvement.  Make's me think I'm just below
the amount of available memory to see any speed improvements.

-- 
Collins - Denver Area - 
Gentoo stable kernel 2.6.2-rc1