Firebird -> Firefox

[Ken Moffat]

Collins Richey wrote:

>On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:09:34 -0800
>Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:
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>>Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:10:28 -0700
>>>Collins Richey <erichey2 at comcast.net> wrote:
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>>>>If anything, firefox is slower than firebird on my machine.
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>>>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.
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>>I was using firebird 0.7 and firefox seems quicker. I have the
>>gtk2/xft version on ln2.8.1 upgraded.
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>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.
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I have 256 megs, plus nVidia geforce 64 meg card, using nvidia drivers. 
(not nv)

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Ken