Firebird -> Firefox

[Collins Richey]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:22:51 -0800
Ken Moffat <kmoffat at drizzle.com> wrote:

> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> >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:
> >>>
> >>> 
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> >>>      
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> >>>>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.
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
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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.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> I have 256 megs, plus nVidia geforce 64 meg card, using nvidia
> drivers. (not nv)
> 

Ich sehe und ich staune! (I am amazed.)

I can't explain this phenomenon, but I get no speed difference with
firefox or kde 3.2.

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