mozilla being a pig

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 10 May 2006, Stuart Biggerstaff wrote:
> Opera, maybe?  It isn't open source, but they aren't charging for it any
> more, and it's fast.  And installing it won't interfere with Mozilla.
>
> Then for real speed, there's OffByOne.  It's really fast in Windows, but
> running in Linux under Wine it still seems faster than about anything
> else.  Of course you give up Java (even Javascript) and frames--kind of
> like version two of Netscape or IE.  And it fits on a floppy, not that that
> matters.

I think this comes down to my wife just being really set in her ways with
mozilla, and not wanting to change to firefox.  It took me forever to pry
her away from Netscape-4.x, and now she gives me dirty looks when i try to
convince her to go to firefox.


>
> At 02:34 PM 5/10/2006, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 10 May 2006, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 10 May 2006 11:09 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 10 May 2006, Michael Hipp wrote:
> > > > > It's been a while since I used Mozilla, but what you're describing I
> > > > > would categorize as "known behavior". The early versions of Firefox
> > > > > displayed the same problems, but the recent ones seem to have it fixed
> > > > > such that it happens only rarely almost not at all. Would have thought
> > > > > the commonality of codebase would have it fixed in Moz, what
> > version are
> > > > > you using?
> > > >
> > > > 1.7.13
> > > >
> > > > > This wasn't just a problem on the Linux version of Moz, but the W32
> > > > > version also.
> > > > >
> > > > > I seriously doubt it can be fixed outside of the source code.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, I suspected as much.  My wife just doesn't want to use firefox,
> > > > cause she claims its slow.
> > >
> > > Just do it. Move all her bookmarks/passwords/etc and uninstall mozilla.
> >
> >Trust me, i've been tempted.  BUt i have to live with her afterwards.
> >
> > >
> > > And I've never heard Fx referred to as /slower/ than Moz until just now...
> >
> >Nor I.  But she's convinced that its slower, and its hard to quantify
> >browser speed.
> >
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