Frank Lanitz | 1 Jan 2009 01:13
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Re: memory problem

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:41:49 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty <at> vianet.ca> wrote:

> Note also that the description of iceweasel is that it is lightweight.

Well, I think this can be removed since Iceweasel/Firefox isn't
lightweight anymore. 

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Frank
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lostson | 1 Jan 2009 01:22
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Re: memory problem

On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 01:13 +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:41:49 -0500
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty <at> vianet.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Note also that the description of iceweasel is that it is lightweight.
> 
> Well, I think this can be removed since Iceweasel/Firefox isn't
> lightweight anymore. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Frank

 I hate to butt in but do you see better behavior and performance from
say epiphany or galeon or some other browser ?

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Douglas A. Tutty | 1 Jan 2009 01:29
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Re: memory problem

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 06:22:29PM -0600, lostson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 01:13 +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:41:49 -0500
> > "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty <at> vianet.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Note also that the description of iceweasel is that it is lightweight.
> > 
> > Well, I think this can be removed since Iceweasel/Firefox isn't
> > lightweight anymore. 
> 
>  I hate to butt in but do you see better behavior and performance from
> say epiphany or galeon or some other browser ?

Konqueror.  Surprised me a lot.  Sure it uses resources, but it doesn't
seem to leak them.

I only use Iceweasel for sites that don't work with Konq.

Doug.

Frank Lanitz | 1 Jan 2009 01:28
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Re: memory problem

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:22:29 -0600
lostson <lostson <at> lostsonsvault.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 01:13 +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:41:49 -0500
> > "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty <at> vianet.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > > Note also that the description of iceweasel is that it is
> > > lightweight.
> > 
> > Well, I think this can be removed since Iceweasel/Firefox isn't
> > lightweight anymore. 
>
>  I hate to butt in but do you see better behavior and performance from
> say epiphany or galeon or some other browser ?

Since a couple of weeks I'm using a self compiled version of midori
with webkit from svn and a real difference is notable. 

Cheers, 
Frank
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