26 Aug
2004
26 Aug
'04
7:31 p.m.
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
I was impressed myself. At first I didn't think it was a good idea to
put such a heavy browser on this kind of machine, but I tried anyway. I
expected that it would not even be usable. I still remembered the
milestone era of Mozilla, when Mozilla was too slow on my K6-2. But I
tried anyway and I was surprised. I installed Mozilla 1.7.2 without the
mail client, chat client and so on. The 8sec figure is an approximation
I have in my head. I will time it tomorrow.
<mode=nitpicking>
64Gb? Gigabit... i.e. 8GB, on a PI... should be hard to address ;-)
</mode>
Of course, everybody knows you meant 64MB :-)
These kind of errors happen to me too often when I try to type something
fast ;-) Yes, I meant 64 Megabytes ;-)
Access only.
Running WindowMaker with Mozilla is no problem. Loading
time for Mozilla: ~8sec (honestly). The 1.7 series are much faster than
the <= 1.6 ones.
I don't doubt 1.7 is faster than previous versions, but I do seriously
doubt that 8sec figure. I'll accept it, if you had Mozilla started
previously, so that parts may still be in ramdisk/cache somewhere
(even if there's not much of that on a 64MB box - you can still feel
the difference). It has limitations, no doubt. Might I interest you in
w3m instead?
Even if it's for textmode, depending on the version, you can have
proper display of tables, graphics etc.
Anyway, I've found this kind of tools extremely helpful when only
"lesser" machines were available for internet access.
Sometimes, a more primitive browser can have a real advantage. Less
features, less code often also means less bugs and more security. And
dillo is good enough to view most news sites.
Greetings, Patrick