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Posted: Dec. 08 2004,20:00 QUOTE

I too find Firefox slow.  Much slower than Opera.  I had never tried Firefox before DSL 9.0 since I find Opera so well done and fast even on my old laptop.  I could lose both Firefox and Sylpheed since Opera has such a good mail client built in and add Opera and Scite and be happy.

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Posted: Dec. 08 2004,20:08 QUOTE

scite is a .dsl

not gone, just been moved

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Posted: Dec. 09 2004,16:13 QUOTE

Firefox runs great on all machines I have tried it on except for one 200 mhz p2 with only 32 megs of ram, for obvious reasons. My only problems with the included version in .9 is that the extensions don't work and I NEED  my stumbleupon(.com). The gtk2 downlload installs them fine so I am guessing it has something to do with size requirements.

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Posted: Dec. 09 2004,17:33 QUOTE

Firefoz of course cannot run on old machines as fast as dillo or glinks, (which was a very good browser and hope it's out there in the dsl repository).I like it very much I use it daily as my main browser.

Still, the apperance of firefox in dsl has slightly changed one of the aims of the distro, in my opinion.
It was a distro that aimed "to be live" and "to stay under 50" and "to run well on older hardware" AS IS. Now the latest statement isn't true anymore.
It can take ages to start up firefox on a PI 133 i.e.

just my 2 cents

nothing bad or serious. it's stilla a great distro, because you can d/l glinks easily.


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Posted: Dec. 09 2004,19:58 QUOTE

Quote (davide @ Dec. 09 2004,12:33)
Firefoz of course cannot run on old machines as fast as dillo or glinks, (which was a very good browser and hope it's out there in the dsl repository).I like it very much I use it daily as my main browser.

Still, the apperance of firefox in dsl has slightly changed one of the aims of the distro, in my opinion.
It was a distro that aimed "to be live" and "to stay under 50" and "to run well on older hardware" AS IS. Now the latest statement isn't true anymore.
It can take ages to start up firefox on a PI 133 i.e.

just my 2 cents

nothing bad or serious. it's stilla a great distro, because you can d/l glinks easily.

I have to agree with you; it does change the distro.

Firefox must take up quite a bit of space and I probably won't be using it with my old hardware because it takes so long to startup.
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