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Topic: FireFox, Slow to Start

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zmef420

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Posted: Dec. 09 2004,23:09

slow means it still works right? i see where you are coming from but i believe the distro is better off. dilldo is nearly the same as glinks and it was kind of redundant, imo. xmms is great but most folks just want the capability to play music files, why waste space with the extras. i will admit that the new media player could use a few improvements but i can't make them so I'll shut up. firefox adds a lot of functionality that really makes dsl useable for a lot of people.

codestorm

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Posted: Dec. 10 2004,01:00

I guess it depends on what level of *slow* people are willing to endure. I run Firefox on my 200MMX/64MB tinker box at home. Sure it's a dog to start, taking about 15 seconds, and it can take a few second to switch between tabs, but it still renders modern sites a darn sight better than Dillo/gLinks. Also neither Dillo nor gLinks handled password protected areas properly (for my local Smoothwall).

Myself, I'm quite willing to work with that level of lag. What I find more niggling is that Firefox (and I'm sure Opera would too) chews through most of of memory, so I often have to enable swap and take a big perf hit.

Also I find if I leave Firefox running and come back at the end of the day (with no swap), it's tried for too much memory and crapped out.

Even after shutting it down normally xvesa doesn't seem to free up the memory properly from it's use.

Ah well...

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Posted: Dec. 10 2004,01:42

I'm wondering if the Firefox that was added was a .dsl
I mastered in the Firefox 586 build in DSL 0.6.2, and found it
to boot very fast. When I added Firefox to DSL 8x, as a .dsl, then
it got slow. Opera 6.03 was also mastered in, and it started even faster.
I am currently working on remastering Knoppix 3.4, and am now using
icewm instead of KDE. I added Firefox, Scite, and Emelfm, and fixed up
a nifty menu item for the "Set as Wallpaper" feature in Firefox. I can restore my default startup wallpaper, go to a plain light-blue wallpaper, or install the new Firefox_wallpaper.png, an image just saved as wallpaper in Firefox. Found that Firefox starts somewhat slower under Knoppix with icewm than with KDE.

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bluefreak

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Posted: Dec. 10 2004,07:33

do we have a mydsl extension for opera 7? i run opera 7 on windows 98 in my pentium 166, 48mb ram box. its quite snappy. and although it takes quite long to start up, its fast compared to firefox. an opera7 extension would be great.

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