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Topic: firebird, running too slowly

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John

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Posted: Dec. 03 2003,14:59

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There's another small(650K) and fairly functional browser called browsex that works pretty good

The smallest Browsex 2.x binary I've seen is 3.9M. I can't seem to find the source anywhere.

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Posted: Dec. 03 2003,23:16

I have had the same problem with firebird. I am running DSL on a Toshiba Satellite 225cds with pentium 133 and 32Mb. Of course the smaller browsers run faster because of the lower resource usage. When I used to run win95, IE would run very slowly also due to its size. Firebird is a big app with lots of resource requirements more so than Dillo, Links. Not sure about Opera, but I figure that would run the same as firebird. The drawbacks to dillo and links is they cannot run new java protocols like java 2 which some web sites utilize. If anyone has any ideas of how to add these to links I'd love to hear it.

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Posted: Dec. 04 2003,01:15

On an old computer, I would rank the following speed performance:

Dillo = fastest
Opera 6.12 = fastest full-featured browser
Firebird = slower than Opera 6.12 but still good
Opera 7.22 = much slower due to all the newly added bloatware
Mozilla = slow enough to the point of being unusable

FYI, both Firebird and Opera have built-in javascript support. Full Java support can be added to Opera as a plug-in. Go to their web site for details:

http://www.opera.com/linux/docs/plugins/install/#java

John

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Posted: Dec. 04 2003,03:50

Straying off subject, but I thought Galeon of the Gnome1 days was a very good browser and was more responsive than Firebird.

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Posted: Dec. 05 2003,09:03

On my 32MB RAM 233MMX even Opera 7.22 runs much faster than firebird. I like firebird but just can't wait so long for response, otherwise I would probablz use it. Galeon in older gnome is quite comparable to firebird, very elegant looking and great features, but it requires mozilla to also be installed as it uses mozillas rendering engine. At least firebird stands alone.
Sorry John, you're right about the size on browsex. It unzips to about 9.5 MB. Better in that case ti use Opera. The nice thing about browsex id that it's a single binary, can be run from anywhere without installing. If I had more RAM I would use firebird, even though it still is a bit buggy. But Opera 7.22 also has a good mail client and a pretty good download manager that saves all the info and allows resuming/retransferring of files.
I still think Opera is the best all-round browser for linux.

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