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Topic: FireFox, crashes down my DSL & is slow

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Posted: Sep. 22 2005,21:30

I think in Mehine2's case it is a problem of RAM. Firefox is a known memory hog. Right now, on my machine, Firefox is using 27Mb of RAM. I think something else is going on with your Firefox or maybe even your DSL install if it is crashing, palloco. I have installed DSL on numerous machines (the least of which had 64MB of RAM) and never had a problem with Firefox crashing. I must admit that I am not familiar with Opera, but from what I have read it is much faster than Firefox.

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Posted: Sep. 23 2005,05:35

The original opera6.1.2 UCI extension should work fine on that system.

For some reason, it is no longer listed in the repository. Opera 6.12 is preferred for older computers because it runs faster than the newer Opera versions.

You can still get the opera6.1.2.tar.gz extension from the NET section of the myDSL system, but you should create a swap partition or a swap file or do a full hard drive installation if you want to use this program in tar.gz format and only have 32MB of RAM.

Please read the info file. You should redefine your home page as something else like google.com or www.damnsmalllinux.org because the default Opera page has annoying popups by default.